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WCHA Referee gets arrested at airport - Broncodan - 10-16-2012 08:26 AM
Ouch!! Pure stupidity!
"When he isn't getting arrested for making inappropriate jokes about bombs in an airport, Peter Friesema is a referee for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and the Central Hockey League.
Late Saturday night, Freisema was returning from a UAA tournament through Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage. The gate agent accidentally placed Freisema's luggage sticker on his traveling companion's bag, but he was told it was no big deal since they were both headed to the same destination and because the bags were already on the belt.
Then Freisema, 44, did what we all want to do at airports, but undoubtedly know what the repercussions are for doing so; i.e., make a witty, wholly inappropriate joke at the expense of an oversensitive atmosphere.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
What Friesema said next temporarily shut down the airport, forced hundreds of passengers into the cold night air, caused many to miss connections, and landed him in jail. "But my friend's bag has a bomb in it," the agent remembers him saying, according to a charging document. He recounted it to authorities slightly differently, more to the effect of "what if my friend's bag has a bomb in it?"
Either way, his comment was "perhaps an effort to be funny or flirtatious," Assistant District Attorney Adam Alexander said Sunday before Friesema made a court appearance.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/ncaa-hockey-referee-arrested-joke-bomb-alaska-airport-144701251--nhl.html
RE: WCHA Referee gets arrested at airport - bronconick - 10-16-2012 08:40 AM
He's probably hoping his punishment is never having to go to Alaska again.
RE: WCHA Referee gets arrested at airport - Charm City Bronco - 10-16-2012 10:38 AM
(10-16-2012 08:40 AM)bronconick Wrote: He's probably hoping his punishment is never having to go to Alaska again.
Isn't that why the CCHA has refs based in Alaska?