Reader Lee R. just notified us of this: you can buy funny luggage stickers online. You put them over your suitcase, and it looks like part of the suitcase has been ripped away to reveal bags of cocaine or heroin, stacks of money, vibrators or:
It’s a tearful female flight attendant bound and gagged in your luggage. Somebody found this and the other stickers funny. Lee came across it as an allegedly amusing “kicked” story for the news (regarding how these stickers might irk customs officials) and informs me, “There were women who looked at it too, who couldn’t see anything wrong beyond the “OMG Vibrators! HA!”
The humor is supposed to come from the fact that you’re displaying such boldly criminal activity to Customs and airport personnel. I get that. But humor, processed by brains capable of critical thinking, is found in the structure of a story, not its content, so the real test of a joke is: can you swap out the content with an equivalent and find it just as funny?
So let’s test this one: how about an image of a small tearful child, bound and gagged in your suitcase? Are you still laughing?