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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Nothing Beats
By RozzieRail
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:04pm
That headline!
Golf clap to the headline...
By MassMouse
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:29pm
and the response!!
There should be a law
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:18pm
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.)
With Ebola, HIV, etc.
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:46pm
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.
Ebola
By anon
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 10:14pm
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.
That says including semen,
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 09/25/2014 - 8:39am
That says including semen, not just.
But the
By teric
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:36pm
Pilot prevented perturbed priority passengers from penalizing the pretty paltry peculiar pecker
What an idiot, the no
By BPlusPlayer
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:26pm
What an idiot, the no masturbating light was clearly on!
Are we sure that was Virgin Atlantic....
By issacg
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:33pm
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.
America or Atlantic
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:45pm
Not virgin anymore.
It was VX, not VS. Again.
By ckd
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:47pm
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.
Yeah, America for the win
By adamg
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 6:10pm
Post corrected.
If he got off in a Virgin
By JeffT
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:45pm
If he got off in a Virgin plane, does this make him a mile high club member?
If I was on the flight
By davematson
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 4:55pm
I would be slightly more concerned about the fact that the guy was TRYING TO OPEN THE EXIT DOOR in flight than him masturbating.
No worries
By Stevil
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 5:08pm
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.
Would you care for a hot
By Finn
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 8:35pm
Would you care for a hot towel?
Psychiatric emergency as public humiliation story
By Camberville reader
Thu, 09/25/2014 - 1:19am
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.
Where? all it says is
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 09/25/2014 - 8:41am
Where? all it says is someone noticed he was wearing a hospital bracelet
Can be of value
By Markk02474
Thu, 09/25/2014 - 8:44am
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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