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PHIL STAUDT'S BLOG ARTICLES:
Why Giving Banks More Money Won't Work March 29, 2009
Obama Is Bankrupting America March 28, 2009
I Had A Stroke and God Is Mean March 27, 2009
Why I Write Blog Articles March 27, 2009
We Pay Taxes To Fix The World Plus Interest Added March 27, 2009
Clinton Blames United States For Mexico March 27, 2009
Border Violence And Drug Money And Guns March 26, 2009
Obama Has Been A Big Disappointment So Far, Just Like Bush Was March 25, 2009
Obama Says No Cash Or Guns In The United States March 25, 2009
Solves Mexico's Border Drug Money And Guns March 25, 2009
Is The United States Too Big To Fail? Another Day, Another Trillion March 23, 2009
Obama's Slip Up On Jay Leno Show And There Is My Aphasia March 21, 2009
The Real Enemy Combatants Are Greed And Selfishness March 19, 2009
Obama Knew About AIG Bonuses, But Is That The Really Big Story? March 19, 2009
No John McCain And No Barack Obama October 26, 2008
The Big Heist Of 2008 September 25, 2008
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Impatient Plane Passenger Is A Hero
by Phil
Staudt
March 31, 2009
The
Phil Staudt Blog
Finally, some good news.
According to ASSOCIATED PRESS, a 60 year old man from Scotland was a bit impatient at JFK International Airport after waiting for his Las Vegas bound plane to get off the ground, so he tried to open up the emergency door and take a hike. I understand. I have been there.
He had been sitting there for an hour and literally going nowhere. He decided he had had enough. He was probably just going to take a leak and come right back. What is wrong with that? The news media makes this man sound like maybe he has loose screws or something, but I am glad to see stories of people who do things I have thought about doing myself. He probably realized that he could have driven to Atlantic City in the time he had already been sitting in the plane on the ground and he decided to walk across airport runways and flag a cab.
I can hear him saying to himself, "Screw this! Let them kick me off the
bloody plane and tell me I will never be allowed to fly again. I don't need airplanes or airports or snotty flight attendants or baggage handlers that lose my luggage. These seats aren't fit for sitting in to begin with, and then these jerks want to make me sit on them for an extra hour. I'm getting out of here."
This scene belongs in
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" with Steve Martin and John
Candy.
He is a modern day hero. We need more people like that today. I hope he gets on Jay Leno and David Letterman and The Today Show when he gets out. The cereal companies should give him an advertising contract so parents can point at his face on cereal boxes at the breakfast table, and tell their kids that he is a modern day rebel like Paul Revere.
Don't tell me you haven't thought about doing the same thing.
He should fit in well in
New York City. Cheers mate!
by Phil
Staudt
March 31, 2009
The
Phil Staudt Blog
   
"Man accused of opening airplane's emergency door"
ASSOCIATED PRESS March 30, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an air traveler they say got fed up waiting on the tarmac at Kennedy Airport and tried to open a jet door and get
out...read_article
"Antsy
flier arrested at JFK after trying to yank open emergency exit door on
plane"
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS March 31,2009 BY Nicole Bode
...Robert McDonald, 60, of Glasgow, apparently had enough of the wait inside Delta's Flight 149 to Las Vegas on Sunday night when he went for the escape hatch, prosecutors
said...read_article
"Scottish man en route to Las Vegas arrested at N.Y. airport"
LAS VEGAS SUN March 30, 2009 By Mary Manning
A Scottish man, frustrated after several hours of waiting on a Delta jetliner stuck in New York City on the way to Las Vegas, popped open an emergency hatch and was arrested Sunday night...McDonald was aboard Delta Flight 149 bound for McCarran International Airport at about 7:45 p.m. Sunday as it sat on the JFK Airport tarmac during a layover from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Las
Vegas...read_article
"Man Charged in Opening of Plane Door"
NEW YORK TIMES March 30, 2009 By Sewell Chan
...charged with recklessly endangering the lives of passengers by opening an emergency exit door while his plane — delayed for hours — idled on a taxiway during a layover at Kennedy International Airport, the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, announced on Monday...Mr. McDonald was arrested by police officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the
airport...read_article
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plane New York
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PHIL STAUDT'S BLOG ARTICLES:
Why Giving Banks More Money Won't Work March 29, 2009
Obama Is Bankrupting America March 28, 2009
I Had A Stroke and God Is Mean March 27, 2009
Why I Write Blog Articles March 27, 2009
We Pay Taxes To Fix The World Plus Interest Added March 27, 2009
Clinton Blames United States For Mexico March 27, 2009
Border Violence And Drug Money And Guns March 26, 2009
Obama Has Been A Big Disappointment So Far, Just Like Bush Was March 25, 2009
Obama Says No Cash Or Guns In The United States March 25, 2009
Solves Mexico's Border Drug Money And Guns March 25, 2009
Is The United States Too Big To Fail? Another Day, Another Trillion March 23, 2009
Obama's Slip Up On Jay Leno Show And There Is My Aphasia March 21, 2009
The Real Enemy Combatants Are Greed And Selfishness March 19, 2009
Obama Knew About AIG Bonuses, But Is That The Really Big Story? March 19, 2009
No John McCain And No Barack Obama October 26, 2008
The Big Heist Of 2008 September 25, 2008
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