Tuesday, December 26, 2006

No good deed goes unpunished

Holy Shit!

When I first saw the headline, my initial thought was “Farts - is there anything they can’t do?”, but it turns out that the story’s far more involved than that.

I’m apparently the last to hear about this miscarriage of justice, on Dec 6th, but I pass it along, nonetheless:

“Flatulence Forces Plane to Land”

This story merits an entry partially to preserve the hysterical record, but primarily so that I can prove to my wife that the story she heard in the Cincinnati airport on Christmas day was in fact true. Many planes, particularly those that are full, smell to some degree or another like ass, and it’s no real mystery why. Bless this poor woman for trying at least to get the plane to smell like sulphuric ass.

As for additional, enlightening commentary, I’ve got nothin’, so I’ll include this, from Kent Ward of the Bangor Daily News:

Reader and columnist reaction to a third story in this newspaper within the past couple of weeks likely varied widely. Datelined Nashville, the article was headlined “Woman lights match on plane to cover gas.’’

“An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence,’’ the story reported, an attention-grabbing paragraph if ever I’ve read one. The FBI was called in, the plane was searched, passengers interviewed, baggage screened. The whole nine yards. Raise your hand if it occurred to you, as it did to me, to speculate that the entire sorry episode may have been put in motion when the woman said to the guy seated next to her, “Pull my finger.’’


Posted by Patton on 12/26/06 at 10:56 AM
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