3D Megadoodoo posted:

Do you think planes are plumbed in?

Platystemon posted:

No.

I think that being a stowaway on a ship was a big deal because the stowaway endangered the life of everyone aboard.

A stowaway on a plane should not be a big deal. All they’re doing is costing the airline a tiny bit of money and making bureaucrats angry.

Being a stowaway in this century is not a real crime. It’s like jaywalking.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Platystemon posted:

No.

I think that being a stowaway on a ship was a big deal because the stowaway endangered the life of everyone aboard.

A stowaway on a plane should not be a big deal. All they’re doing is costing the airline a tiny bit of money and making bureaucrats angry.

Being a stowaway in this century is not a real crime. It’s like jaywalking.

ImpAtom posted:

Eh, I would say having someone on the plane who is not supposed to be on the plane is slightly more of a problem not just because it loses the airline money but because having someone able to get on your plane anonymously could cause some serious poo poo if anything goes wrong. Seems harmless in this case and they shouldn't be charging the person with anything serious, but it is still something you want to avoid in case of a bad scenario.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Unless the capitalists start rationing fuel for profits. "We have exactly X pounds of cargo on this flight, so we need exactly X gallons of fuel, plus say 2% for a safety margin" and then some huge fatties stowaway and there isn't enough fuel.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Airlines operate on taxpayer money.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Way to link to a 10 year old article that cites two incidents.

Platystemon posted:

They already kind of do this.

Passengers and their carryon luggage generally aren’t weighed though, so there’s always some degree of uncertainty in the figures, stowaways or not.

There are legal safety margins that keep planes from outright falling short of their destinations, but sometimes when there are unexpected weather/congestion/technical delays, pilots have to talk to controllers and cut in line. Fail to be assertive in this, and you get Avianca 052.

Sir Lemming posted:

I know they know what they're doing, but still

ultrafilter posted:

The article.

quote:

I had decided this was the year I’d finally read Jane Eyre and it was a great distraction.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

In an apology for the recent ruckus, I offer a collection of “syntactically ambiguous headlines” from the past:
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
Farmer Bill Dies in House
British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

DrBouvenstein posted:

Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797



Uhh....

FreudianSlippers posted:

Getting some Monster with 21 Faces vibes. The unknown group of people who poisoned candy to blackmail the candy company and sent a lot of taunting letters to the police and media.

Leon Sumbitches posted:

Headless Body in Topless Bar

DrBouvenstein posted:

Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797



Uhh....

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

In an apology for the recent ruckus, I offer a collection of “syntactically ambiguous headlines” from the past:
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
Farmer Bill Dies in House
British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

DrBouvenstein posted:

Maybe this qualifies more as "Disturbing" than weird but:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/applesauce-pouches-may-have-been-contaminated-on-purpose-fda-foods-chief-says-00131797



Uhh....

Hispanic! At The Disco posted:

The only headline I remember from my local paper is "Drunk Driver who hit Courthouse Narrowly Avoids Jail".

Leon Sumbitches posted:

Headless Body in Topless Bar

Politico posted:

Blogging on The Huffington Post, Charlie Carillo, who was in the newsroom that day, described an exuberant Musetto coming up with the headline after the news went over the transom. Carillo said Dick Belsky, then a city editor, subsequently called for a fact-check of the improbable scenario:

"Hang on, Vinnie, we're not a hundred per cent sure it's a topless bar!"

Vinnie jumped on top of his desk and waved his arms.

"It's gotta be a topless bar!" he cried. "This is the greatest f------ headline of my career!"

Vinnie got his wish. The topless-bar angle checked out, and within minutes the presses were rolling.

Belsky himself added a little more color to the anecdote in his own post at NBCNewYork.com, where he is now an executive:

I called the cops, but they didn’t know if the place was topless or not. I had someone try the bar, but there was no answer. We reached out for people who lived in the neighborhood, phone listings. Nothing. It was closing in on our deadline now. So I dispatched a young woman reporter named Maralyn Matlick to go to the bar and see first-hand if she could determine whether or not it was topless.

A few minutes before deadline, the reporter called in to say the bar was locked up tight. There were no signs, no advertisements about it being a topless place. I asked her if she could see inside. She said she’d try. She somehow was able to pull herself up and peek into a window of the bar. That’s when she saw it. A sign inside that said: “Topless Dancing.” Matlick was ecstatic. She called me to tell me the news, and just like that, New York City tabloid history was made.

bobjr posted:

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1736912546450268419?s=20

Captain Hygiene posted:

Famous Fortnite character Chun Li

Tiggum posted:

That's not what it says. The most-searched game is Fortnite. The most-searched character is Chun Li. These facts are independent. People searching for porn of various different Fortnite characters all get combined together into the stats for Fortnite as a whole, whereas people search for Chun Li much more often than for any specific Fortnite character.

poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:

Seems to be exactly what it says???

Tiggum posted:

What is "Sims 4" porn? The Sim is ordinary people in realistic scenarios. That's just normal porn, right?