Saturday, April 7, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Paving Paradise for Tacky Miniature Golf Course
Corolla, North Carolina. This was supposed to blend in with the existing coastal style architecture. Complete with a "cave" and "dodge-em cars" this marks the beginning of the conversion of our beautiful beach community to a ticky tacky competitor to the "redneck riviera" in Panama City Florida. What's next, a ferris wheel? Here's an idea: How bout a county commissioner dunking booth?
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
JetBlue captain restrained on cross-country flight
JetBlue captain restrained on cross-country flight
Passengers had to tackle the captain after he began running down the aisles ranting; the co-pilot took over and the plane made an emergency landing in Texas.
By Betsy Blaney and Oskar Garcia, The Associated Press / March 27, 2012
EnlargeJetBlue Flight 191 on the ground in Amarillo, Texas. It made an emergency landing after its captain had to be restrained.
Roberto Rodriguez/AP
Screaming "They're going to take us down!" a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq Tuesday until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound flight tackled him to the ground just outside the cockpit, passengers said.
Skip to next paragraphThe captain of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was taken to a hospital after suffering a "medical situation" on board that forced the co-pilot to take over the plane and land it in Amarillo, Texas, the airline said.
The unidentified pilot seemed disoriented, jittery and constantly sipped water when he first marched through the cabin, then began to rant about threats linked to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan after crew members tried to calm him down in the back, passengers said.
"They're going to take us down. They're taking us down. They're going to take us down. Say the Lord's prayer. Say the Lord's prayer," the captain screamed, according to passenger Tony Antolino.
Josh Redick, who was sitting near the middle of the plane, said the captain seemed "irate" and was "spouting off about Afghanistan and souls and al-Qaida."
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The outburst came weeks after an American Airlines flight attendant was taken off a plane for rambling about 9/11 and her fears the plane would crash. An aviation expert remembered only two or three cases in 40 years where a pilot had become mentally incapacitated during a flight.
Gabriel Schonzeit, who was sitting in the third row, said the captain said there could be a bomb on board the flight.
"He started screaming about al-Qaida and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and about how we were all going down," Schonzeit told the Amarillo Globe-News.
The captain was tackled by several passengers after he tried to re-enter the cockpit, which had been locked by the co-pilot, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
Antolino, a security executive who said he sat in the 10th row, said he and three others pinned down the captain as he ran for the cockpit door and sat on him for about 20 minutes until the plane landed at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 10 a.m.
"That's how we landed," he said. "There were four of us on top of him. ... Everybody else kind of took a seat and that's how we landed."
An off-duty airline captain who was a passenger on the flight entered the flight deck before landing in Amarillo and took over the duties of the ill captain, the airline said in a statement.
The captain was taken to a local medical facility after the plane landed, the airline said without elaborating.
Shane Helton, 39, of Quinlan, Okla., said he saw emergency and security personnel coming on and off the plane as it sat on the tarmac in Amarillo.
JetBlue captain goes haywire?
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
These Ohio folks are wild! Whirling dervishes - Ohio University Bobcats
Friday, March 16, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Blocked from hotel ny helicopter
On way back to from Starbucks this morning. Construction copter flagmen were insisting I walk around the site so the helicopter wouldn't fall on me. But the let the cars move on. Guess cars are immune from falling helicopters.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
First walk of 2012. I found $31 and King Arthur's sword
This was in a poor area of Kentucky near my home town.
So I am starting out the new year relatively rich and according to the inscription on the sword, I will be the king of England.
It says" Whoso pulleth. Out this sword of this stone is rightwise borne King of England."
Great start huh
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