Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid' ["She's got some very serious mental health problems."..]

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[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.

[Sub-Driver]

dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, black pants and socks without shoes????

[stm]

She sounds like a perfect successor to Howlin' Howie.

[BigTex5]

I don't know if this has been brought up, but I find it curious that these people who freak out on planes always freak out when coming HERE. Why don't they freak out when they leave here and go International?

[SpaceBar]

Did she publish papers about abstract differential vector spaces?

[johniegrad]

I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane

Hide a file in her birthday cake, Josh, and, oh by the way, hold the Mayo.

[stm]

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

The acorn (as in nut) never falls far from the tree does it?

[antiRepublicrat]

"She's got some very serious mental health problems."

She's a liberal?

[NormsRevenge]

Yup, she votes democRat religiously.

[Beckwith]

Any woman who runs to Pakistan to meet a man has more than mental problems.

[Nickname]

Serious mental problems?

Maybe she converted to islam during her stay in Pakistan with her "pen pal."

[Dont Mention the War]

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March.

[GSlob]

"arely lucid"
The lucidity could be speedily restored by administering large enemas every 30 minutes for, say, 48 hours, or till improvement, whichever takes longer. Such a treatment is [sometimes] successful even against leftitis.

[linear]

Ok,perhaps I'm now overly cynical, but does the accompanying picture of the couple embracing look a like a poor cut-and-paste job to anyone else?

[Lady Jag]

freak out on planes always freak out when coming HERE. Why don't they freak out when they leave here and go International?

The answer is obvious.   They're more comfortable with the abnormal.

[Theresawithanh]

"Very serious mental health problems"? Quite an understatement.

I feel a little bit sorry for the Vermont (apparently) moonbat, but I wonder if she ran out of her medications. Remember the one flight disruptor a while back whose wife said he was on medications and hadn't been able to take them?

[BallyBill]

and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

Yea, because of people like your stinkin' hippy mom.

[thoughtomator]

Would that be the same person as "Cathy Mayo, an American journalist based in Pakistan"? Could there possibly be two people with the same first and last names and profession?

Why yes, I think it is

[VOA]

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.

'Nuf said!

[Lady Jag]

They used a super-wide angle lens . . . look at the crowd photo in the accompanying slide show; you can see the effect better.

[MEGoody]

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist

Well, of course she is. She has mental health problems.