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A group of would-be holidaymakers who flew in a private jet from London to the Côte d’Azur in France has been turned back by police.

Seven men and three women arrived on the chartered aircraft to Marseille-Provence airport, where helicopters were waiting to fly them on to Cannes, where they had rented a luxury villa.

The men, aged 40-50, and women, aged 23-25, were refused permission to enter France and ordered by police to fly back to the UK.

“They were coming for a holiday in Cannes and three helicopters were waiting on the tarmac,” a border police spokesperson told Agence France-Presse. “We notified them they were not allowed to enter the national territory and they left four hours later.”

Once the Embraer Legacy jet had landed at Marseille-Provence, the group, made up of several nationalities including Croatian, German, French, Romanian and Ukrainian, reportedly tried to get help from contacts to continue their journey.

“They tried to make use of their connections and made a few phone calls,” the source said.

The helicopter pilots were told to return to their base and were fined for breaking the French lockdown rules.

The jet, chartered by a Croatian businessman reportedly in “finance and property”, arrived last Saturday, but details were only released on Thursday. French police said they would be carrying out strict checks on private aircraft arriving in France over the Easter period.

twoday posted:

here's a fun wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll

my favorite, which is not listed there is the eruption which created the Sete Cidades crater in the Azores in 1287, which caused the St. Lucia's Flood

crater:




This is in addition to tens of thousand of others on the coasts of England and France. The flood was so devastating that it permanently flooded much of the Netherlands, which used to look like this, and created an inland sea:



looked like this afterwards:



Took several hundred years to drain it

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'm Hoom

Inceltown posted:

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

Inceltown posted:

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

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The men, aged 40-50, and women, aged 23-25,

DrManiac posted:

my mom has been sending me 5G conspiracy poo poo all day lol.

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On Monday, April 8, 2024 a rare total solar eclipse lasting a maximum of 4 minutes 28 seconds will be visible from parts of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada as the moon’s central shadow sweeps across the continent in 139 magical minutes.

It will come exactly 6 years, 7 months and 18 days after the “Great American Eclipse” of Monday, August 21, 2017.

“What is most exciting about the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse is that the total phase of eclipse is nearly twice as long as the 2017 eclipse,” said Michael Zeiler, an eclipse cartographer who launched GreatAmericanEclipse.com initially in anticipation of the 2017 total solar eclipse. "Because it is so much longer, the width of the path of totality is also bigger.”

eric ciaramella posted:

lol

Dixville posted:

My hand's getting numb but that always happens when I lay on the couch with my arms bent, for some reason. Always the left hand. I guess I should ask a doctor about it but oh well.

twoday posted:

no it's funnier if they also start posting

Inceltown posted:

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

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The men, aged 40-50, and women, aged 23-25, were refused permission to enter France and ordered by police to fly back to the UK.
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Once the Embraer Legacy jet had landed at Marseille-Provence, the group, made up of several nationalities including Croatian, German, French, Romanian and Ukrainian, reportedly tried to get help from contacts to continue their journey.

Inceltown posted:

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

Dixville posted:

My hand's getting numb but that always happens when I lay on the couch with my arms bent, for some reason. Always the left hand. I guess I should ask a doctor about it but oh well.

The Saucer Hovers posted:

Ross DaouThot posted:

lol third hit on google say it caused similar destruction when it last erupted in...

2018

Apraxin posted:

S T I G N A T I U S

twoday posted:

I have contacted a prominent BCG researcher and am trying to convince them to buy an account so that I can show them my original BCG post

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

could be cubital tunnel syndrome or radial tunnel syndrome

basically nerve tunnels in your elbow that, in some people, can pinch the nerve and make numbness happen. i get numbness in my ring and pinky fingers when i have my arms bent for a long time, like a long bike ride, or holding a phone to my head for a long time.

my doctor said it’s pretty common and nothing to worry about as long as the feeling comes back if you shake your arms out 🤷🏼‍♂️

Bulgakov posted:

lol loving rich people

snoo posted:

Der Meister posted:

they pouted on the tarmac for four hours calling their French political buddies and still got told to gently caress off lol

Rip Testes posted:

The minute sample of eastern European I know from the former USSR seem to casually mention they are well off because of their TB vaccine. I guess this is in the news in Moldova and Azerbaijan.

EIDE Van Hagar posted:

could be cubital tunnel syndrome or radial tunnel syndrome

basically nerve tunnels in your elbow that, in some people, can pinch the nerve and make numbness happen. i get numbness in my ring and pinky fingers when i have my arms bent for a long time, like a long bike ride, or holding a phone to my head for a long time.

my doctor said it’s pretty common and nothing to worry about as long as the feeling comes back if you shake your arms out 🤷🏼‍♂️

Steve Yun posted:

I live in Los Angeles but sometimes when I drive by Wilshire and Fairfax and smell pee outside of my car window I get nostalgic for New York

facetoucher cat posted:

My doctor said mine was radial nerve syndrome, just a bunch of inflammation and crap in there. It's really because of how I sleep mostly it just presents when I'm sitting in that one position. If I sleep with my arms to my chest it makes all the difference in the world the next day, it's crazy

SKULL.GIF posted:

gently caress, we were so close to 100k cases today. We won't get that tomorrow or Sunday because weekend reporting sucks

Monday will pwn

Inceltown posted:

French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK

SKULL.GIF posted:

gently caress, we were so close to 100k cases today. We won't get that tomorrow or Sunday because weekend reporting sucks

Monday will pwn

eric ciaramella posted:

what's the target for 200k in a day? monday?

i am harry posted:

Man...where are those seven old pieces of poo poo going to gently caress prostitutes half their age now??

SKULL.GIF posted:

we'll probably never get there as America has a cap of 100k tests per day and everywhere else is gradually getting it under control or simply doesn't have the testing capacity

if we're seeing 200k daily official confirmed cases then hell is about to break loose because that means it's totally worldwide and uncontrolled. so basically if it starts exploding in brasil and india

SKULL.GIF posted:

hell is about to break loose because that means it's totally worldwide and uncontrolled. so basically if it starts exploding in brasil and india

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1248598079294574593?s=20

Zeriel posted:

God is real and wants us all to fuckin die