Up in the Air

Adams insists that they "have no information…that there is widespread probing of any of our commercial aircraft. However, we would be in the wrong business…to think that there's a possibility that it's not taking place."

Possibility versus probability: Congress didn't want to dance around this one, and launched an inquiry into "security gaps" aboard aircraft following Jacobsen's story. And untrained eyes or not, Jacobsen's account, backed up by other passengers and by the facts of the case, persuaded Congress that perhaps the Federal Air Marshals weren't quite as on top of things as they'd like to think.

Al Cameron

The McDonald's bag went into the airplane restroom full and came out empty.

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Two men get on a plane and go to the bathroom together.

Let's all pray they're gay.