Al Qaeda’s Steel Band Mastermind
“FIVE members of a calypso band thrown off a flight after being mistaken for terrorists have won a £5,500 pay-out.”
Aboard a Ryanair flight from Sardinia to London, members of the Caribbean Steel International Orchestra aroused suspicions among their fellow flyers.
As the Mail notes: “One passenger claimed he was concerned that one of the musicians, who was blind, appeared to be reading a newspaper.”
The story has a Dadaist bent.
Better had the blind steel drum player been reading paper dated one day into the future, the front page carrying the legend “HAVE YOU SEEN THE BLIND DRUMMER? – Hunt for Al Qaeda’s Steel Band Mastermind”…
