There’s a story in the papers here in the UK about a girl who was put in prison in Florida for telling the security people at Miami Airport who were screening her luggage to “be careful, because I have three bombs in there.”

From what I gather from the reports, the security guard, seeing that this was a very white, very middle class and very British (not to mention apparently very stupid) girl, pretended not to hear and asked her to repeat herself.

Now you and I at this point (forgetting for the moment that you and I wouldn’t have been daft enough to get to this point in the first place) would have realised that we’d done something a bit daft and would have shut up.

But did the woman in question shut up?

No. She repeated herself not once but twice. And wonders why she went to prison.