doubleplusundead

July 30, 2008

Die the Friendly Skies

I don't find it extremely interesting that a woman died in an airplane bathroom. Based on the amount of time women seem to spend in bathrooms, I'd suspect nearly 40% of women die in one bathroom or another.

What I do find interesting is the last paragraph of the article:

Atlanta police stationed at the airport respond to calls about dead bodies on airplanes a couple of times a year, said Officer Eric Schwartz, a police spokesman. Talton said the situation was rare, but flight crews are trained to handle “a number of situations on board.”

It wouldn't have raised an eyebrow except for the euphemistic vagueness of the statement. What are these situations and how exactly are they trained to handle them? Is there a Weekend at Bernie's class they are required to take so they don't freak out the other passengers? Today's class: Icing down a corpse in the galley!

Every time I think I've got a handle on how bizarre the world is, I'm proven wrong.

Thanks to RD.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at 02:48 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment
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>>What are these situations?

Well.. um... for example...a girl's dental braces getting caught in a guy's cockring?

Posted by: Tushar at July 30, 2008 03:00 PM (Q7Ugu)

2 Heh. Been a while since you've dropped by Tushar!

Posted by: doubleplusundead at July 30, 2008 03:29 PM (OaNK8)

3 Anything you'd like to share with the class, Tushar?

Posted by: alexthechick at July 30, 2008 05:04 PM (+Y9fx)

4 I would hope most cockrings would be of a large enough gauge that braces wouldn't be able to get snagged on them, but I don't know much about braces.

Posted by: Alice H at July 30, 2008 05:50 PM (jRtPb)

5 Heh.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at July 30, 2008 06:46 PM (OaNK8)

6 Heh is right. Anything you'd like to share with the class, Alice?

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at July 30, 2008 08:13 PM (yl/pb)

7 Alice has many things the class wishes she's share. Of that I'm certain.

Alex, too.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at July 30, 2008 08:36 PM (SkqC2)

8 I'm just sayin, you don't want a ring implanted for rough trade to be of a narrow enough gauge that if it gets a good tug, it's gonna pull through the flesh it was implanted in.

That's why those itty bitty pieces of wire that go through the nipple are useless. You want a large gauge ring that goes behind or you might as well just not touch it, or you're risking a pullthrough. Which can still happen with the larger gauge rings if it's given a good enough tug, but you have to be really trying to do that.

Having never worn braces, I don't know if braces would get entangled in something of a larger gauge.

How'd your bar exam go today, Gabriel? Were you able to salvage your laptop and yesterday's exam work?

Posted by: Alice H at July 30, 2008 08:48 PM (jRtPb)

9 Things I had never considered before today: nipple-ring pull through, cockring pull through. Thanks for that.

I managed to upload yesterday morning's stuff, thank God. But my laptop still refuses to boot properly 9 out of 10 times (even in safe mode now). I'm bringing it with me tomorrow, but I expect I'll be writing for the morning essays and the afternoon performance tests.

But then I don't have to worry about a gosh darn thing until the results come out in November! My job doesn't start until the end of September. I think I'll write a novel in the meantime.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at July 30, 2008 09:19 PM (yl/pb)

10 Oh, and I had braces. They never got caught in anything, including my girlfriend's braces. You'd really have to doing something screwy to do that.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at July 30, 2008 09:20 PM (yl/pb)

11 well, now when you go to get something pierced to celebrate finishing taking your bar exam, you'll be a more informed consumer.

Posted by: Alice H at July 30, 2008 09:27 PM (jRtPb)

12 I had my ears pierced in college (at a Claire's, just like Pleb's daughter, actually). Haven't worn anything since I came to law school, though, and the one on the right has sealed up 'cause of the scarring from the accident.

Not sure that I have an interest in piercing anything else, though. My nips aren't sensitive, which makes that more cosmetic than anything, and I'm not too keen on poking holes in my peen. For a while I dated a girl with her septum pierced. That'd be funny just for shock value alone.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at July 30, 2008 09:34 PM (yl/pb)

I'm an airline pilot and this happens more than you think (death on board, not getting things stuck on body piercings/accesories).

The flight attendants are told to put a blanket over the body (he's just resting). The crews call ahead to notify EMS. For paperwork reasons, no one dies in the air (how would you know the location of demise?), they're pronounced dead on the jetway.

He's pinin' for the fjords!

Posted by: phat at July 31, 2008 09:56 AM (MSy79)

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