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Idiots on a plane

  • 05-06-2013 10:09AM
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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335936/100-Jewish-students-kicked-AirTran-flight-New-York-refusing-away-phones.html
    A large group of Jewish high school students have been kicked off a flight after some refused to turn off their cell phones for take-off.

    The school party of 100 students and eight chaperones were removed from an AirTran flight on its way to Atlanta, Georgia from New York City on Monday around 6 a.m.
    Some have claimed that the airline overreacted to the senior students' actions with one saying that they were targeted for being Jewish.


    The group here seem to have been kicked off when they wouldn't comply with basic safety warnings. Their claims of religious prejudice makes a mockery of the genuine suffering of people who are persecuted because of their beliefs, ethnicity, etc.

    Aside from that - what's the worst case of plane stupidity you've witnissed on your travels?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    At least they didnt recline their chair back








    *runs and hides*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    "I'm sick and tired of these motherf*cking idiots on this motherf*cking plane"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Aside from that - what's the worst case of plane stupidity you've witnissed on your travels?

    I saw someone buy a sandwich on a Ryanair flight once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    iDave wrote: »
    At least they didnt recline their chair back








    *runs and hides*

    Or people who pick the window seat and get up constantly throughout the flight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    At least they weren't kicked off for masterbating.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Not nearly as bad as appluding when the plane lands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    One of the chaperones on the flight, Marian Wielgus, said the airlines 'blew it out of proportion.'

    'It was a mountain out of a molehill,' said Wielgus. She said some students may have had to be told twice to sit down or turn off their phones, but everyone listened

    Tough shít Marian, why didn't they listen the first time? Rules of flying 101, when the plane is taking off and landing turn off your phone. So therefore I'm reading "may have to be told twice" as obnoxious teeny bopper students trying to impress friends and probably text those three feet away, did not do what air stewards told them on numerous occasions - I'm saying numerous as thats what it becomes when you have to tell multiple individuals twice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Valetta wrote: »
    I saw someone buy a sandwich on a Ryanair flight once.

    That was me, there was a scratchcard involved too. I'm deeply ashamed but in my defence, nurofen had been taken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Festy wrote: »
    At least they weren't kicked off for masterbating.

    Cum fly with me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    I think the flight crew's tolerance for zanny antics and such would not have been high at 6am.

    Warn them once, warn them twice, then say it to whoever's in charge of them that they'll be kicked off if he can't reign them in. Then kick them off.

    Idiots.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Targeted for being mongs more like.

    How hard is it to turn off your phone for 20 minutes during landing/take off?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Any flight from Dublin to Palma will have a number of genuine bonafide dick heads on it.

    Last lot I saw was a group of women who kept drinking their duty free, arguing with cabin crew and cursing loudly for the entire flight. The sad thing was they all had kids with them who will grow up thinking that is acceptable behaviour.

    Good to see the head steward keep her promise and have the Spanish police meet them off the plane.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I saw two people fighting over a seat on a Ryanair flight at the weekend. Idiots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    I heard about this crazy Frenchman one time who had un petit piss on a flight to Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Why not just say you turned off your phone and then not do it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    don't follow the rules...don't start crying when you get kicked off the plane. Simples.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Good to see the head steward keep her promise and have the Spanish police meet them off the plane.

    Fair play to her.

    No excuse for being an unruly eejit on a flight.

    I've seen people have the argument with flight crews about whether they can drink their own alcohol on board. Apparently it is totally against the law....for some reason.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    don't follow the rules...don't start crying when you get kicked off the plane. Simples.

    The worst thing about all this is they used a very cheap "it's because we're jewish" excuse. Makes a joke of those, including jewish people, suffering for real due to prejudice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Fair play to her.

    No excuse for being an unruly eejit on a flight.

    I've seen people have the argument with flight crews about whether they can drink their own alcohol on board. Apparently it is totally against the law....for some reason.

    so cabin crew can prevent people getting too drunk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    A modern day Exodus, "Let my people go................to Georgia"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Tough shít Marian, why didn't they listen the first time? Rules of flying 101, when the plane is taking off and landing turn off your phone. So therefore I'm reading "may have to be told twice" as obnoxious teeny bopper students trying to impress friends and probably text those three feet away, did not do what air stewards told them on numerous occasions - I'm saying numerous as thats what it becomes when you have to tell multiple individuals twice.

    I'm guessing you didn't see the documentary where they filled cockpits with dozens of ringing mobiles, only to show 0 interference with equipment?

    Being told to turn off something which is harmless is bogus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭allybhoy


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335936/100-Jewish-students-kicked-AirTran-flight-New-York-refusing-away-phones.html


    The group here seem to have been kicked off when they wouldn't comply with basic safety warnings. Their claims of religious prejudice makes a mockery of the genuine suffering of people who are persecuted because of their beliefs, ethnicity, etc.

    Aside from that - what's the worst case of plane stupidity you've witnissed on your travels?


    My sister was coming back from Cuba in March and two Italian lads started fighting with each other, they had to be restrained to their seats and the plane had to make an emergency detour to the Azores islands (google them) in the middle of the atlantic ocean where the two passengers where thrown off. Apparently they where hit with the fuel bill (40k plus) and also charged with breach of peace, not to mention they had to figure a way to get off the island


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭Soups123


    I thought this was going to be some Ballymun take of 'Snakes on a plane'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Wattle wrote: »
    I heard about this crazy Frenchman one time who had un petit piss on a flight to Ireland.
    Oui?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Oui?

    Baddum tish!


  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ah planes.. the place where knackers and normal people must sit close together in a metal tube hurtling through the air at 450mph.
    a devious social experiment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    I'm guessing you didn't see the documentary where they filled cockpits with dozens of ringing mobiles, only to show 0 interference with equipment?

    Being told to turn off something which is harmless is bogus.

    Ah but they do it for a reason. People need to hear the safety briefing. Can't do that if you headphones on or are distracted in any other way.

    Take off and landing are also the potentially most dangerous times on a flight so you don't want 50 people looking around confused because they didn't hear what was going on. Or not knowing what the first thing they need to do is because they weren't listening.

    Also, if phones etc. are put away, they have less chance of becoming missiles! But people aren't told any of that cos it's terrifying!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    I'm guessing you didn't see the documentary where they filled cockpits with dozens of ringing mobiles, only to show 0 interference with equipment?

    Being told to turn off something which is harmless is bogus.

    Maybe but it hardly justifies not following a simple request and letting yourself be kicked off a plane. Like someone else said, if they were that determined to keep their phones on, why didn't they just pretend to turn them off?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    glasso wrote: »
    ah planes.. the place where knackers and normal people must sit close together in a metal tube hurtling through the air at 450mph....
    I thought there was a filtering system in existence: Ryanair.


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