WCHA official Friesema's comment about bomb lands him in jail, closes airport

Yesterday, we found out that if you make a comment about having a bomb in your suit case while you’re checking in at any airport – you’ll probably cause an airport to be immediately evacuated and people’s flights to be delayed.

What started out as joke – ended up blowing up and going viral on the Internet.

Also, it doesn’t matter if you’re joking or not, the TSA and the Airport police probably will not think that it’s very funny and you will probably be led away from the airport in handcuffs – you’ll also miss your flight and end up in a jail cell until you court appearance.

Early Sunday morning, WCHA on ice official Peter Friesema was charged with making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct after he made an ill-advised comment about having a bomb in his check-in luggage.

More specifically, Friesema in an attempt to be funny made a comment about his friend’s bag having a bomb in it after a gate agent from Alaska Airlines put the wrong bag tag on his checks luggage. As most of us know from flying post 9-11, an airport is the wrong place to make a comment like this.

Lisa Demer and Richard Mauer, Anchorage Daily News --- "But my friend's bag has a bomb in it," the agent remembers him [Frieseman] 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.

Developing... The WCHA will release a press release about the status of their on ice official Peter Friesema later in the day.