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DFP<\/a>: Bomb threat on a Spirit Airlines flight in Detroit forces evacuation<\/span><\/p>\n I just want to start off with, I understand that bomb threats are no laughing matter, and good on all airline, airport, local and county personnel and authorities for doing the right thing and evacuating everyone and ensuring that all was green.<\/span><\/p>\n But I just feel like given the combination of circumstances, location, time, and nature of people who are flying Spirit Airlines, there\u2019s probably some critical context missing from this story that probably leads to everything being one gigantic misunderstanding.<\/span><\/p>\n First of all, this happened in Detroit, which is one of the saddest and most depressing places in the country that I\u2019d ever been to.\u00a0 It\u2019s a blue-collar place with a feeling of defiance of defeat in the actual city itself, and much like airports like Atlanta, Dulles, the airport is located way the fuck far away from the actual city proper and are the only things that stretch the city zone maps to retain the name.<\/span><\/p>\n Did you also know that Detroit has the highest concentration of Middle Eastern immigrants in the country?\u00a0 This was news to me when I first was told this factoid, but then when I was on the prowl for as many Tim Horton\u2019s locations as I could find, I found one inside of a Middle Eastern grocery store, and I realized such factoid was probably right.\u00a0 Somewhere in this paragraph is the unfortunate stereotypical parallel between painting those of Middle Eastern descent or appearance with bomb threats on airplanes, and my mind assumes that this could\u2019ve been one of those Harold and Kumar<\/em> moments<\/a> where someone might have seen a brown-skinned person on the plane and lost their shit, leading to this whole debacle.<\/span><\/p>\n Second, most everyone knows the jokes, memes and stereotypes that go along with Spirit Airlines.\u00a0 I\u2019ve flown with them more than I care to admit, because it\u2019s hard to ignore a $97 RT versus a $397 RT on Southwest or Delta for a 90 minute flight, so I\u2019m quite well aware of them myself on a first-hand experience.\u00a0 Unruly, loud, hostile, and other pejoratives to describe the people who fly on Spirit Airlines, it wouldn\u2019t be a far stretch to imagine the word \u201cbomb\u201d being muttered by any of these folks, regardless of the context, but as the FAA and TSA and whatever government agencies have conditioned us, bomb is bomb, and when the tragic word is whispered, shouted, muttered, uttered or screamed, all systems come to a halt, and the authorities are sent in.<\/span><\/p>\n Third, check the time of when the incident was reported \u2013 7 am.\u00a0 Which means that this flight was boarding at like 6:15 am, which means people have been at the airport since like 5 am or earlier, and I don\u2019t care who you are, when you\u2019re on that crack ass of dawn flight, there\u2019s a way higher chance than normal that you\u2019re not going to be in a good mood.\u00a0 Now multiply that being in Detroit, and flying with Spirit Airlines, and you\u2019ve got an entire aircraft full of extra ornery motherfuckers who are well past beyond edge, and somewhere along all these circumstances the word bomb popped out, and then all shit hit the fan.<\/span><\/p>\n Again, kudos to all those involved in security and operations for following protocol and ensuring the safety of everyone on the flight and in the airport.\u00a0 But given all the moving parts and variables in this situation, I can\u2019t help but feel like there probably is a whole lot of things that were taken out of context and lead to a wholly excessively unnecessary scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DFP: Bomb threat on a Spirit Airlines flight in Detroit forces evacuation I just want to start off with, I understand that bomb threats are no laughing matter, and good on all airline, airport, local and county personnel and authorities for doing the right thing and evacuating everyone and ensuring that all was green. 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