On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:58:02 -0800, "4000 psi"
wrote:

a passenger sitting next to you is nervously pushing a button inside his
coat pocket or is trying to light the soul of his shoe on fire in an
apparent attempt to blow the aircraft to pieces ... i mean is it acceptable
etiquette to employ a karate chop to the neck or a roundhouse kick to the
head ... please advise?!

Received wisdom is to do the same thing yourself. If s/he is
fooling, s/he will become worried about you. If you are both genuine
- well the statistical chances of there being _two_ miscreants on the
same aircraft is so small that ......

(From the story about the statistics professor ... )
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