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Police: Pud-pulling passenger puts plane in peril

A Virgin America flight from Boston to Los Angeles on Monday made an emergency landing in Omaha on Monday after a passenger stopped masturbating long enough to try to open an exit door in flight. Two off-duty Boston cops helped put a quick end to the nonsense.


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That headline!

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and the response!!

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That allows other passengers to beat the crap out somebody who pulls something like this. It's a 5 1/2 hour flight already, (expletive.)

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You don't want to take a guy wearing a hospital bracelet and spew his blood all over.

That would be a dumb move.

They would also have to remove everyone from the plane and decontaminate it after, meaning much more delay.

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is spread by semen, so it's moot on that point.

"People remain infectious as long as their blood and body fluids, including semen and breast milk, contain the virus. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness."

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

But yes, he could have Hepatitis or AIDS, and while less gory than ebola, they're not exactly a day at the beach either.

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That says including semen, not just.

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Pilot prevented perturbed priority passengers from penalizing the pretty paltry peculiar pecker

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What an idiot, the no masturbating light was clearly on!

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and not Virgin America?

So far as I know, only Virgin America goes Boston-LA. Virgin Atlantic goes from London to Boston and then the big bird is turned around.

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Not virgin anymore.

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Virgin America [VX] is correctly named in the story; as noted, Virgin Atlantic [VS] doesn't fly that route.

Adam has confused the two before.

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Post corrected.

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If he got off in a Virgin plane, does this make him a mile high club member?

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I would be slightly more concerned about the fact that the guy was TRYING TO OPEN THE EXIT DOOR in flight than him masturbating.

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It's physically impossible to open a commercial airliner's door in flight, unless the plane depressurizes - which means there's probably a hole somewhere else in the plane which probably means you're dead.

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Would you care for a hot towel?

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The LA NBC affiliate story lists the event as a psychiatric emergency. His actions are compatible with a manic episode or an adverse drug reaction.

This public ridicule of someone in obvious distress - courtesy of multiple media - is a major reason why people with mental illnesses can't find work, can't access competent and humane care and are thrown to the street or are incarcerated when they can't fend for themselves.

Stop it already. Universal Hub doesn't need to stoop to this.

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Where? all it says is someone noticed he was wearing a hospital bracelet

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Either the man checked himself out of the hospital and should not have, or he was released when he was still clearly in need of more care. Fixing those problems is important and why public attention can help.

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