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jayh · 09-04-2003, 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by Buddrow_Wilson

Hmm..first thing that comes to mind for me was when I and my g/f at the time were on a commercial flight from Dallas to Seattle. We decided we wanted to become members of the "Mile-high Club".

That can be extremely dangerous now. Sky marshals consider people sneaking into the bathroom together to be a felony terrorist threat (no joke).

j

Nialler · 09-04-2003, 06:28 AM

I thought that membership of the Mile High Club proper meant that you had to have met the person for the first time on the flight!

Maybe I'm wrong.

I once applied for single membership, but that's another matter.

fried beef sandwich · 09-05-2003, 12:21 AM

Goddammit Koy...

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God DAMN!

Loren Pechtel · 09-05-2003, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by jayh
That can be extremely dangerous now. Sky marshals consider people sneaking into the bathroom together to be a felony terrorist threat (no joke).

j

If they are going to note such sneaking they'll note that it's a man and a woman and they'll be thinking of the mile high club also. I doubt it's a big problem.

jayh · 09-05-2003, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by Loren Pechtel
If they are going to note such sneaking they'll note that it's a man and a woman and they'll be thinking of the mile high club also. I doubt it's a big problem.

There have been arrests.

The premise is that people could be sneaking weapons or arming an explosive.

It is, of course totally stupid, but the behavior of the government in the past 2 years has been anything but rational.

One woman trying to nurse, refused the airline's blankets for her baby (it was unwrapped and this was at the height of the SARS scare). She was flagged or suspicious behavior. When she got into a bit of an argument with another passenger about her nursing, she was arrested.

j

Loren Pechtel · 09-05-2003, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by jayh
There have been arrests.

The premise is that people could be sneaking weapons or arming an explosive.

It is, of course totally stupid, but the behavior of the government in the past 2 years has been anything but rational.

One woman trying to nurse, refused the airline's blankets for her baby (it was unwrapped and this was at the height of the SARS scare). She was flagged or suspicious behavior. When she got into a bit of an argument with another passenger about her nursing, she was arrested.

j

Why in the world would two people in a bathroom be some special danger?

I've heard of the nursing woman but that says nothing about whether two people in a bathroom are suspicious.

BigJim · 09-05-2003, 02:29 PM

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Originally posted by jayh
but the behavior of the government in the past 2 years has been anything but rational.
j

You misspelled "past 200 years".

True, we've seen some exceptional irrationality in the the last two years, but there's plenty if you go back a few more.

[really, I'm not trying to get this thread sent over to politics...]

Demosthenes · 11-19-2003, 09:16 PM

at Koy's story...

:notworthy I think I'm scarred for life and the whole time when I was reading the story I was thinking to myself "I'm sooo glad I'm a queer bitch"

Nialler · 11-20-2003, 01:50 AM

Koy wins.

I was reminded of his experience the other day while driving, when I mis-read a road sign. Instead of reading "Concealed Entrance", I read "Congealed Entrance". Every time I see that sign I think of Koy's story!

Postcard73 · 11-21-2003, 01:22 PM

Koy, that story was definitely pretty gross, but I personally thought it was hilarious. 'Course, I used to counsel sex offenders; after the stories I heard there, nothing about sex bothers me now. Thanks for the laughs. I was laughing so hard that I was crying by the end of the post...

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09-04-2003, 06:28 AM	#42
Nialler Banned Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Paris Posts: 8,473	I thought that membership of the Mile High Club proper meant that you had to have met the person for the first time on the flight! Maybe I'm wrong. I once applied for single membership, but that's another matter.

09-05-2003, 12:21 AM	#43
fried beef sandwich Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 1,156	Goddammit Koy... . . . . . God DAMN!

11-19-2003, 09:16 PM	#48
Demosthenes Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: a speck of dirt Posts: 2,510	at Koy's story... :notworthy I think I'm scarred for life and the whole time when I was reading the story I was thinking to myself "I'm sooo glad I'm a queer bitch"

11-20-2003, 01:50 AM	#49
Nialler Banned Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Paris Posts: 8,473	Koy wins. I was reminded of his experience the other day while driving, when I mis-read a road sign. Instead of reading "Concealed Entrance", I read "Congealed Entrance". Every time I see that sign I think of Koy's story!

11-21-2003, 01:22 PM	#50
Postcard73 Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Roanoke, VA. Posts: 2,198	Koy, that story was definitely pretty gross, but I personally thought it was hilarious. 'Course, I used to counsel sex offenders; after the stories I heard there, nothing about sex bothers me now. Thanks for the laughs. I was laughing so hard that I was crying by the end of the post...

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