Fake bomb threats are usually the kind of story where a stranger did something insane in an airport and you shake your head and move on. This one's got a twist that made me laugh out loud, then feel a little sick. Police say the man, 47, American, was arguing with airline staff at Hong Kong International over his son's checked luggage. Didn't like what he was hearing. So he told them there was a bomb in the bag. That's it. That's the whole plan.

Here's the thing nobody needs explained to them but I'll explain it anyway: airports do not have a sense of humor about this. You say "bomb," even as a tantrum, even as the dumbest possible move in an argument about a suitcase, and you have just handed the entire Airport Authority a very bad afternoon. Terminals get swept. Flights get delayed. Hundreds of people who did nothing wrong get to stand around while officers check that a father's meltdown wasn't real. He's now under arrest, and whatever he was actually mad about with the airline, he'll have a lot more time to think it over.