Don't simply say "BOMB"

I read this news item from News Strait Times.

At any airport or aircraft, don't ever say the word "bomb". It could lend you in jail for life or in serious trouble.

MAHB operation services senior general manager Datuk Azmi Murad:
"He strongly advised passengers not to make indiscriminate remarks about bombs at any airport or while travelling in any aircraft, anywhere in the world, to avoid getting into trouble."

Now check the following ....
It was learned that a Malaysian women who was returning from Jeddah, several months ago, was jailed for three months for telling the steward that "It is not like I have a bomb in my bag", when a flight steward asked her why her bag was so heavy.

The woman served her sentence in Singapore as the offence was said to have been committed at the Changi International Airport.

Azmi said recently, a passenger in Sibu, Sarawak, had his luggage blown up by airport security after he jokingly told them he had a bomb in his bag.

Another reported incident took place in Sydney where a pilot was let off with a serious warning when he noted to his co-pilot at the security-screening counter that his spectacles case looked like a tiny bomb.

Warnings like, "Dangerous four-letter word: Do not utter the word bomb in the airport at checkpoints" as well as "Do not use the word bomb even for private conversations in airport although the law only applies to saying it in public, particularly to security officers", have been placed at many airports worldwide.