Egypt plane hijacked

FTM · 30 Mar 2016 at 08:37

dowie said:
Why is it utterly stupid? He's generated some rapport with his captor/hijacker - something that combat after capture training tends to encourage (though to be fair posing for a selfie wasn't specifically in the lessons I had).

If it was real and the guy wanted to detonate it then they're a bit screwed anyway, being friendly isn't really an issue - if the 'bomber' was angry/tense etc.. he'd not have been able to approach him in the first place.

this..they had a good inkling he wasnt a suicide bomber by the fact that he hadnt blown the plane up when it was in the air..so the chances were good he wasnt intent on killing everyone

after that, we dont know what was actually said on the plane. the hijacker looks pretty calm and perhaps the passengers didnt feel threatened, or he had made assurances to them..we just dont know

maybe he had explained what he was doing and so they felt comfortable approaching him.

until we know all the facts its seems rash to condemn him

but he doesnt look worried in the photo so you can only assume they knew what was going on at that point

cheesyboy · 30 Mar 2016 at 09:29

G-MAN2004 said:
A passenger took a selfie with the hijacker, which doesn't surprise me at all these days. Why would you not punch the guy instead though?

Heh

LAD

beachBOYken · 30 Mar 2016 at 11:36

DJMK4 said:
Guy has some gigantic balls

Utterly utterly stupid though and he should defenatly be made an example of

I think it's quite obvious he knew and all the other hostages knew it was fake by this point. He likely told them all before he gave himself up.

antijoke · 30 Mar 2016 at 11:41

G-MAN2004 said:
A passenger took a selfie with the hijacker, which doesn't surprise me at all these days. Why would you not punch the guy instead though?

Top kek.

Mr^B · 30 Mar 2016 at 12:37

That's not a selfie.

thecremeegg · 30 Mar 2016 at 12:55

Yea not a selfie but anyway - don't see the problem tbh, if anything it was probably a good thing to do.
If he was going to blow them up then it makes no difference, if he didn't then it's a good story!

Dirk Diggler · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:22

Mr^B said:
That's not a selfie.

A phone has no dial but we still say we're going to dial a number. It's how language evolves.

FTM · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:24

I still say I am going to tape something when setting the sky+ box to record something

uvarvu · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:31

Ignore

Elrein · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:35

They should have known it was a hoax....

No beard

And to do that over a woman, lol he should have blown himself up out of respect for the rest of the human population :/

Mr^B · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:48

String said:
A phone has no dial but we still say we're going to dial a number. It's how language evolves.

No, the word "selfie" didn't evolve/derive from something else (like dialing a number), it was created specifically for a recent (and very specific) type of photograph. This isn't language evolving, it's someone not understanding what a word means and then using it incorrectly.

This is, in fact, called a "photo", or perhaps "photograph".

Gilly · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:54

It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but Mr^B is absolutely right. That's not a selfie as he hasn't taken it himself. If you couldn't see his left arm then it could have been a selfie on a long selfie stick, but it's not. It's just a photo.

FTM said:
I still say I am going to tape something when setting the sky+ box to record something

Me too, but I wouldn't say I was going to take a selfie and get the camera out to take a picture of my friend...

Chris Wilson · 30 Mar 2016 at 13:59

He should have had his mum iron his shirt if he's going for self aggrandisement

wolfie138 · 30 Mar 2016 at 14:01

String said:
A phone has no dial but we still say we're going to dial a number. It's how language evolves.

calling it a selfie isn't evolving, it's using an incorrect term.
dialling etc is just a holdover from decades of having to do that, it's not evolving either.

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2016 at 14:01

I didn't notice his arm to be fair. Apologies, I'm cool and know the lingo really.

Dirk Diggler · 30 Mar 2016 at 14:11

Mr^B said:
No, the word "selfie" didn't evolve/derive from something else (like dialing a number), it was created specifically for a recent (and very specific) type of photograph. This isn't language evolving, it's someone not understanding what a word means and then using it incorrectly.

This is, in fact, called a "photo", or perhaps "photograph".

Of course it evolved, else it would be called a photograph.

It was called a selfie because it's a photograph taken of oneself, by oneself. It has now evolved further to mean a photo taken of oneself (usually close up), regardless of who took it.

Washout · 30 Mar 2016 at 14:17

I believe he said they did it to take a closer look at the belt. Would have been tempting to try to grab the blokes hands and hope to god someone else helps but don't think you'd be able to board a plane with cajones that size.
Plus you'd feel quite daft if you did, look over your shoulder and everyone has run off to the other side of the plane (understandably!).

Amp34 · 30 Mar 2016 at 18:18

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/03/29...-wives-urged-condemn-egyptair-plane-hijacker/

The formerly “married man” had been holding seven people hostage aboard an EgyptAir plane after forcing it to divert to Larnaca airport in Cyprus, before demanding to speak to his ex-wife who lives on the island.

“In the wake of the hijacking in Cyprus we urge all sane men capable of having a civilised conversation with their former spouses to publicly denounce their own kind,” said a spokesman for the government.

“For too long men who don’t resort to making fake bomb jackets and hijacking planes just to speak to their ex-wives have remained silent. That silence has now become deafening.”

“Now we demand that even men capable of using the phone or email to speak to their estranged wives speak up against those who prefer to chuck letters out of hijacked planes.”

sigma · 30 Mar 2016 at 20:04

Gold ^