Let's start with that ticket he bought. At $900, it was almost certainly ONE-WAY. How did he plan to get home?
And he will get some amount of fame and applause for this, which means some other idiot(s) will follow his lead . . . and possibly not fare as well.
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quote:Farris Hassan says he thinks a trip to the Middle East is a healthy vacation compared with a trip to Colorado for holiday skiing.
"You go to, like, the worst place in the world and things are terrible," he said. "When you go back home you have such a new appreciation for all the blessing you have there, and I'm just going to be, like, ecstatic for life."
His mother, however, sees things differently.
"I don't think I will ever leave him in the house alone again," she said.
I'd have seriously grounded him, too.
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The part that made me think "twit" was him complaining about the taxi fare. I mean, trying to take a taxi from Kuwait to Baghdad, turning around and going back, and then whining that the fare was high. Twit.
The rest of the story, yeah, way past twitdom.
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This reminds me of that episode of Malcom in the Middle in which Reese joins the military and gets deployed in the Middle East. His mother goes after him and brings him home.
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Incredible. He used money his parents gave him? Why would they give thousands of dollars to a 16 year old boy in the first place? They all sound pretty stupid.
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Maybe he told them it was to buy a car or something. Its incredible what people in my age group, except for me, can get away with.
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quote: His mother goes after him and brings him home.
Mothers do worry a lot. Mine worried for me so much when I was deployed in 2001-2002 that half the deployment was over before she finally started to accept my being out there wasn't as dangerous as she thought. That is except when we pulled into a port of call.
If it were my son (if I had one) ..... he'd have to consider himself lucky that I'd let him live after pulling a stunt like that.
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I heard that the boy used money that he had in an account of his own. He had this account at a stockbroker and had filled it with his own money that he had made by trading in the stockmarket. Did anyone else hear this?
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If he spent so much time planning out the intricacies of financing his little furlough, why didn't he consider doing a little more planning, or bother to learn some Arabic? I'm amazed he didn't end of on al jazeera with a significant loss of neckage.
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