“Police issued a statement Tuesday evening saying the suspicious package ‘has been identified as an electronic device commonly known as an iPod’…”
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6a11bd67-f717-4aa3-80a9-840c07949730&k=28503
I’d love to have been a fly on the wall for this one…
“Hey boss, I found an iPod nano inside an iPod sock in the bathroom. What should we do?”
“Call in the dogs! Turn the plane around! Alert the media!”
“But boss, it’s just an iPod nano. Why don’t I just plug my own iPod’s earbuds into it and make sure it can really play music, and then we’ll know that it’s just an iPod and we don’t have to pointlessly disrupt the lives of everyone on this plane.”
“No, it’s got to be a bomb! It’s just got to be! There can’t be any other explanation!”
“Gee boss, I don’t know, this new Chili Peppers album I’m listening to on this iPod I found in the bathroom sounds pretty groovy. I don’t think it’s a bomb, chief.”
“Of course it’s a bomb. Land this plane immediately, and get some bomb-sniffing dogs on this plane! And no, you in seat 34B, you can’t borrow the iPod that we found in the bathroom just because you want to hear what the new Chili Peppers album sounds like. Don’t you understand that that iPod is clearly a bomb? I can hear it ticking from here!”
“Uh boss, that’s actually just the part in the Chili Peppers song ‘Charlie’ where the lyrics go ‘tick tick tick tick.’ It’s not a bomb, it’s just a funky song.”
“So you’re admitting that you can hear the bomb going ‘tick tick tick tick’ and yet you’re still trying to stand in the way of me calling in the bomb squad.”
“Boss, it’s just the lyric to a song! This is not a bomb, it’s a four gigabyte black iPod nano with 720 songs on it, of which strangely enough, 719 of them are Chili Peppers songs.”
“So you agree, then, that there is indeed something suspicious going on here!”
“No, I think the owner of this iPod just has a thing for bootleg recordings.”
“Aha, illegal activity!”
“Boss, I don’t know what to say.”
“You’re fired, kid. Clearly you don’t have what it takes to know a security threat when you see one. We’re landing this plane immediately. You’ve got one hour to clean out your locker. And while you’re packing your things, get me the phone numbers for CNN and Fox News. We have to alert the media! We’ve found a bomb on this plane!”
“Fine, I quit anyway. Just one thing, though.”
“What, kid?”
“Can I keep this iPod I found in the bathroom? It’s got some really great music on it…”
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