Out of all of the possible jokes to tell while onboard an aeroplane, perhaps the worst have to do with ticking bombs and terrorist threats. Yet, one man in India thought that such humour was a good idea, and found out the hard way that it's not.
An Indian man was kicked from a Mumbai-bound plane after he joked about being a “terrorist” while on-board.
Yogvedant Poddar reportedly covered half of his face with a garment that he had to hand and photographed himself wearing it, writing in the photo's caption: “terrorist on flight, I destroy woman's hearts.”
The rather distasteful gag was noticed by a fellow passenger, who saw the photo and alerted the cabin crew about a possible impending terrorism attack on the Jet Airways flight.
A senior Indian security official is quoted by the Times of India as saying that, “After taking his seat, he covered his face with a handkerchief and started sending WhatsApp messages from his phone. A co-passenger sitting next to Poddar got suspicious given his behaviour of covering the face and read the message Poddar was keying on his phone.”
India's Central Industrial Security Force was subsequently informed and the 21-year-old Mr Poddar was immediately removed from the flight to face interrogation.
In a statement, airport officials said they detained Mr Poddar, who is in his 20s, for “mischievous activity on board” as he was found using language “which was…
