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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
OK genius, let's look at the possibilities of each of those figments of your vivid imagination:
1) A nine year old is going to create a fake boarding pass using an image editor..............???? You really want to believe this?
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All nine year olds aren't stupid. I was editing images for school projects and dabbling in coding in assembly language on the Apple II when I was 9 or 10. Maybe you were stupider, who knows?
I was also really bored with staying in a sleepy beach town with my grandmother one summer when I was about that age. I hopped on a train to New York, changed trains at Amboy, and ended up going to visit my dad at work in NYC
Just about scared the **** out of everybody.
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2) If he picked up a boarding pass that "someone dropped" how the hell did that "someone" get on the airplane?
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They printed another pass at the kiosk -- it's trivial to replace a lost boarding pass, and spent the next half hour arguing with the boarding agent that their pass really wasn't used already. By the time the argument was done, the airline apologized for the computer glitch, and rebooked him on the next flight out, the plane had already taken off.
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3) The nine year old stole a credit card and bought a ticket.
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Why would a 9-yr old knowing how to buy something online with mommy and daddy's credit card be so unlikely? Shopping online is as common in 2013 as going to the store was 20 years ago. Kids are imitative, and parents don't expect their kids to steal their CC.
Obviously it happened -- it's not being reported by just one media outlet. It will be interesting to find out how.