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Comedy of errors delays flight after nitroglycerine remark
Assemblyman Charles Chapel said his joke about nitroglycerine and a gun in his suitcase caused a 53 minute United Airlines departure delay from Sacramento to Los Angeles. Passengers waited as officers questioned the Palos Verdes Estates Republican who later described the incident as a Keystone comedy and threatened a lawsuit for damages.
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