SAP related funny incidents in real life

Hello all,
I have heard a story about two gentlemen who were some sort of Functional consultants travelling from the US to Germany.
Just to pick up a conversation , they have started discussing about the Bills of materials and stufff related to that.
In the process what they did not realize is that they were abbreviating it as BOM, which sounded pretty close to a BOMB.
One of those ultra cautious post-9-11 syndrome stuck Air Crew, found something fishy about the term and these two gentlemen and they have detained them from the flight and took them for a grilling session.
They have let them free only after confirmation from a SAP Expert that there indeed was a concept called BOM in SAP and was no way related to anything explosive...(Although we tend to say "Explode the BOM"..:)
Share if you have any such SAP related fun incidents..:)
Cheers and Regards,
Ravi Kanth Talagana

Ravi Dixit wrote:>
> How can it be a "funny" incident - being detained at an airport in today's mad world of terrorist threats?! Hard to believe the story though, looks like someone "created" out of thin air.
I found it funny. I'm probably not the only one. So that's how it can be a funny incident.
What i don't find funny - only worrying - is your response. What is mad in today's world is the response to the 'terrorist' threats. One man's terrorist has always been the other man's freedom fighter, and sometimes the opinion changes over time. When USA supported Taliban and gave them Stinger rockets to take out Russian helicopters the Taliban were freedom fighters. Some years later they were suddenly terrorists because it was no longer Russian helicopters they were shooting at. Confusing, isn't it?
What is frightening is how half the world let themselves fool into believing that dropping a huge bomb from 10 000 metres above someone's head, killing 200 civilians, is less of a terrorist act than using a small bomb in a car which kills 35 civilians. That's scary and shows how easy it is to manipulate the people. A certain German ridiculed in a movie called [The Great Dictator|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator] did that with a lot of success. Politicians today do it as well - apparently also with a lot of success.
Edited by: Kjetil Kilhavn on Jan 22, 2008 3:45 PM:
Reading this again, I now see that perhaps Ravi was not so much saying that one can not make jokes about terrorism as saying that it can't be much fun being detained at the airport. I agree with the latter.

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