Catherine Mayo
Posted on 08/17/2006 8:08:11 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
(CBS4) BOSTON Criminal charges could be filed Thursday against a Vermont woman who caused a disturbance aboard a London-to-Virginia jet that was diverted to Logan Airport.
59-year-old Catherine Mayo is being held by federal authorities in Boston.
Investigators say she was a claustrophobic passenger who became upset and interfered with the flight crew on United Airlines flight 923 Wednesday morning. The pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed the plane at Logan. The Boeing 767 was escorted by two F-15 jets based out of Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.
Passengers say Mayo paced the aisles and peppered her incoherent mutterings with the word "Pakistan." They said two plainclothes men on board and flight attendants tackled the woman. She was handcuffed while the flight was diverted.
After a day filled with conflicting reports about what she was carrying, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed Mayo had a screwdriver, lighters and matches when she was subdued...
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs4boston.com ...
Nice find. She even says in the letter she was in Vermont on 9/11.
Although the author is probably not her, as you stated....
It wasn't a bad read.....
Would be interesting if it were her.....she might make a good Freeper......
Odd it was posted on a hate Bush website......unless the lefties were looking to grab anything anti-freedom and morph it into their argument against the Patriot Act, etc....
LOL. good one.
.....take the cannoli.
1. This article in yesterday's UK Guardian states that a British intelligence source said the woman was a "journalist."
2. Several articles on the incident now state that the woman was roaming up and down the plane's aisles, muttering something about Pakistan or Pakistanis.
Her letter to Byrd states she's a journalist based in Pakistan.
LOL. I'm sure they will be rushing to her defense soon...
Wow. Good find. Send it to Rush?
ping for later.
Surprise, surprise, a DUer?
An American in Pakistan: A New Kind of Arrogance
by Catherine Mayo
As a Vermonter used to 6 months of snow, two months of mud season, and one month when I can take off my long winter underwear, it is taking me awhile to realise that Pakistani heat is not a one-day event that will go away with a thunderstorm in the morning. The solution I have found is to drink one coke after another - with ice. I’m not sure what a doctor would say about this, but it works. So I am doing all right with the heat. I can’t blame it for the bad mood I woke up with this morning.
I started reading the paper, but then put it down after glancing at the headlines. It gives me a severe case of nerves when I know what the news is before I have read it. Once America decided that "might is right", everything else became a cliché, too. When dissent is not allowed, all truth becomes predictable. But that is not the reason for my bad mood, either. What really bothered me, as I drank my coffee and ate my eggs, was that I had to somehow write a column that told the truth in new ways. It is getting harder and harder. What if one morning I wake up and find that it can’t be done anymore?
Here's the link and a picture of the wench:
I would guess she was missing on her medication...and probably has some bi-polar tendencies as well. Thats just a wild guess...knowing a couple of these folks...and how they can quickly turn into someone else...she appears to show some of the traits.
That's what I was thinking. She's all over the place.
That's probably a 20 year old picture.
Is she related to Howard Dean?
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