Posted on 07/18/2012 6:18:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Airline officials are trying to figure out if there is anything to be done after a Georgia congressman urinated into a cup on a flight from Washington to Atlanta on Thursday night.
Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Hartsfield Airport on Delta Flight 1717, got up to go to the bathroom after the mandatory half-hour when passengers must stay seated, but found the lavatories on the airplane occupied, his office and aviation sources said.
Sanford then asked a flight attendant for a cup, and "may" have said he intended to relieve himself, his office said.
He went to a section of the plane between the cockpit and first-class, then urinated into the cup, said Bishop spokesman Selby McCash, who described the congressman as "a very gracious and courtly gentleman."
No one accused him of exposing himself to the flight attendants or crew.
Controversy Over Dire Straits
There is some disagreement, however, over how dire the congressman's straits were.
McCash said Bishop had drunk a large amount of coffee, the flight had been delayed, and by the time the half-hour in the air was up, long lines for the bathroom formed at either end of the plane.
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#39 beat me to the question “Where did he put the cup when finished”?
Couple of years ago there was a big stink over trucker leaving their ‘p bottles’ along side of the road (well, the powers that be blamed the truckers).
Of course, if you pull over and go behind the nearest tree, todays world will lock you up for indecent exposure if the right’wrong’ person observes you.
Get to a certain age and a #1 becomes a #2 in short shrift - then your ‘problems’ really start.
He just had to go hang out in first class.
Bladder? Ha!
Look at the budgets from congress and it’s obvious all congressmen, acquire a disability: they’re unable to plan ahead- for anything.
I certainly don’t expect a congressman to consider when or how he’ll expel something he ingests.
There is no evidence for anyone to think so.
>> I acknoledged that I would be taking my chances with safety, but the flight attendants were helpful and accommodating.
Of course they were accommodating, because the alternative is: “We’ll be landing shortly; please pass any remaining service items to the center aisle for collecion by a flight attendant.”
;-)
Make him stay in a middle seat from now on.
-PJ
Gonna go downtown, gonna mess around, gonna show my ding dong.
But that's how it goes in GA.
The alternative is sticking it out in the slipstream.
Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
LOL!
He needs to get his prostate checked out.
I’ll give him a pass. He did the best he could for all concerned.
When I saw the headline and ABC News as the source, I figured that the congressman had to be a Republican. Well, I was surprised!
“Get to a certain age and a #1 becomes a #2 in short shrift - then your ‘problems’ really start.”
It’s called being on the verge of an “industrial accident”.
“It does have a little wang to it.”
I hate to . . . umm . . . “rain on your parade” but this is a story from 2002.
Of course Bishop is an Obama cheerleader, voted for Obamacare, cast the deciding vote in favor of the assault rifle ban back in the 90s and never met a spending program he didn’t love.
No time to read the thread (it’s late), but plenty of time to abolish the TSA and add their numbers to U3/U6.
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