A Tennessee doctor was arrested in Seattle on July 25, 2007 for calling 911 from a pay phone at the Sea-Tac Airport to say “Flight 980 Memphis. There may be a bomb on board”.
After his arrest, Kou Wei Chiu, 31, of Bellevue, Tenn., admitted to calling 911 3 times in an attempt to stop his flight from leaving without him. Apparently, he was not seeing results from his calls so he kept calling 911.
From the AP article on Forbes.com:
“After his first phone call, he looked outside at the plane and saw that his call had had ‘no effect,’” FBI agent Gary France wrote. “He made a second phone call and noticed that this call too had no effect. This led to the third call.
“Chiu stated that he made the calls thinking that the airline ‘would ground the plane for a couple of hours,’ because bomb threats are taken seriously. When asked how he thought other passengers might react when they overheard his calls, he conceded that he thought ‘they would be traumatized,’” the affidavit said.
I have missed several flights do to poor timing, but for some reason the thought of calling in a bomb threat has never crossed my mind.
So, what the hell was this guy thinking?
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