Two "Asian" lads who "wanted a bit of fun."

The UK Daily Mail is up in arms about two "Asian" (ie Muslim) youths thrown off an international flight plane when several passengers refused to fly with them. The Independent makes clear the lads' oceans of graciousness; the boys beg people not to be paranoid about Muslims, and one adds,

The Daily Mirror

writes, "We might be Asian, but we're two ordinary lads who wanted a bit of fun."

Curiously, the story makes no mention--none--about what the gentlemen's idea of "a bit of fun" might be. Nor is their any mention in any of the 47 comments on the Mirror story, one of which sniffs that he wouldn't fly that particular airline anymore, "Because they might not like Scottish people."

Count on Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs to unearth the root of the panic. Money quote:

It was then, (one passenger) said, that his wife Susanne began talking to another passenger who said she had sat next to the two men.

“She said she had heard them saying it was the last 30 minutes of their lives,” said Mr Wearden.

Ha ha ha ha ha! What fun.