...he said he had a bomb in his bag. Or did he?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

This is my guess: due to his mental illness, he suddenly became convinced that there was a bomb on the plane. At some point he said something to that effect, and the Marshal thought he was claiming that he had the bomb.

When I moved in to my new office building at the beginning of the year, there was a brief period where everyone, including me, was inspecting the new digs.

There is a rooftop deck on this building, with some nice benches and tables where you can eat lunch and look at the views of DC. To get there, you have to use a particular elevator. We have 8 elevators, and I wasn't sure which one to take to get to the roof top terrace.

I went up the the concierge guy in the lobby and said. "I understand there's a terrace on the roof. How do I get up there?" He got this weird panicked look on his face and really scrutinized me. He actually looked afraid. I repeated myself, since he wasn't answering my question. Turns out he thought I was telling him there was a terrorist on the roof. This was a week before Bush was going to have an inauguration party across the street, and my building had apparently received a visit from the Secret Service in advance.

He was nervous, and looking for things that weren't there.

We live in interesting times.