Now that's what I call a sticky situation.

Dinner to die for

You don't like it, you don't eat it. DUH!

If you want to be an adult, first learn to ACT like one.

"Two airline passengers threaten to bomb plane over in-flight food .... with their asses

The food was just the last straw. It was the security checkpoint lady feeling up their wives' breasts that really had them upset.

Oh, those goofy Arab plane bombers. They get me everytime.

Sounds like these guys really "Lotted" themselves.

Airlines need a bouncer. If there was a bouncer, he could nicely escort them off the plane.... at 30000 feet.

I like how it points out that "Arabs threaten.." in the title. Yeah, it was a damn Jordanian flight. If they were flying from Houston to Dallas would they make sure to point out that the suspects were, in fact, white?

...its frickin airline food...and they wanted to blow up the plane...wow...

Those Arabs really need to racially profile themselves.

</sarcasm>

A kinder, gentler, politically-correct Fark? Today I am truly disgusted.

Well, its kinda understood thats Arabs are terrorists now, so you kind of have to point that out.

/drunk

Tourney3 .. because most people who read that are white?

"this halibut is so bad, it's like there's a jihad in my pants and everyone's invited!

LMAO!

A better headline might have been:

"Two passengers on Jordanian flight threaten to blow it up over the food. Arabs suspected."

Therefore, I decree that from this day forth, any time an Arab does something stupid in his or her own country, the phrase "Arabs suspected" shall be appended to the headline title.

Wow. My girlfriend is coming to the USA from Australia (once her visa is approved, fingers crossed) and I've told her, once you walk into an airport, you basicly give up all of your human rights.
She's a firecracker, though, and I worry that when they open her bags, she'll yell at them, and they'll slap the cuffs on her.

To actually threaten to bomb a plane is assinine, and to do so over bad food (duh, unless you fly first class, the food will be awful - just hope that they're free with the booze (I suppose you can count that out when flying in the middle east)) is near suicidal.

Lock these morons up before they do something really stupid and hurt people.

-Big Dave-

All aussie women are firecrackers. If I move to the USA I'll prolly get shot in the first month.

The only other thing I wanted to say was:

I have felt like this :)

just goes to show that america doesn't have a monopoly on stupidity after all.

Seems I also tend to keep my eye on Arabs just a little longer than most other people. Im sure its just me though.

Never be rude to an Arab,
An Isreali, or Saudi, or Jew.
Never be rude to an Irishman,
No matter what you do.

Never poke fun at a attractive and successful African-American,
A Spic, or a Wop, or Kraut.
And never poke fun at--

(BOOM!)

Hey! that didnt paste the same as it cut?!

http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/albums-cds/lyrics/never-be-rude-to-an-arab.html

Rjw00026,

America in no way has a monopoly on stupidity. That is definately shared by all of humankind. The problem is America has a news media which seems to cover nothing BUT the stupidity of Americans.

it's just an expression...

DO NOT FOR ANY REASON alter the funnyness of a MP skit or I will make you go [points at end of song]

Never be rude to an Arab,
An Isreali, or Saudi, or Jew.
Never be rude to an Irishman,
No matter what you do.

Never poke fun at a attractive and successful African-American
A Spic, or a Wop, or Kraut.
And never poke fun at--

(BOOM!)

Fark is altering my speech!
BLEH!

Food on a flight? I thought they'd stopped that to save $. Last time I flew all we got was those little bags of nuts. Lucky for me, I was coming home from Miami, so my carryon was stuffed with Bistec empanizado, tostones and frijoles negros.

Jordan's official news agency Petra identified the men as Mohammad Ramadan and Abdul Naser Faraj

Am I the only one who thinks the name Mohammad Ramadan is the coolest name ever?

Jordan's official news agency Petra identified the men as Mohammad Ramadan

the parents really hung one on this guy. what would be the American equivalent, Jesus November?

Before you fly, make sure you take at least one BIG bottle of water - twice as much as you (think you) could possibly drink. Also, pills, pills and more pills. Candy/sandwiches, whatever. Fill up a bag.

It is rare that they feed you enough or give you enough to drink.

Last month I flew down to Australia, and for the whole 22 hour trip I was dehydrated. They were only pouring those little cups of water, one at a time. I mean like, an ounce and a half of water. I would always ask for ice, and watch the preciouse stuff melt so I could moisten my cracked lips with it.

of course, on the trip back, they gave me 6 XXXX and 4 VBs. Go figger. Still, I'm telling you, take a sack of drinks and food.

Has anbody actually checked out the uh...pattern of the stories this website reports? I can't really take a news website seriously when it has banner ads like this

I'll give 'em a Hero tag. Just because I have a long-standing grudge about the shyte Qantas serves up these days in that crappy little shoebox with "enjoy" written on the side, invariably containing a stale salad sandwich with not meat (so you don't upset the vegos) and no dressing (so you don't upset the lactose-intolerant) followed by two boring Milk Coffee biscuits and some lukewarm coffee that is so old and stale it's almost a blessing when the turbulance makes you spill it all over your lap...

sorry.

I was on a shorter flight. I got extra peanuts and TWO soda's on request ;-) I dont recall if it was AA or SouthWest, it was a layover flight.

The secuity checkpoint at Vegas MGM poured out my coffee. I had a plastic coffee mug which I filled with COFFEE at the bar. Apparently, the only approved cups are StarBucks and the styrophome bar cups. So... if you buy StarBucks or get coffee in a bar you are ok, otherwise yer a suspect.

Guard: "Uh, sir, could you please take a drink of your coffee before taking it on the airplane?"

Woodchipper: "But Allah says I should not drink coffee..."

Woodchipper falls over with a bullet to the back of the skull. Homeland defense kicks up the warning from orange to fark me red in response. Iraq surrenders.

/ i got nutin.

Yeah, it was a pretty bad experience alltogether.

I walked around that airport forever not knowing if i was going in the right direction (which i was actually) and after a while figured out that the movie rental-looking offices were the info counters. Nowhere in the entire place did i see 'Customer Service' or 'Help for the clueless' posted. There were, however, pleny of slot machines and flat screen and projection movies Everywhere.

I was pissed the whole time. In fact, after the coffee molestation I was feeling rather irate.

It's a good thing I'm not telekinetic.

</thoughts that cannot be mentioned in the USA for fear of arrest and or being accused of being an arab>

People should be required to eat a big slab of pork before boarding an airplane.

You know, because no one wants to ride with vegetarians.

Follow up from Associated Press (or something):

Apparently Mr. Ramadan had ordered the low-fat kosher meal, but was given the low-sodium kosher meal instead. Mr. Faraj had recieved the low-fat kosher meal by mistake, but had already eaten it by the time the error was discovered.

A fatwa against the flight attendant ensued.

Thanks Sweater Girl :)

I just may take you up on it !

Did you know Georgia has the largest population of kangaroos outside of australia? When I heard that, I knew it would be a place I could call home:) Oh - stone mountain == ayres rock. Sydney and Atlanta buildings are around the same age due to the US civil war, and even look the same. Climate = same, both recent ex-olympic cities, big cafe culture, both have urban rapid transit systems - the list goes on. I really like Atlanta.

Tadlette - are you in Atlanta now? I... didn't enjoy my visit. Anyway the commute will kill you.

I'm bringing my girl here to live with me in Santa Cruz.
When she gets homesick I'll have a little taste of Oz waiting:
http://www.simplyoz.com/

This plane is the bomb, yo! This food is tight.

-Big Dave-

No, I was there at the start of November. My other half is coming here next time, we try to do alternate visits but it's so much cheaper for me to fly there so it usually ends up being 3:1 I go to ATL. Not that I mind, I'm here all the time so being there rocks.

I'm sorry you didn't like it here. Can't always be perfect :) Where did you visit ?

I agree regarding the commute, but I'm such an old hand at it now it doesn't phase me. Take asprin for three days before the flight to make sure you don't get blood clots. Take heaps of vitamin b, stay up the night before (this helps you beat jet lag) and sleep the whole way on the plane. Don't stay up for the movies, it's a trap :)

Your thing with the water is spot on, I take a litre on every flight and make them fill up the bottle when it's empty. They keep cabin humidity at lesss than 10% to kill off any mould that might be doing the international transfer, and also because the weight of the water needed to hydrate the cabin properly for 13 hours would make the plane too heavy.

Because of that, a light moisturiser on any bare part of the skin is a really good move, AND a nasal spray like beconase will save your life. My nose bleeds by the end of the trip from being too dry if I don't have beconase.

/tad_travel_tips

I'll have to pass on the tip about asprin - that makes quite a bit of sense.

My girl is a total moisturizer junky, so I'm sure she will slather herself before she gets on the plane.

Only one thing to add - what with all the recent cruse ship sickness, a story recently caught my attention, where (I think) a 13 year old kid tested the water in the *pitchers* on airplanes, and found them to be loaded with bacteria. Apparently it's something about them running out of bottled stuff and taking water from the same resivour that is used in the bathrooms to wash hands with. I think they said the tanks that hold that water are rarely cleaned.

So, my policy, and something I will stress when talking with my girl about her preperation, is to take all the water you will need with you. On the way back, I took a whole 3 liters. Maybe I'm overdoing it, but with the stress of such long flights (in July we will both be flying back to be married) I think it's worth the little bit of extra effort to bring your own.

Any particular reason it's cheaper to fly to the States than it is to fly from the USA to Oz? I'm very interested in this.