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Flight escorted by FIGHTER JETS after cabin crew put passenger's cat in bathroom and she threatened
Daily Mail UK + AP. ^ | August 30, 2015 | Chris Kitching

Posted on 08/30/2015 9:20:04 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Two fighter jets were scrambled to escort a passenger jet that was forced to make an emergency landing after a woman on board allegedly became unruly over her cat.

Passengers on board the Condor Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt claimed the woman brought her cat onto the plane and became enraged when her pet was put in a lavatory by cabin crew.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Gen.Blather
The sheriff of a nearby county where I own rentals regularly uses his SWAT unit with their 6-ton tank to arrest people. In most cases they used to send one deputy. But now they have a SWAT and the crew gets extra danger pay. Money to burn, for sure.

- Kind of reminds me of something I heard (or read) many years ago about TV shows: "the rifle that hangs above the mantelpiece in the first act will be used to shoot someone in the third act."

21 posted on 08/30/2015 9:38:43 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Gen.Blather

Tanks start at 30 tons - 6 tons is a glortified pickup.


22 posted on 08/30/2015 9:47:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The woman put everyone on that plane in extreme danger. If they thought she was attempting to bring the plane down as she threatened to do, that flight could have been immediately shot down out of the sky, to neutralize the problem from spreading once it landed. She should be blocked from flying if carrying a cat in her purse is the only way it works.


23 posted on 08/30/2015 9:50:55 AM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: ConservativeStatement

She should be prosecuted.


24 posted on 08/30/2015 9:52:52 AM PDT by sport
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To: golux

There’s a direct flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt?


LOL!! THAT ^^ was my take, from this article, too ;-)


25 posted on 08/30/2015 9:55:14 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: dfwgator

Answer here but don’t give her a chute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eabz4V-tvU


26 posted on 08/30/2015 9:55:20 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: lee martell
The woman put everyone on that plane in extreme danger. If they thought she was attempting to bring the plane down as she threatened to do, that flight could have been immediately shot down out of the sky, to neutralize the problem from spreading once it landed.

If they had shot the plane down, the only survivor would have been the cat. Cats always land on their feet, and of course have nine lives.

27 posted on 08/30/2015 9:56:01 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

So true, for cats and rats and democrats.


28 posted on 08/30/2015 9:59:05 AM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: PIF

Probably one of those MRAPs they were handing out like party favors a few years ago.

CC


29 posted on 08/30/2015 10:02:29 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: nuconvert; mickie; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; flaglady47; Q-ManRN; NautiNurse
"She said she was part of the Mafia and that the Mafia follows her around the world......"

Obviously one of Trump's "mental health issues" cases.

He's correct. Re-open long-term mental health homes like we had in better days. The libs oppose this...and this is what we get.

BTW, does she have family and, if so, do they know she's flying around the world with the Mafia protecting her?

Leni

30 posted on 08/30/2015 10:09:49 AM PDT by MinuteGal (It's Not "Immigration", Stupid....IT'S INVASION !")
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To: Jane Long; golux

“Condor has 11 Boeing 767 longhaul aircraft, some of which are configured with more business class seats than others. This allows the airline to assign those aircraft to flights that have more premium demand than others. For example, Las Vegas and Seattle have significant demand in the premium cabin, and they routinely get the bigger business class cabin aircraft”


31 posted on 08/30/2015 10:16:46 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: PIF

“Tanks start at 30 tons - 6 tons is a glorified pickup.”

It’s one of the ones being used in Afghanistan. It outclasses everybody’s ability to take defensive actions hereabout. Assuming, of course, somebody wanted to.


32 posted on 08/30/2015 10:21:16 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Just give me a roll of duct tape and I’ll take care of the problem.


33 posted on 08/30/2015 10:21:53 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: BenLurkin

Brilliant!


34 posted on 08/30/2015 10:23:14 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: ConservativeStatement
  1. She smuggled the cat through TSA security.
  2. TSA missed the cat.
  3. What would the Germans do on the other end of the flight when they saw the cat?
  4. Terroristic threats aren't worth a charge?
  5. Will she make the Do Not Fly list?
  6. What did this incident cost the airline? the gubermint?

35 posted on 08/30/2015 10:36:52 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: ConservativeStatement

So what happened to the cat?

36 posted on 08/30/2015 10:39:14 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: ConservativeStatement

These guys will do anything for pussy...


37 posted on 08/30/2015 10:42:54 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ConservativeStatement

A woman brought a very limp parrot into a veterinary hospital. As she lay her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest. After a moment or two, the Vet shook his head sadly and said, “I’m so sorry, Polly has passed
away.”

The distressed owner wailed, “Are you sure? I mean, you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”

The vet rolled his eyes, shrugged, turned and left the room returning a few moments later with beautiful black Labrador. As the bird’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the dead parrot from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet led the dog out but returned a few moments later with a cat. The cat jumped up and also sniffed delicately at the ex-bird. The cat sat back, shook its head, meowed and ran out of the room. The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry; but like I said, your parrot is most definitely, 100% certifiably ...dead.”

He then turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill which he handed to the woman. The parrot’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried. “$150 just to tell me my bird is dead?!”

The vet shrugged. “If you’d taken my word for it, the bill would only have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, what did you expect?”


38 posted on 08/30/2015 10:44:39 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They could have locked her in the restroom with the cat. Doesn’t the toilet have a seatbelt?

I remember a flight when it should have! : (


39 posted on 08/30/2015 10:46:57 AM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Our cat, Brutus, is, like most cats, spoiled, restless & wants what she wants when she wants it. There is no way I would inflict her on other people. Cats go where they want to go, even if it is straight up.


40 posted on 08/30/2015 11:00:36 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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