Nvidia Employee Didn't Say "Bomb" on Airplane
A supposed bomb threat on board a flight headed to Hong Kong led to a jailed Nvidia employee.
Silicon Valley's Mercury News reports that a marketing director for Nvidia now faces a misdemeanor charge. Apparently the Nvidia employee told a flight attendant at the San Francisco International Airport he was carrying a bomb in his jacket.
Yushing Lui, 47, denies he said anything in regards to the supposed concealed device.
The bomb incident took place Thursday on a Cathay Pacific Airways plane just before taking off to Hong Kong. Lui was heading back home after a six-month shift here in the States.
While seating himself in the business class section, the flight attendant offered to take his jacket. When asked if he had anything in the jacket, Lui responded by saying "I have a bomb in my jacket."
The flight attendant backed away from the Nvidia marketing director and informed the captain. It's unclear if the attendant took the coat, or left it behind with Lui.
After a quick call, the resident San Francisco Airport Police arrived and examined the coat, however there were no sign of a bomb.
City police thus escorted Lui off the airport premisis and took him to the San Mateo County Jail. Lui denied saying anything about a bomb while under interrogation, but rather "something to the effect that he did not have a million dollars in his pocket," prosecutors said.
Lui was later freed on a $10,000 bail, with a trial scheduled for March 8.
Chief deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told Mercury News that even if Lui was joking about a bomb, such remarks on board an aircraft can lead to prosecution.
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TSA = Rediculous
Absolutely dumb! It sucks he even had to put up bail money.
Sounds like a combination of bad British English + Hong Kong Chinese accent.
Unless he spoke Cantonese, then he's got no excuses.
Unless someone was there to corroborate the attendant's story, I can't see how this man can be prosecuted, or even arrested... man, this is so stupid.
TSA = Rediculous
Not learning to spell is ridiculous.
You know this is why we have to start hiring English speakers here in the US.
I have to work with some people that may as well be telling me they have a bomb in their jacket every time they open their mouthes, cause I can't understand a word of their English.
terrorists win
I got a BOMBay jacket. Hey, why is the plane turning back? This isn't Hong Kong.
Chestnut in Korean is pronounced "Bomb". Maybe he had some in his jacket?
Well now he knows the TSA is no one to be cocky/witty/arrogant with. Flight Security is taken pretty serious in the US, no need to be a smart ass.
Maybe he said, he had a bong??
@symetrixpc: though the TSA has certainly been guilty of following nonsense procedures, the incident you described was actually completely valid from a security point of view.
A mach3 razor blade cannot be used to bring down a plane; it won't break through the reinforced door to the cockpit, and everyone on the plane will restrain you if you try. On the other hand, several items containing more than 3oz of liquid could definitely blow a hole in the fuselage, if they contained high explosives.
Dumb! Really Dumb!
@symetrixpc: though the TSA has certainly been guilty of following nonsense procedures, the incident you described was actually completely valid from a security point of view.A mach3 razor blade cannot be used to bring down a plane; it won't break through the reinforced door to the cockpit, and everyone on the plane will restrain you if you try. On the other hand, several items containing more than 3oz of liquid could definitely blow a hole in the fuselage, if they contained high explosives.
Ignorance is bliss. There are 3 (count them, THREE) razor blades in a Mach 3 razor. If broken, the razor blades can be removed. Now, let's think about what you can do with a sharp object like a razor blade. Cut someone? Hold someone hostage? Threaten to cut their throat? Now you've got a flight attendant hostage, and are ordering the Captain to do what you want before you hurt someone.
So, razor blades have no reason to be on an airplane.
What he said was "I have a bong in my jacket."
a small broken razor blade is a weapon in prison.i did some time in a federal prison 20 years ago.
i was once assualted in the lower east side in nyc by a man who tried to cut my neck with a broken piece of a razor blade.you hold it between two fingers and slash.he slashed my face but didnot take me down.
razors can make a deadly weapon when used that way by the right person you will be dead with a slashed throat on the jugular vein.
But a TSA employee who plants drugs on a passenger as a "joke" gets a free ride as far as the legal system is concerned. Awesome!
"No! No! I said 'my jacket is da bomb!'"
he said "our new video cards will bomb!"
"The flight attendant backed away from the Nvidia marketing director"
"The flight attendant backed away from the Nvidia marketing director"
Nvidia's way of a marketing stunt?
Bad publicity is still publicity...
how do we know he didn't say balm and she is just dumb.
A serious comment? Yes. But I think it could have been resolved without making such a big deal out of it.
What if someone is carriying a comb in the jacket and the flight atttendant misunderstands the passenger ?
I mean "comb" ... "bomb"... it's scary.. you can end up in jail for just wanting to have a nice appeareance.
All these security measures do nothing but placate the public and hassle legitimate airline passengers. I don't feel one bit safer riding on a plane than I did before 9/11 and the new security measures. Here is an example from my own experience: I go to get on the plane but I forgot to pack my larger hygiene items in my checked bag so I had them in my carry on. Among these were my contact solution, my body wash, sunscreen and others. Also in there were my mach 3 razor blades. They confiscated everything that was over the Oz limit which was pretty much everything in my bag. They did however let me keep my mach 3 blades. So now my body wash and sunscreen are dangerous but my razor blades aren't a threat? Go to hell TSA.If a determined individual wanted to get something on that plane that shouldn't be there, it could be done.
The 3oz rule has been in affect forever. It's your own fault for not putting those items in your checked baggage. "legitimate airline passengers" probably rememebered to put that stuff in their checked baggage and are waiting on you because you slowed down the line. If you could even get the blade out of the cartridge you can't bring the plane down with it.
All you people slamming the TSA...love to see you spend one day in their shoes. You'd be crying like baby before the end of the day. I did work for the TSA for 2 years and dealt with the likes of you all the time. Those who didn't complain and did what the signs said moved right through with no issues. I have a feeling you spend a whole lot of time at the security check points when you fly...haha.
you have got to be kidding...flight attendant needs a new job.
I recently boarded a plane, got all the way across the US, then realized that i had left my box knife from work still in my backpack in plain view. This is the same bag that went through a hand check, and xray twice because there were also a spindle of dvd+rw in there.
Looking back on that, my impression is that TSA is a joke.
"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb. Going to arrest me?" - Gaylord Focker.
"All you people slamming the TSA...love to see you spend one day in their shoes. You'd be crying like baby before the end of the day."
No! we are crying like babies now because you people are rude, have no concept of reality and are usually uneducated.
"I did work for the TSA for 2 years and dealt with the likes of you all the time. Those who didn't complain and did what the signs said moved right through with no issues."
Wrong!
"I have a feeling you spend a whole lot of time at the security check points when you fly...haha."
You are a freaking joke! Really pathetic and sad!
TSA agents are usually not very educated. They have no idea of the world and are just plain rude! I have been all around the world many times and America has the absolute worst airport security agents! In some other countries thier security agents carry sub machine guns and they still treat you better than our TSA.
It is sad that I get treated better traveling in other countries than I do traveling in my own...
Our Fermi card are running so hot that they might go off like BOMBs
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