Snort! ‘Best Rickroll ever?’ Snowden not on flight to Cuba; Journos live-tweet empty seat [pics]

Journalists from around world embark on Moscow-Havana flight to "photograph an empty seat" via @caosnews pic.twitter.com/TL6BGR3NmF #Snowden

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) June 24, 2013

Reporters on flight to Cuba say Snowden is not there. MT @justinwolfers Where's #Snowden? Scene at Moscow airport pic.twitter.com/WMFKYtpKBn

— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) June 24, 2013

Reporters thought Snowden would be on Moscow-Havana flight. They bought tickets, boarded, doors shut. No Snowden. Now on 12-hour flight.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 24, 2013

The #Snowden plot thickens: An @ABC News producer on the flight from Russia to Cuba says he is not on board and the doors have closed.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 24, 2013

Snowden had seat 17A on Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Havana. But boarding is done and he's not on the flight. US pressure intense.

— Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) June 24, 2013

DEVELOPING STORY – #Snowden not flying on #Moscow–#Havana flight: security source tells @interfax_news – @AFP #Cuba #Ecuador @wikileaks

— Mehrzad Kohanrouz (@MehrzadBBC) June 24, 2013

@BBCDanielS: Seat 17A which #Snowden was rumoured to be going to use is empty – @BBCWorld #Moscow #Cuba #Ecuador #Havana @Wikileaks

— Mehrzad Kohanrouz (@MehrzadBBC) June 24, 2013

Cuba here we come. Taxiing down Sheremetevo runway and no sign of Snowden. Seats empty still by 17A

— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013

Ed Snowden there, outwitting a plane full of journalists with a strategy straight out of a bloody Warner Brothers cartoon.

— Jonathan Davis (@jonathand) June 24, 2013

Apparently journos got on the flight to Cuba for nothing? Heh. They must be red with rage, if you'll pardon the pun #Snowden #TheGreatEscape

— Aparaajit (@AparaajitV) June 24, 2013

I am eternally grateful to #snowden and the #journalists on the lost plane to cuba for the most laughs I have had in a long time.

— Marta Lyall (@Marta_Lyall) June 24, 2013

RT @ejbeals: Hilarious live tweeting from plane load of journalists heading form Moscow to Cuba on #Aeroflot without #Snowden.

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) June 24, 2013

Standing next to Edward Snowden's seat on flight to Cuba. He ain't here. pic.twitter.com/NVRH3Pzved

— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013

Journalists "from around the world" boarded #Aeroflot from #Moscow to #Russia "to photograph #Snowden's empty seat." pic.twitter.com/CG5cij0VTX

— Tyler Borchers (@TylerBorchers) June 24, 2013

Where's Clint Eastwood when u need him [email protected]: Standing next to Snowden's seat on flight to Cuba. He ain't here pic.twitter.com/ygFRM6q7mO

— Mark Zohar (@markzohar) June 24, 2013

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines" comes to mind

— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013

Can't believe all those hacks are on the flight from Moscow that #Snowden didn't take. Best Rickroll ever?

— Sara Hussein (@sarahussein) June 24, 2013

I'm not saying that the thing with the alcohol-free flight full of journos heading to Cuba without Snowden is hilarious, wait no, it is.

— Jonathan Cresswell (@JonathanEx) June 24, 2013

Maybe Snowden is in the airplane lavatory? After all, he knows a thing or two about leaks…

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) June 24, 2013

Why you make the big bucks –> RT @JohnBerman: Maybe Snowden is in the airplane lavatory? After all, he knows a thing or two about leaks…

— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) June 24, 2013

Taking photos of #snowden's empty seat to Cuba is the new #Eastwooding

— Garrett Quinn (@GarrettQuinn) June 24, 2013