Yes he does. He is!

If it was 1942 and whilst on a train in England you heard someone speaking German you'd be alarmed. Arabic is the language most used by those who wish us harm in 2016. It makes sense that some people will be concerned.

Why? They've all been through the same security to get on the plane. I would have thought the potential plane terrorist would choose not to draw attention to himself rather than sitting being a loud arse.

For some reason this reminds me of that story of the man telling the Asian woman on a train (or bus) to speak English as that's what is spoken in the UK, another woman tells him that she was talking Welsh in fact - which is also spoken in the UK

How many people would recognise Arabic from many other languages spoken around the world, I don't know.

I think the Welsh story may be an urban myth but I get the gist

Is it? I can't even recall where I heard it to be honest

I saw it on Facebook when it copied a letter from a newspaper but you only saw the letter rather than the whole page of the newspaper it was copied from. If it was from Facebook the chance of it being true is pretty low

I have a feeling I read it on here, but whoever posted it probably got it elsewhere.

It's another social media 'news' story funny enough!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...-speak-english

http://lawnewz.com/politics/delta-co...ng-disruptive/

"Delta Concludes From Multiple Witnesses That YouTube Prankster Was Actually Shouting, Disruptive"

No no, I think that there are some serious investigative reporters here on DS that lead their lives right in the firing line, so they can cut as closely to the truth as is possible in this ultra-complex world. And I can't imagine that any non-experts among our illustrious membership would ever just regurgitate lies, convinced that they are the truth. We're better than that.

There's been a few of these stories on US flights this last year.

One (Arabic looking) guy was thrown off for writing 'secret Muslim' messages that the woman in the next seat observed him doing.

Turned out he was a mathematician doing some work...

I'm a fan of adam (im hopefully going to one of his shows next year) Ive heard some bad rumors about delta airlines so he might be telling the truth

When I was travelling on a flight to Holland I heard a man across the aisle from me making loud hacking noises, it sounded as if he was choking.

Turned out he was just speaking Dutch...

I would have punched him for being an obnoxious arsehole and told him to get a proper job.

Ha ha, well, I wouldn't punch anyone who didn't offer violence to someone, but yeah, I'd want to

Not surprised at all. Just another to add to the ever growing list of politically and ideologically motivated hoaxes.

What do these people think they're achieving? Surely they are just selfishly damaging public trust and sympathy for hate crimes by crying wolf so regularly.

Genuine victims are the ones who will suffer.

Sadly, there are quite a lot of people who are only too happy to continue popularising these hoaxes even after they've been disproved, or simply ignore them altogether, because they wish to maintain their preferred narrative.

If anything, it's just further proof that many of those who claim to be so opposed to discrimination and hate crimes are actually primarily motivated by politics and ideology rather than any genuine compassion, since they're prepared to overlook the hoaxes that damage their cause so readily.

Have you really? Might he really?
You sound like the president of the jerk's fan club, an impressionable 15 y.o.
As a counter to the rumours you allege to have heard, I regularly fly Delta from London Gatwick to Tampa FL., switching planes at their Atlanta GA hub.
In addition I occasionally fly Delta from London Heathrow to JFK.
The only possible complaint that I can raise, is that their flight attendants are not always the 25-35 y.o. glamour models that they used to be when I first flew Delta, but there again, I'm not a Ryan Reynolds look-a-like any more, and I have grizzle in my whiskers, and silvery streaks at the sides of my hair.

Will it be as hysterical as this stunt was?

Oh how we larfed.

How can these hilarious pranksters do a show? I thought the whole idea was that it was supposed to look like a real event.

I guess the show will probably be a meet up in a busy shopping centre and his act will consist of pulling out a (fake) knife, grabbing hold of a complete stranger and running away while screaming threats. Then when armed police arrest him he'll only post that part of the video and claim brutality and harassment of an innocent man out shopping.

Seriously though it's only a matter of time before one of these internet pranksters is either killed or badly injured by either the police or a passing hero thinking somebody is in danger.

Yet you repeat is as if it's true.

Hi Adam

I believe I said 'it reminds me of the story'. I didn't say it was a true story - although I believed it to be so, which is why I said 'Is it?' when I was told it may be an urban myth.

See the link in Post #33