Beaten with fan belts?
I thought flying on United was bad...

Can someone please tell me what the heck the article was about???

The Port-Courier newspaper said when a Chimbu politician dies and his body is returned home for burial, locals in the remote mountains expect a free flight to Port Moresby.

Why the heck do they expect a free flight to the capitol, especially since the funeral is there locally. And how do they expect to get home?

Rising_Zan_Samurai_Gunman good call.

And how do they expect to get home?

There's the catch...

I'll bet a fan belt will leave a mean welt.

PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - More than 40 youths in Papua New Guinea's highlands stormed the prime minister's aircraft expecting a free flight to the capital Port Moresby, but got a beating from police wielding fan belts instead.

hahahaha

when I become ruler of a small nation Im gonna make sure the police budget is large enough to afford decent weapontry. Fan belts? Effective yes, but not something I want the LAPD to use.

I'll bet a fan belt will leave a mean welt.

Imagine how it felt, to be pelt with the belt.

It's 3:46 AM and i haven't seen my Strong Bizzle!! I don't know what to do!!! I think i'll just go drink instead.

Hijack!

Where be the boo-bies?

Those people need to find a better travel agent.

PMS plane? well that explains it!

/tard

Hey, I went away for like week, and I come back and the Photoshop list is running out, people are going boobiless, and all sorts of other crazy goings on are going on. What the hell happened? If someone would be so kind as to e-mail me at pu­llar­iu­s­1­2liam­tohco­m to tell me what's going on I'd be happy.

Wrentia, Pullarius and anyone else who's curious,

As explained by another Farker on another thread...

Drew's having some legal battles. Some people are trying to classify Fark as an adult site becuase there are links to nudity. If that happens, Fark loses an unnamed important 3rd party. If that happens, no more Fark.

Thanks bunches. We really need to farking find these 'people' so they can meet up with an unfortunate accident. Actually, probably not a good idea to say that, "they" might see it and find me. Bastards.

Pullarius Now that Bill Bennett has disgraced himself, we've re-positioned FARK as cultural morals watchdog.

What?

"Please return your seats to their upright positions, and fasten your fan belts".

Pullaris - Did you hear that the downhill cheese wheel chase was cancelled, too?

that sucks. How are you supposed to get your dessert unless you eat your meat?

/me wonders if totalfark still get their boobies

Unlike other sites, I can pour a cold Newcastle Brown Ale and converse with the guys about boobies. Fark is a virtual pub/nudie bar. You just can't get that on other sites.

but got a beating from police wielding fan belts instead.

Adam Ant - Beat My Guest lyrics

Well tie me up and hit me with a stick
Beat me beat me
Yeah, use a truncheon or a household brick
Beat me beat me
There's so much happiness behind these tears
Beat me beat me
I pray you'll beat me
For ten thousand years
Beat me beat me
I'm black and blue baby
I love you
Be your dog
For just one flog
You don't hear me plead
For you to make me bleed
Beat me beat me
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Well use a truncheon or a cricket bat
Beat me beat me
A good beatings really where its at
Beat me beat me

ButteredAsian

[b]Andonbray[/b] What? I can deal with lack of boobies, there are other ources for those, and photoshop contests, I can do without Ackbar for a few weeks. But when they mess with cheese, I farking take it personally.

Hmmmm...with stories like that being posted as links, must be one heck of a slow news day....

read: BORING and from the WHO GIVES A SHIAT department!!!

Fan belt??

That's nothin'. I was once savagely beaten with a camshaft.

This article leaves out a lot of facts.

Why did the people expect a free plane ride? Just cuz a guy died?
Where is Papua New Guinea?
What did the locals expect to do in Port Moresby?
Why did the police have a supply of fanbelts with them?

I am very disappointed in Reuters. Not even a picture of the welt left after they were pelt with a belt, so you can see how it felt.

Heh, it said these people were "belted" :D
Actually I wonder if this sort of thing is where that expression came from? Belted = hit with belts? Any etymologists in the house? :)

Yes but when the helterskelt people had the pelt belted off of them, were the fan belts clean? Or were they easily smelt?
And how about the Port Moresby bigwigs? Did it say how they felt?
/buys ticket to word game hell so he can melt

El Presidente:

Fanbelts? WTF? At least on Northwest they use bicycle chains, and then give you a free, partly used bag of peanuts.

Did anyone else read the Fark headline as:

Toilet tip causes airplane stampede

I'd run too! Crazy ass pilots.

This was definitely the wrong thread to read in the morning. I haven't had a decent cup of coffee. The cheese race was cancelled. There was a word game from hell that messed with my head. Fark may be closing down. You people really know how to ruin a guy's day right from the beginning.



::searches for vodka::

Shame it wasn't Naughty girls spanked with fan belts when they attempted lesbian sex in the airplane toilet..

feh ...

The aircraft eventually returned the prime minister and his entourage to the capital without any freeloaders.

This is exactly what's wrong with government nowadays. The government sees the little people as a bunch of "freeloaders". They'd like to think that they personally pay for all the benefits they get.

I'll bet that the taxpayers were paying for the plane ride.

The kids are morons for storming the plane like that, but it really sucks that they refer to them as "freeloaders" and not the Prime Minister and other politicians.

Getting a free flight is one of those native traditions dating back thousands of years...

Umm where did the police get those fan belts?? Wasn't the plane going to take off? Is it normal to raid plane engine for disciplanary items?? No wonder planes crash...

Why are you assuming the fan belts are from the airplane?

That'll learn 'em...

I think the fan belts would have made the Rodney King incident a lot more interesting.

Rats, from the headline I thought the stampede was going to be people trying to get off the plane after somebody used the toilet.

LOL! InternetSecurityGuard! they sure made it sound like that didn't they?

Drew needs to find a different sponser, one that doesn't care about boobies! People like that are the true ones that need to be beaten with fan belts!!!!

Viva La Boobies!

maybe Drew could have an adult Fark site, with boobies and stories about 'furiously masturbating man wielding fan belt disrupts Miss American pageant', and he could have a PG-rated Fark for all the goody-goodys. Seems to me there are enough Farkers to support both. Of course the adult site would have 100,000 members and the other one would have 100, but it could work.