Dumb Joke, Dumber Air Passenger

Not smart.

Travelers were evacuated from a Los Angeles International Airport terminal for about two hours Sunday afternoon after a passenger joked about explosives in his checked luggage, officials said.

Airport police shut down the Southwest and U.S. Airways terminal around 2 p.m., delaying at least 450 passengers on five planes, said Albert Rodriguez, a spokesman for Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that operates LAX.

By 4 p.m., passengers were allowed back into the building and operations were running as normal, he said.

The unidentified man, who joked to another passenger about explosives in his checked luggage, was detained after he exited Southwest Flight 1182 from El Paso, Texas, Rodriguez said.

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[seekeronos]

I reckon that this Mr. Jokey... Joke-maker guy has been disappeared down the Homeland Security apparatus not to be seen or heard from for a long time to come.