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The moment drunken plane passenger is TAPED to his seat during flight to New York after ‘trying to choke one woman and ranting the plane was going to crash’

A drunken passenger on a New York-bound intercontinental flight was duct-taped to his seat by his fellow passengers after attacking one woman and screaming the plane was going to crash.

New York man Andy Ellwood posted the picture to his Tumblr along with an account of the incident.

‘(Passenger) drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Iceland to JFK yesterday,’ Ellwood wrote.

Long flight: Witnesses said the man began [...]

Crimean-Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever

Not good…

A man is being treated in complete isolation in Glasgow after being confirmed as having Crimean-Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever.

The 38-year-old man is said to be in a critical condition in the city’s specialist Brownlee unit.

He was admitted to hospital less than three hours after returning to Glasgow on Emirates flight EK027 from Dubai.

The tick-borne tropical disease, which is extremely uncommon in Western Europe, is fatal in up to 30% [...]

Obama bill-paying hoax sweeps up victims nationwide

A myth that President Obama is giving people money to pay their bills has prompted thousands of people across the country to try to pay for utilities, phone service and loans using bogus bank routing numbers.

United Way of Cleveland’s 2-1-1 changed its answering machine Monday to say rumors of the Obama program were false after fielding dozens of calls.

Later that day, a United Way employee was on an RTA bus [...]

UK woman jailed for racist rant on London subway

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has jailed a woman whose racist tirade toward fellow subway riders went viral on YouTube.

Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, boarded the subway drunk on the evening of Jan. 23 and began berating her fellow passengers with a profanity-filled, racist verbal assault.

A seven-minute video of it was uploaded to YouTube and viewed more than 200,000 times.

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Baldwin apologizes to fellow flyers, not airline, in online rant

CTVNews.ca Staff

Date: Thursday Dec. 8, 2011 10:38 AM ET

Is Alec Baldwin really sorry for getting tossed off a flight bound for New York?

The “30 Rock” star issued an apology on Wednesday posted on the Huffington Post. In it, Baldwin, 53, apologized to his fellow passengers on an American Airlines flight that was delayed by the actor’s refusal to stop playing a word game on his cellphone.

“It was never my intention to [...]

DEFIANT: ALEC BALDWIN BOOTED OFF PLANE

What a smart Alec.

Hot-head Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight this afternoon in Los Angeles because he was playing a game on his phone apparently past the point when passengers are supposed to have turned off their devices.

On his Twitter account, Baldwin wrote: “Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving.”

Fellow passengers stuck on the [...]

Bus Search Anecdotal Information

Michael S. Rozeff
LRC Blog
November 21, 2011

A Greyhound traveler reports the following, extracted from a longer anecdote that says that Greyhound arrived 8 hours late and didn’t have the advertised wifi:

“TSA was in Memphis going through people’s stuff and wanding them. In Atlanta a local cop was doing it. He even made forays into the waiting area doing same. Disgusting to  see. I managed to avoid searches in Memphis because [...]