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2020-08-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Passenger allegedly hits American Airlines gate agent after boarding denied for not wearing a mask

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-17 02:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Enjoy driving from now on.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-17 07:12|| 2020-08-17 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 About the only place a mask is any use is on a plane (or commuter crush timed public transport)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-17 07:45|| 2020-08-17 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 That's a man, baybeeee

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-17 07:51|| 2020-08-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 YOLO, Yola

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-08-17 07:56|| 2020-08-17 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 "Yolanda, you look like a girl, bro!"
Said nobody, ever, to Yarborough.
Instead of a curl,
'Twas her mustache she'd curl
As she simpered and lit up a Marlborough.

Posted by Injun Ebbelet2935 2020-08-17 08:00|| 2020-08-17 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Or twirl, even.

Posted by Jiggs Mussolini6858 2020-08-17 08:01|| 2020-08-17 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I usually come down with a sniffle a day or two after a flight, so I'm tempted to add a mask to flying regardless. Maybe it won't help, maybe it will.

Getting violent over it is... a sign of not being all that intelligent.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-08-17 08:36|| 2020-08-17 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I used to think crying kids on flights were a nuisance. Now it's that person hacking and sneezing and blowing the nose three seats away and who want to borrow your pen to complete the customs form that is annoying.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-17 08:52|| 2020-08-17 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Mask is cheap insurance against random insanity.

Might even stop g(r)om...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-17 09:09|| 2020-08-17 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 a sign of not being all that intelligent

Yep.
Flying from LA to Phoenix to Las Vegas when its a 4 hour drive, or a 1 hour flight for $43.

Unless the guy was a courier.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-17 10:24|| 2020-08-17 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 You can say it's a one-hour flight. But when you add in the time it takes to drive to the airport, check your luggage, go through TSA, wait for your luggage at your destination's baggage carousel and deal with your destination's ground transportation it might add up to the same amount of time it takes to drive. Then you add the annoyance from your fellow passengers, the cramped seating, the airplane air and it's a wonder anybody flies at all.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-08-17 12:54|| 2020-08-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 ...it's a wonder anybody flies at all

I try not to, unless there's a lot of water between me and where I have to go or there are serious time constraints.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-17 13:13|| 2020-08-17 13:13|| Front Page Top

#13 One sympathizes.

Posted by Iblis 2020-08-17 16:08|| 2020-08-17 16:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Despite the TSA pigs, flying is the way to go...and safer statistically. But, yeah, standing in line, going through security, and sitting and waiting for the inevitable flight delay is a pain in the proverbial.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-17 18:31|| 2020-08-17 18:31|| Front Page Top

#15 ..actually the crowd at the TSA check point makes a better target for bombers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-17 22:06|| 2020-08-17 22:06|| Front Page Top

#16 I remember years ago in a Travis McGee book , before TSA , 4 or 5 terrorists just walked in the front air port entrance, got into the middle of the lobby, and broke out submachine guns. They formed a circle started marching around hosing the crowd. They had a lot of magazines with them.

Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-08-17 23:18|| 2020-08-17 23:18|| Front Page Top

#17 The possibilities are endless, unfortunately.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-17 23:29|| 2020-08-17 23:29|| Front Page Top

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