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NVIDIA marketing director arrested for bomb scare on plane

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NVIDIA marketing director Yushing Lui, 47, is facing a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly pulled a bomb prank on a flight attendant on a Cathay Pacific Airways plane before takeoff Thursday at San Francisco International Airport. Lui pleaded not guilty, claiming he only told the flight attendant "something to the effect that he did not have a million dollars inside" the jacket.
Lui had taken his seat in the business class section on board an aircraft headed to Hong Kong, where he lives with his family, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
As a flight attendant was taking Lui's jacket, she asked whether it had anything important in the pockets, to which he replied: "I have a bomb in my jacket," prosecutors said.
The flight attendant backed away and the flight crew on board called San Francisco Airport Police, which immediately responded and did not find a bomb.
Perhaps it was a GeForce 470 or 480 ? Heard they are the bomb as well ;)
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source :- http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-marketing-director-arrested-for-bomb-scare-on-plane/


O dear :D
 
These days you would have to be a moron to joke about a terrorist activity anywhere near a plane, let alone an American one.

Unless of course you enjoy the internal cavity searches :D
 
Further facts have now come to light, the air stewardess reported the passenger to the Police as acting very sli before he made the bomb comment. Mr. Lui was subjected to an internal body cavity inspection where Police did extract two GeForce 470 graphics cards!!! ;-)
 
So a high up in nvidia thought it was a good idea to make bomb jokes on a plane in the current climate explains a lot about how they make some of the silly business decisions.
 
mmj_uk said:
Another silly overreaction to a simple joke.

RIP humour. :p
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Would you be best pleased if someone "joked" they had a bomb whilst you were about to take off on a long haul flight?

Quite frankly it has nothing to do with humour, the one time it gets dismissed as a joke people may not live to laugh about it!

And furthermore police would need to remove him to check his possesions and do background checks and damn right he should be charged with something. What a completely idiotic thing to do, especially whilst we live under the constant threat of terrorist attack! And anyone who disagrees needs to pull their head out of their arse and join the real world!
 
welshdragon said:
Would you be best pleased if someone "joked" they had a bomb whilst you were about to take off on a long haul flight?

Quite frankly it has nothing to do with humour, the one time it gets dismissed as a joke people may not live to laugh about it!

And furthermore police would need to remove him to check his possesions and do background checks and damn right he should be charged with something. What a completely idiotic thing to do, especially whilst we live under the constant threat of terrorist attack! And anyone who disagrees needs to pull their head out of their arse and join the real world!
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This.
 
welshdragon said:
Would you be best pleased if someone "joked" they had a bomb whilst you were about to take off on a long haul flight?

Quite frankly it has nothing to do with humour, the one time it gets dismissed as a joke people may not live to laugh about it!

And furthermore police would need to remove him to check his possesions and do background checks and damn right he should be charged with something. What a completely idiotic thing to do, especially whilst we live under the constant threat of terrorist attack! And anyone who disagrees needs to pull their head out of their arse and join the real world!
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tbh I find it quite funny really but thats just me..
Why live with being scared of what could happen, live happy with what hasn't happened..

I take it you've never heard of/watch a program known as Mock the Week then or more specifically Frankie Boyle ;)
 
Hilarious, poor guy is just probably stressed and over worked, thinking up all these strange naming & re-naming schemes takes some effort, no wander he exploded with such bombastic statement :)
 
There is nothing funny about bomb jokes on a plane and anyone that thinks there is should watch the news more often. for someone in his position to do it shows complete idiocy and stupidity and should get him some action from nvidia as it was simoply a stupid thing to do and completely unnessecary.
 
Leezy said:
tbh I find it quite funny really but thats just me..
Why live with being scared of what could happen, live happy with what hasn't happened..

I take it you've never heard of/watch a program known as Mock the Week then or more specifically Frankie Boyle ;)
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I don't "live in fear" at all far from it, but I do not find the mention of a bomb on a plane funny in the slightest, nor would I just sit back and think "O he's probably jokin" and "live happy for an hour or two knowing I couldn't be bothered to challenge it cause I saw the potential tasteless humour" while the guy quietly ignites a bomb and sends the plane hurtling to the ground.

What's that quote.."the price of freedom is eternal vigilence...."

Additionally to find humour in what is, until checked and verified as false, a potential terrorist attack, when so many people lose their lives each year around the world to terrorism is quite frankly frightening! Not to mention every single passenger on that plane has also probably been inconvenienced through a delay in take off (with a knock on effect of other planes wanting to land being delayed) just because some moron found it funny to make a careless throwaway comment!
 
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