Orthodox Jewish man photographed covering himself in plastic bag during flight

Daily Mail ^ | 09:34 EST, 12 April 2013 | NINA GOLGOWSKI and JANINE YAQOOB

[Borges]

[driftdiver]

Did they do a lot of flying in ancient Isreal?

[Jonty30]

If he’s 35 thousand feet over the air, how would he know he’s flying over a cemetery?

At that height, cemeteries must just be everywhere.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Moors....Moops....Moors

[5thGenTexan]

How does the bag make him not fly over a cemetery?

[Izzy Dunne]

How is it that the bag prevents him from flying over a cemetery?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The Pursuit of Happiness?

[FatherofFive]

I wish more libs would tie themselves up in plastic bags.

For whatever reason.

[Vaquero]

A tin foil fodora should have sufficied. Romney wore tin foil magic underwear for all the good that did him. Oh wait he never wanted to get elected

[DLfromthedesert]

Did he wind up in a cemetery?

[driftdiver]

I’m kinda interested to see the ancient text which suggest using plastic to protect yourself while flying.

My guess is he read about all the nasty stuff on airplanes and was grossed out.

[illiac]

Their version of a Ziploc bag?

[Jonty30]

The idea is to prevent any possible contact with a dead body, which makes a person unclean according to the Old Testament.

Although, I can’t see how anybody can be considered to be in contact with the dead from 35 thousand feet.

[faithhopecharity]

ha ha ha!
hilarious!

thanks for sharing this!

(wonder what JanetNapalitano would think of him? ha ha!)

ps: there are thousands of good Orthodox Jews who have not found it necessary, nor probably have they ever even thought of, doing this to themselves. But... there are many other passengers on airplanes these days (starting with most of our political class) that I’d just LOVE to see wrapped up in cellophane to protect all the rest of us from their “cooties” ! What a great idea! Everyone bring Saran warp to the next political fund-raiser you attend! ha ha

[verga]

Did they do a lot of flying in ancient Isreal?

See now that was my first thought.

[svcw]

Does he have oxygen in there?

[Viennacon]

Couldn’t this constitute a risk to his safety in the event of a crash? How could he get to the escape slide?

[wideawake]

At that height, cemeteries must just be everywhere.

I think that's the point.

[seeker41]

Germophob IMO

[PGR88]

No bathroom breaks for him