Passenger’s lawyer calls her ‘crazy’[United 932 follow-up]

Boston Herald ^ | August 18, 2006 | Jessica Heslam

[giotto]

Mayo wrote that “the folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush.

I didn't realize we had Bush to thank for that.

[3AngelaD]

What I don't understand is how, if she is so loony, she managed to board the plane in the first place, with contraband no less. Nor do I understand how someone this far gone managed to purchase a ticket and get to the airport on time.

[CindyDawg]

That's what I meant. We don't know what she was going to do so we can't just pat her on the back and say she was just having a bad day and is harmless..

[MinuteGal]

I wonder what kind of pen the "pen pal" in Pakistan planned on providing this peripatetic passenger to pack in her portmanteau for a possible "Pow!" plane passage.

Leni

[kjam22]

If he had just said "Crazy Moonbat"... he would have been right on target.

[frankenMonkey]

I guess someone forgot to tell her to stay away from the blue acid.

[CindyDawg]

He may have been with her. That bothers me because, would they have known that she had one and the name of her "boyfiend" before releasing the rest of the passengers?

[LikeLight]

...the crew enlisted the help of two passengers - a U.S. air marshal and a correction officer...

That's a new tidbit of info (who the "passengers" were who tackled her). And the fact that the Air Marshal was concerned about the "diversion" aspect, as have been many FReepers. Can't wait to see the "awful" pics she has - I think she was at the AQ hideouts with her confirmed muslim Pakistani fiance.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"WHEN DEAN SUPPORTERS ATTACK!"

[LikeLight]

She had come into Heathrow from Pakistan via Dubai - the place she cleared security was apparently Pakistan, and after that she was in the system.

[thinking]

Yes...so, now lawyers are versed in mental health diagnoses

[LikeLight]

Yeah, wonder if her fiance "Junaid" was on board? He could be at large in the U.S. right now, for all we know.

[freeperfromnj]

think she was at the AQ hideouts with her confirmed muslim Pakistani fiance.

I read that she spent time in the mountains of Pakistan. If that's the case her comment about being part of the group with two names would make sense.

[Kenton]

I wonder if they did a drug test on this old hippy. Maybe what other people who care about her dismiss as being crazy is just the results of an excess of recreational pharmaceuticals while she was waiting to board the plane.

Just a WAG on my par, maybe I'm way off on this one... all you have to do is look at Cindi "George Bush Killed My Son" Sheehan and the Code Pinkos to see similar signs of group insanity, and the conventional wisdom is that they're nuts.

But I still wonder if they did a drug test. And I hope they come down on her pretty hard. And if she's really that whacky, I hope the put her away someplace where she can get the help she so badly needs, or at least some deprogramming to help with her leftwing dementia.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[A judge ordered Mayo held until a court hearing next Thursday.]

"Give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo."

[thinking]

well, for starters...have you travelled through any British air terminals...if not, please allow me to advise you, that 85 % of the security people checking passengers are not/NOT your typical British blue eyed citizens, in fact, buying your ticket, taking a taxi to the terminal, and clearing security, you will never see a pair of blue eyes....so it is not difficult to postulate, that this "irrational" women, was a test run, passing through the various levels of security with a minimal inspection....

[3AngelaD]

But right now you have to undergo another search before you get on the next leg of your flight. I just went through it.

[Oratam]

“Wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt, baggy pants and white socks, a long-haired Catherine C. Mayo, 59. . ."

Mayo wrote that "the folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush.”

I remember a psychologist positing we all are pretty much nostalgic about our late teens and early twenties as that was when we felt most alive and sexy. Aging and unrepentant hippies are walking case studies for this theory.

Also, “She has a very serious mental illness. This case is not about terrorism.”

I beg to differ. It’s a requirement of terrorism.

[subazak]

>"Vermont peace activist"

How very progressive of her!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

She sounds like she's about ready...


...for a move to Ithaca.