Yesterday I was flying home to Los Angeles from New York City (actually, the Newark, NJ airport). And whilst in flight, I saw on CNN that some passenger on another flight (this one flying into Newark from Hong Kong) started ranting and raving about how he was a very important person who knew too much that could hurt the United States, and that as a result, the CIA was trying to kill him. He had to be restrained. No comment, though, on why such a person would be flying to the United States, home of the CIA. (Maybe it's because of our freedom, and the fact that the CIA does not kill people in America?)
A few flight attendants congregated around my seat as I was watching this story on the little TV set on the seat back in front of me, and they asked me what the reporter was saying, so I told them, and they remarked that the plane in question was from the same airline carrier we were flying, etc.
In a surprising turn of events, while the CIA would not confirm nor deny an effort to kill this man, they did state that even if his claims were true, he didn't have to be such a pansy about it, and that they kill terrorists around the world with the drone program, but that you never hear those people whining about it to everybody. Plus, now they say they're insulted that he would slander them like that, and so you never know, now they might just decide to knock him off for that reason, or perhaps even so that people won't think he's just some kind of dishonest attention-seeker and then think badly of him as a result.
(Just kidding in that last paragraph! And in this case, I think the initials CIA stand for: "Crazy In Airplane".)
BTW: When I first heard this story on CNN yesterday, my initial reaction was to joke that this must be that NSA leaker guy Edward Snowden, and that he obviously got plastic surgery, but he fell asleep on the plane back from Hong Kong, forgot, and panicked about it when he woke up.
