Comments on: Cash Cab http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2008/12/cash-cab/ A Blog of Musings and Mockery Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: just pixels http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2008/12/cash-cab/comment-page-1/#comment-3212 just pixels Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:53:10 +0000 http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/?p=489#comment-3212 There is already a air travel version of this taking place right under our noses. To get on a plane you must answer certain trivia questions correctly. Like: "Has anyone other than yourself had access to your luggage?" The best episodes are when people are taken off the plane where they happen to be. Like the Muslim-looking family overheard discussing which seats are safest. Ha, ha! That so easy: The safest seats on on airlines without future martyrs on board. Anyway, they got kicked off. The airline apologized later, probably by giving the family some free tickets. So they won by losing (their seats). This could lead to people "gaming" the paranoia. Grow a beard, wear an Osama bin Laden T-shirt, talk -- say -- how itchy your new shoes are, or how airplanes bring people closer to heaven, etc. BAM! airline kicks you off, then apologizes with free tickets. There is already a air travel version of this taking place right under our noses. To get on a plane you must answer certain trivia questions correctly. Like: “Has anyone other than yourself had access to your luggage?”

The best episodes are when people are taken off the plane where they happen to be. Like the Muslim-looking family overheard discussing which seats are safest. Ha, ha! That so easy: The safest seats on on airlines without future martyrs on board. Anyway, they got kicked off. The airline apologized later, probably by giving the family some free tickets. So they won by losing (their seats).

This could lead to people “gaming” the paranoia. Grow a beard, wear an Osama bin Laden T-shirt, talk — say — how itchy your new shoes are, or how airplanes bring people closer to heaven, etc. BAM! airline kicks you off, then apologizes with free tickets.

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