must have smelled so bad

Flight was too heavy

I mean, a 12 year old is more likely than not to name a cylindrical boombox a 'bomb' and forget about it. Hopefully a sincere apology will suffice instead of a ban or criminal charges.

Often (cheap) Bluetooth devices can't be renamed, can they?

Besides apparently there are even speakers that are named "bomb" straight from the factory. Both this speaker here, that some say is the one the teenager used and even a hama speaker with the default Bluetooth name "Hama bomb 3.0".

Sorry, but when someone can even buy speakers named bomb from a reputable company, you can't really blame some teenager. Supposedly (according to what I read) the speakers weren't in the carry-on and turned themselves on accidentally. Even a stupid teenager who wanted to do this as a prank probably would have gotten cold feet the moment the announcement came and shut the device off if they could, so I don't think it is impossible to have happened this way.

Could have been a prank played on a passenger who had no idea, I hope.

I like the use of the phrase "forced to turn around." They chose to turn around because somebody had a string of letters on their bluetooth name that they didn't feel comfortable with. WTF would they do with a passenger in a Che Guevara T shirt?

8hz_wan_ip

Also wise to spray paint it on your luggage, just so they know.

My mother used to have a Bluetooth speaker in our car that she took with her. It wasn't deliberately shaped that way, but with the silhouette, the color, and the volume it produced, we ended up dubbing it 'the hand grenade'.

After the hand grenade finally broke, my mother got a nice JVC speaker, a long cylinder. It was promptly named 'the pipe bomb'.

For context, my mother is the most bland, inoffensive Midwest Christian white lady you will ever meet. She has an unusual sense of humor that comes out in the strangest ways. She laughed her ass off all the way through the FNAF games because she thought the animatronics were funny.

I think the TSA just hates people with a personality, period.

Bomb

Loss

"lmao"?

While the recording does not explicitly confirm the speculation that the Bluetooth name in question was “bomb,” it would certainly make sense given the response from the crew and security personnel on the ground.

Try naming it "Fuck ICE" and see what happens . . . or don't, because for whatever reason the special snowflakes of that criminal org get really pissy when members of the public offer them honest and heartfelt feedback.

Did you ever see that youtube video from like 2 decades ago where the woman is standing up on the airplane while everyone else is seated, (and looking annoyed), while she waves her arms around yelling "THIS MAN FARTED!!! THIS MAN FARTED WHILE SEATED RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!! WE'RE SO CLOSE OUR ELBOWS TOUCHED BRIEFLY!!! HE FARTED!!! THAT WAS NOT ME THAT FARTED!!!"

And everybody else is just looking at her like "Lady....shut the fuck up".

There are some youtube videos I wish I saved. Thats one.

Thanks, O-bomb-a.

You go to prison?

Its a transatlantic flight, new york origin is probably still the closest airport that can handle the larger plane.