Woman's flatulence forces plane to land

[NVMojo]

unbelievable ...

NASHVILLE - In case of emergency . . . pull finger!

Flatulence brought down an American Airlines flight early Monday. It is believed to be the first incident in which gastrointestinal gas has forced an emergency landing.

American Flight 1053 was enroute from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, when alarmed passengers reported smelling struck matches, Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority told the Tennesseean newspaper.

Despite the odoriferous menace, the plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said.

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http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061206/NEWS18/61206001&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

[Township75]

1. Story seems to fit your avatar :)

:)

[NVMojo]

4. thanks for the love, Township75. Farted on any crowded buses lately?

just read your profile! :loveya:

[dubeskin]

2. So it seems not all weapons

Are as visible as they may seem...

[NVMojo]

6. this is the TSA getting back-fired upon...

I know someone with Crohn's disease who is extremely gaseous and embarassed about it and does light matches to drown out the odor.

[Radio_Lady]

18. There are so many fragrance sprays available -- hard to believe that

people light matches, or even have them available. Maybe smokers do. I guess it's the sulfur smell that overcomes the methane smell.

The real question is: How did she get MATCHES on a PLANE? Was she arrested for that?

[rurallib]

3. Is there any tie to W's love of farting as humor?

Could he rip one big enough to ground AF-1?

[LTR]

5. Too bad she couldn't blame it on the dog

Let that be a lesson. Airlines should not, I repeat SHOULD NOT serve baked beans with the in-flight meal.

Damn plane must have turned into the campfire scene from "Blazing Saddles".

[tabasco]

11. aaaahahahahahahhaa!!!!

aaaahahahahahahahahhaa!!!

[tuvor]

7. It was the smell of struck matches, not the farting, that caused them to decide to land.

Not that the media would EVER let the facts get in the way of an otherwise amusing story, no siree.

:eyes:

[petronius]

9. Yep - god forbid they report what happened, even if it means skipping a 'clever' joke

I'm actually a bit surprised they left her name out; I'd think that bit of public humiliation would be icing on the cake for these 'journalists'.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. They did report it

Even in the dubiously sourced story cited in this thread, what actually happened is in the third paragraph. But, of course, most people don't bother to read that far.

Journalists do not set out to humiliate anyone in reporting a story. It's likely that the woman's name was not noted because the airline didn't reveal it.

[petronius]

19. I did read the whole article - the woman's name is not in it

And I have no difficulty believing that the kind of 'journalist' who would start a story with a 'pull my finger' joke would grab the chance for some public humiliation in a New York minute. (You'll notice that I put 'journalist' in quotes, to indicate that the hacks who wrote this story - and their ilk - do not represent what that term ought to mean.)

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your post, but it sounds as though you think my comment on this 'journalist' was unwarranted - and perhaps you're trying to accuse me (erroneously) of being too lazy to read beyond the second paragraph. If that's the case, I can't agree that you have much of a case in defending a 'journalist' who pushed what actually happened down to the third paragraph to make room for fart jokes up top...

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. That's why I said 'dubiously sourced'

The Reno G-J story has no byline and doesn't follow Associated Press style. I'm tempted to believe it was posted by some "citizen journalist."

[petronius]

23. Then we agree - the piece in question is a poor excuse for journalism

and the author is a poor excuse for a journalist...

:insert some sort of handshake smiley here:

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Yes, we agree on that

I take umbrage, however, at ad hoc attacks on "the media."

Anyway, I think this one will do: :toast:

[tuvor]

20. The source's headline is untrue and misleading.

If a news source thinks it's important enough to report, it should be done accurately, starting with the headline.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. See above (n/t)

[tuvor]

29. Seen as requested.

Thank you :)

[PsN2Wind]

10. Are you telling us

that she was torching them off?

[Montauk6]

27. Titillation to the point of gross distortion.

Sometimes you just want to say, "F THE MSM!!!!"

[sweetheart]

8. Woman's petulance forces bush's hand

Woman's abstinance divorces dickesh stands,
yo man's ignorance horses flatulance grand,
but no great forces drive the plane at hand,
rather foolish morsels eat that yonder man.

Never entwined, never forgotten
always been eaten, ideals be rotten.

[NVMojo]

12. damn, that was good!

[sweetheart]

26. in my ignorance, head of brutish sand

vain my insistance, pen to slate at hand.

:-) Onomotopeiccalllyy forgotten, light the place to land. :-)

[Rockstone]

16. awesome

[sweetheart]

28. thank you

my pleasure, look foward to returning the compliment.

[Radio_Lady]

14. She should do what I do -- carry a 3 1/2 ounce spray of lightly orange scented

mist. No problem getting a citrus mist non-aerosol sprayer on the plane. Purchased at Walgreen's, or Bed, Bath, and Beyond, also a choice of other fragrances at full service car-wash stores or other drug stores. Look in the automobile accessory department. Just remember to get the smallest size, non-aerosol so you can get through security.

I heard this story in the AM on Fox, I think. Of course, one of the early morning anchormen giddily blurted out the kid's refrain...

"THOSE WHO SMELT IT -- DEALT IT!"

[WCGreen]

15. Lighting farts is an act of terrorism....

[crim son]

17. I've seen this story about three times already!

:(

[Kali]

25. You're not matcom! WTH?