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This is what happens when guns are banned!
SA hijacker 'armed with inhaler'
A man accused of trying to hijack a plane flying from Botswana to South Africa was only armed with an asthma inhaler and lip balm, SABC radio says.
He allegedly tried to force his way into the cockpit of the Air Botswana plane and threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying.

Police spokesman Vish Naidoo said the would-be hijacker was "armed with two items but they posed no real threat."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6291879.stm

My God, he had lip balm! Had he got into the cockpit, he could have moisturised the pilot's lips!

My God, he had lip balm! Had he got into the cockpit, he could have moisturised the pilot's lips!

Don't make light of the situation - he could have used the lip balm to lubricate the aeroplane's controls, causing it to fall to its doom as the crew failed to get a hold on the situation!

Don't make light of the situation - he could have used the lip balm to lubricate the aeroplane's controls, causing it to fall to its doom as the crew failed to get a hold on the situation!

He could've lubricated the pilot's joystick? :D

Don't make light of the situation - he could have used the lip balm to lubricate the aeroplane's controls, causing it to fall to its doom as the crew failed to get a hold on the situation!

I read the word 'lubricate' which elicits a giggle from me, regardless of the context.

This is what happens when guns are banned!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6291879.stm

My God, he had lip balm! Had he got into the cockpit, he could have moisturised the pilot's lips!

Hey at least the world's safer, terrorists will be trying lip balm and maybe balloons or some ridiculas yet harmless item to kill us instead of TNT and Ak-47s.