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Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid' ["She's got some very serious mental health problems."..]
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Posted on 08/17/2006 1:31:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid'

By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

She was dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, black pants and socks without shoes for the hearing and was ordered held pending a detention and probable cause hearing next Thursday.

Her attorney, federal public defender Page Kelley, said Mayo was "just barely lucid" when they spoke. "She's got some very serious mental health problems."

U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said he hoped to learn more about Mayo's mental state before the next court appearance. "We believe it's important during that time period to have a doctor examine her," he said.

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said. The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added.

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; barkingmoonbat; bds; bushderangement; bushhasser; bushhater; catherinemayo; flight923; liberalactivist; mediawar; mentalhealth; peaceactivist; redgreenalliance
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To: Lady Jag

I can't think of a reason why this would be faked, but it just looked odd to my untrained eye.


21 posted on 08/17/2006 1:48:38 PM PDT by linear (Nuance treats reality as a mere Rorschach test.)
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To: thoughtomator

In the one article she had the quote from MASH about "..pulling down your pants and sliding on the ice".

I wonder if that's what she was tring to do when she peed on the airplane aisle?


22 posted on 08/17/2006 1:49:06 PM PDT by geopyg (If the carrot doesn't work, use the stick. Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

Yep, your mom smuggled a screw driver, cigarette lighters and matches in her purse, talked about entering a Pakistan illegaly, pulled her pants down and peed on the aisle, but everyone else is paranoid!

23 posted on 08/17/2006 1:50:23 PM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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To: thoughtomator

And furthermore I would guess that "Catherine Mayo" is not her given name, but rather an assumed one. Why do I say this? Because "Catherine Mayo" is the Pakistan-loving author of a book written in 1927 called "Mother India" which made her name a synonym for India-bashing. "When Catherine Mayo brought out her notorious book "Mother India," Mahatma Gandhi called it a "drain inspector's report." A 69 year old woman today would have been born in 1936 or 1937.


25 posted on 08/17/2006 1:51:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: geopyg

I'd say it's even odds that her stunt was purposeful and that she is far more lucid than her lawyer claims.


26 posted on 08/17/2006 1:52:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ; linear

I caught that too. The picture is real, if you blow it up you can see that the white outline is an effect of the light on her hair, it does not show evidence of tampering.


27 posted on 08/17/2006 1:53:59 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dress her down to make a good "case".

To me, anyone who slashes the throats of the air staff (close hand to hand and premeditated murder of total strangers) and deliberately crashes a plane into a building to kill thousands of other strangers is mentally ill.

But not "warped" enough to excuse the behavior or escape a death sentence.

And in the wake of 9-11, Robert Reid, and others. If you go bug**** in the air, the use of lethal force to take you down should not be debated.

I don't recall the press being this sympathetic about the corporate executive who had a "bad reaction" between his medication and drinks and deficated on a food tray.


28 posted on 08/17/2006 1:55:25 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: linear
You are absolutely right; that photo does not look right. It was not the right lens for a shot like that. You want to use a super-wide to get more of the crowd into the photo. I see different that lenses were used, so this might have been a spur of the moment shot.
29 posted on 08/17/2006 1:55:33 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated)
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To: Sub-Driver

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid,"

I'd say peeing on the floor is a bit more than "a bit of a bad time".


30 posted on 08/17/2006 1:56:15 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: linear

No its real. The halo around her head is probably just some backlighting, although it does look like a white fringe from pasting. Somebody may have thought her head blended into the background too much and put a little line around it to bring it out.


31 posted on 08/17/2006 1:56:26 PM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: thoughtomator

by Catherine Mayo

As a Vermonter used to 6 months of snow...


32 posted on 08/17/2006 1:56:55 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

Notice she discusses Plato a lot for someone who is "barely lucid".


33 posted on 08/17/2006 1:58:17 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: thoughtomator
"They are not surprised that Saddam Hussein cannot be found..." C. Mayo
34 posted on 08/17/2006 1:58:25 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: demkicker

I wonder how she got those things on the plane so easily!


35 posted on 08/17/2006 2:00:16 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: thoughtomator

When was that photo taken? She doesn't look 60 there.


36 posted on 08/17/2006 2:00:16 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

Link inside this thread. Surprise, she's a "peace activist" and a Bush hating journalist.

This is what happens when liberals attack.


37 posted on 08/17/2006 2:00:30 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Sub-Driver

So many South Park quotes come to mind.


38 posted on 08/17/2006 2:00:41 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: Sub-Driver

OK - I just had to check the DUmpster:

meisje (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-17-06 04:38 PM
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9. She's clearly a republican plant to make the peace movement look bad


LOL! I needed a good chuckle!


39 posted on 08/17/2006 2:00:45 PM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I've been rocked.)
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To: Hoodlum91

LOL.
That's a riot!


40 posted on 08/17/2006 2:01:56 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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