Posted on 02/11/2017 10:36:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s not uncommon to feel the urge for an airport drink that can help manage your flying anxieties (or boredom). That’s why there are so many airport bars in the country’s busiest airports. But be aware: If you try to bring your own form of liquid relief onto a plane in the form of a nip (or mini) bottle of liquor, you’re going to have a bad time.
That’s what Lucy Yallop found on her flight from Newcastle, England, to Alicante, Spain. She tried to spike her orange juice with a mini of Absolut Vodka she’d brought onto the flight, but was called out by the flight crew. She was greeted by two Spanish police officers and three security guards when she landed, and then had to find a different return flight home.
“I never thought a miniature bottle of vodka would cause so much trouble,” Yallop told Metro. But it did, and, not to sound too much like an alarmist, it can happen to you, too.
Yallop’s trouble started before she even boarded the flight. She bought a mini of vodka in the waiting room, but only got half of it down before she was ushered onto the plane. Yallop and her two friends ordered soft drinks and the steward told them that they couldn’t drink their own alcohol, which wasn’t a problem for Yallop’s friends because they were on antibiotics. But for Yallop, there was half a mini bottle of vodka waiting.
“I knew I shouldn’t, but I knew I had the single measure in my bag and tried to put it in my orange,” Yallop told Metro. “The steward came from nowhere and said, ‘what have you got in your hand?’ It was embarrassing. I didn’t have time to pour it into my orange and he took it from me, put it in my handbag and we all had to put our hand luggage in the overhead lockers”
It was, in Yallop’s words, “a naughty schoolgirl thing” to do. It’s not just on international flights from England to Spain that this can happen, either. Airlines around the world have had it with these mini bottles of alcohol on these not so mini planes. The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations in the United States is explicit when it states that “no person may drink any alcoholic beverage aboard an aircraft unless the certificate holder operating the aircraft has served that beverage to him.” Or her, because women like their on-flight drinks just as much as men do.
“I know I was in the wrong but easyJet’s reaction was so over the top,” Yallop told Metro. “I didn’t even drink it. However, my advice to anyone is do not attempt to drink your own alcohol on a plane, no matter how little.”
Sage advice indeed.
Something wrong when you can’t just leave the bottle in your bag until the flight is over
She looks like a very dangerous woman. Do you see the size of her pearly whites? Thank goodness the authorities were able to put a stop to her criminal behavior. /s
Seems to me the flight crew over reacted. She allowed the steward to take the little bottle of Vodka away from her, place in a purse and store the purse in the overhead, out of reach. Yet, she had police waiting for her and missed a connecting flight? Why? Over a tiny amount of alcohol that she could no longer drink?
Maybe something was left out. Maybe she ran her mouth and started arguing with them. At least I know it’s not just American flights where the rules are so strict and rigid.
“It’s my Nerve Tonic”
After looking at her pic...... I would not being wrong either.
Whitest teeth I have ever seen. Fiscally responsible. (Not buying way way overpriced mini bottles.) Big assed happy grin. Either oblivious or a con. Haven’t seen a lib with anything but this on their face in a while ;-( I would if I were younger and single give it a go. Might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but looks damned good as arm candy without the evil me me me me of feminism.
She’d do in a pinch.
If I wasn’t old, fat and poor, she would be mine.
>> That’s why there are so many airport bars in the country’s busiest airports.
Figured it was motivation to get the airport early.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mortified-mum-caught-sneaking-miniature-9692386
I always bring my own little bottles when I go on vacation. Sometimes, I have been allowed to use it on the plane, other times, not. Never been a big deal and my 99 cent bottle is a lot less expensive than theirs. If I can’t drink it on the plane, I have my drinks where ever I stay.
Oh, and there have been times, I buy a coke at the fast food place before boarding. I am always allowed to take that on board(and it is spiked). I drink at the airport. It is my thing, I guess, cuz I don’t care for flying.
Presumably, the regulation is keep the cabin crew in control of alcohol consumption. They don't always succeed.
Consider the case of the late Gerard Buckley Finneran, a banker expert in Latin American debt instruments, who got thirsty on a 1995 flight from Buenos Aires to New York. You can read the details on TSG (page 2 cites the relvant regulation). Finneran was a member of the Air Force Academy's first graduating class.
“Here’s her real picture. Guilty!”
Mmmmmm, no, I disagree, not guilty! Except for that nose thingy, that’s not good.
Back in the day, I always brought my own liquor on board. Why spend the money if could just throw a small bottle or flask in your purse. Times sure have changed.
“The three ladies were quiet, they weren’t boisterous, they were nice ladies. The woman in question certainly wasn’t drunk. She was sober and when she got off the plane she was walking in a straight line and acting normal. She didn’t argue back or anything like that. . . .
“The male cabin crew on the plane who caught her with the little bottle was a bit of a jobsworth but he was also a nice man. I just think the incident got right out of hand and it could have been handled differently.”
jobsworth: a minor official who insists on following regulations to the letter, especially with the intention of being deliberately obstructive
The big crime was the airline couldn’t charge her 10 bucks for it.
Not if you fly Carrie Nation Airlines.
The headline is misleading. It’s not a “bad idea.” It’s just forbidden in our totalitarian nanny states.
kinky. never considered the nose. the other end is where my concern lies.
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