She has "backlighting" coming from either a flash or a bright spotlight (say on a news videocamera). You see an "eclipsed" effect as her head is blocking much of the light source.
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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Will Savage tell us tonight that, "liberalism is a mental disorder."
I've sent the link to Fox News.
See if it makes "The Grapevine" or O'Reilly Factor.
She has "backlighting" coming from either a flash or a bright spotlight (say on a news videocamera). You see an "eclipsed" effect as her head is blocking much of the light source.
She'd make DU look good!!!
No idea, but I'd gather it was quite some time ago. That's the photo the Pak paper runs with her diatribes.
She's a liberal?
I'm betting on BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)
Because the security system is inept. Until everyone adopts El Al's way of screening passengers, air travelers will remain vunerable to terrorits.
DUmmies PING.
"9. She's clearly a republican plant to make the peace movement look bad"
It's just the way the light is hitting the wife's hair. If it were that bad a job, the husband would be outlined too.
Bit by a rabid barking moonbat. Someone have Cindy Sheehan blood tested...
Correction I misread the age, it's 59 and therefore she was born in 1946 or 1947.
Neither does that photo of Mary Kay Ash that you always see, because both MKA's photo and that of the lovely Mrs. Mayo are WAY old.
You are freakin' kidding.
Man oh man, you're NOT kidding.
Hoo boy.
"of Braintree, Vt"
This fruit fell pretty far from THAT tree.
One of Cindy Sheehan's hags, no doubt. Guess Sheehan didn't have room for Mayo at her new Texas digs.
I think I heard Savage say that once, awhile back.
Yeah, the Pajamasphere has definitively confirmed that this is the same Cathy Mayo. And the results are astounding. I'd recommend reading her "letter" from Pakistan to the prisoners at Club Gitmo. That's one for the ages.
"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."
The truth is stranger than fiction.
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