FLIGHT ATTENDANT MISTAKES RANDOM PASSENGER FOR AIR MARSHALL

William Stratton was on a Frontier flight from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona when the flight attendant said, “Sir, here is the rest of your boarding pass,” and handed him a cocktail napkin. The top of it had seat numbers 10F and 13F and at the bottom, it said “other armed passengers.” The flight attendant had mistaken Stratton for an air marshal, and the note indicated there were two other law enforcement officers who were on the plane with guns. It’s a standard procedure to notify air marshals of other armed passengers on board. Mr. Stratton told the flight attendant, “Ma’am; this wasn’t intended for me,” and the attendant just said “‘Oh god,’ and that was it,” according to Stratton.
* Then the real air marshal handcuffed the flight attendant to a door handle so she wouldn’t screw up again.
* He should have parlayed that note into a bump up to first class.
* He also told the rest of the passengers to “not mess with the guys in 10F and 13F.”
* Now the bad news: It was one of the pilot’s cocktail napkins.
* This is a standard secret procedure – or at least it used to be ’til this happened.
* By the way: Nice of the passenger to tell the press. Thanks a lot, you jerk.
* You can almost hear the memo going out to terrorist groups around the world.
* Wait, the government has an acronym for everything, right? How come they didn’t code this instead of spelling out “other armed passengers”?