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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBest headline ever? Man in his underpants danced on the wing of Angela Merkel’s jet
The man, a bodybuilder of Turkish descent named as Volkan T, 24, danced on a wing of the German chancellors aircraft, sprayed fire extinguisher foam around its luxury cabin and randomly pushed cockpit buttons, deploying an emergency evacuation slide.
According to a leaked police report, the man easily boarded the Airbus 319 on 25 July, clutching a bag full of marijuana and ecstasy pills, while it was parked at a closed military section of Cologne airport.
The authorities were only alerted to the security breach, when he inadvertently triggered an alarm while playing with the cockpit buttons.
Adding to the embarrassment, it then took police, dogs, private security guards and soldiers three hours to get the intruder off the plane, including attempts to persuade him to give up shouted over a megaphone.
The Federal state aircraft was loaded with up to eight tons of fuel, enough to take it to Beijing and it was ready to fly if the intruder had known how.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10257947/Man-in-his-underpants-danced-on-the-wing-of-Angela-Merkels-jet.html
Never a dull moment....
Aerows
(39,961 posts)or at least it isn't nearly as entertaining.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Autumn
(45,082 posts)crazies seem to like.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)clearly, she should have.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Gotta love William Shatner.
He starred in two other Twilight Zones that I can remember. One with the devil-headed penny fortune teller. The other as an astronaut recently returned from Venus. (On second thought, the latter may have been an "Outer Limits" episode -- no matter, Shatner is Shatner.)
Here's a clip from the other Twilight Zone with Shatner, "Nick of Time":
I guess the third was Outer Limits, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart from 1964:
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)AmyStrange
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don't ALMOST all men wear underpants ALMOST all the time when they're out in public? I'm wearing underwear right now too.
This should read:
Man (dressed only) in his underwear dances...
I know, I'm eating cheese (right now) with my whine,
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)The Chancellor of Germany's jet sat on the tarmac unguarded????
petronius
(26,602 posts)bvar22
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Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)by exposing the vulnerability without causing real harm. Now the security can be tightened to avoid a real terrorist being able to board Merkel's plane and doing things a lot worse than dancing on the wing in his underpants.
dflprincess
(28,076 posts)I thought Bush was drunk and harassing her again.