A Newcastle court recently heard the case of a drunk passenger who admitted to committing a dangerous offence when he stole life jackets from an easyJet aircraft. On February 04, Alexander Bolam was flying from Bristol to Newcastle after getting hammered on 10 bottles of beer. When the plane arrived at Newcastle Airport, the 23-year-old [...]
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207 Pounds of Dead Caterpillars Found in Luggage
Its amazing what customs agents find in luggage nowadays. The latest bizarre airport seizure occurred at London Gatwick Airport, where authorities discovered 207 pounds (94 kilograms) of dead caterpillars in one traveller’s luggage! I repeat – 207 pounds! The 22-year-old man, travelling from Burkina Faso, claimed the caterpillars were intended as food for personal consumption. [...]
Scientists Say To Let Farts Fly On Airplanes
The next time you’re on an airplane and you feel an urgent rumbling in your bum, don’t hold it in! Sure, you’ll get some disapproving looks from your seat mates, but a recent study finds that holding in your farts on an airplane is bad for your health. We know that you have many questions [...]
Is That An Endangered Primate In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
There is a loris somewhere in India seeking trauma counselling and a contamination shower right now. Officials at the Indira New Delhi International Airport recently detained a man trying to get through security with a primate in his underwear. The guards were conducting a routine pat-down of a Dubai bound passenger when they discovered a [...]
Drunk passenger relieves himself in the airplane aisle
Gross! A drunk New Zealand airline passenger who relieved himself in an airplane aisle, splashing other passengers in the process, was let off with just a warning about his behaviour. The man was travelling on a Jetstar flight from Auckland to Singapore on Monday when he urinated in the aisle about six hours into the [...]
Elderly Woman Has to Remove Diaper for Pat-Down
Just when you think it couldn’t get worse, the TSA has reached a new all-time low!!! An ill 95-year-old woman had to remove her wet diaper at an airport so that she could be patted down by security screeners. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Man flys US Airways in bra and panties
A man who flies US Airways wearing women’s undergarments says that he does so to make business travel more fun. Well, that is certainly one way, I suppose. The 65-year-old Phoenix man works as a business consultant and flies several times a month with US Airways. He’s flown in scanty female clothing for several years [...]
Woman caught with $170,000 in her underwear
So get this….back in June 2010, 64-year old Claire Abdeldaim was caught at New York’s Kennedy Airport with nearly $170,000 hidden in her underwear. As part of a scam to avoid paying taxes on the sale of her late husband’s property in Sudan, Abdeldaim had sewn the bills into her knickers. Abdeldaim had flown from [...]
Women tried to smuggle corpse onto plane
Earlier this week, we heard the bizarre story of a mother and daughter who were arrested at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport after they tried to take a corpse onto a plane. The 91-year-old deceased man was pushed in a wheelchair through the airport wearing sunglasses before check-in staff became suspicious and he was prevented from [...]
Drunk man found sleeping behind jet engine
Where is the strangest place you woke up after a night of drinking? We’re sure it doesn’t rank in stupidity as the young man who was recently discovered napping behind the engine of an Indian Airlines Airbus A-320 at the New Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport. Fortunately, he was found during an inspection two hours before [...]
