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Or helicopter... because that's probably the most I've ever felt like I was going to die... and it was AMAZING

My Dad and I took a tour of Mt St Helens with some guy who owned a helicopter basically, he had been a military pilot... the guy was NUTS... he would pop over mountain tops and let us freefall, it was insane.... my Mom and Sister went with a guy who worked for a big company with all kinds of restrictions and things to sign and they said it was cool seeing the things around there but the ride itself was
 
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 I hate to fly so I always get dosed up before boarding the plane.My wife and I were leaving out of Dulles at 6:45 am for Miami. and I was toting a 44 oz. Super Big Gulp poisined with 151 rum.I accidently kicked it over and it flowed towards the row of seats directly behind us.Well I was really pissed at my stupidity and shouted an expletive.The next thing that I knew I was being interviewed by U.S. Secret Service agents as Attorney General Janet Reno was being wisked away to safety.
 
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Wow,  That is absurd.  Good story


I have a feeling this could be a good thread
 
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i was in college and was supposed to fly home 1 saturday morning from the local airport.  after checking in my flight got delayed ~4 hrs, so i went tailgating in the meantime.  god knows how many beers later, but i was pretty hammered, i get on the plane to fly home and immediately pass out.  when i wake up, my ass is soaking wet, i dont think i pissed myself but i have no idea what happened.  of course my bag, which i checked in initially in the morning, was no where to be found.... i got it later that evening.
 
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That story leaves a ton of loose ends steveshane, I have no idea what happened to you
 
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I know a guy who with several associates threw another guy out of a helicopter at 1000 feet to see if he could fly...
 
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Apparently, according to the guy, he could not...
 
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What's that line about needing pictures to prove the story?  I'm drawing a blank.
 
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Is it 'this thread is useless without pics?'  Seriously, is that it?  What is the most common way that it is said on covers... that can't be it.


...it's not I'll be following this system closely... hmmmmm
 
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Clearly since this was not me I certainly don't have any pictures and can only go on the word of that other guy who did this which .you know, was not me.And of course even if this was me, which it is not,I certainly couldn't share pictures on an open forum such as this, especially since I had no previous knowledge of this incident and would not have taken any pictures anyway even if it was me which of course it was not...
 
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Ive had nothing major, knock on wood...worst experience ever was this I guess...

Flying home from Europe on a big 777. Flight is going great...There is a young girl sitting behind my family and I, very good looking Blond..maybe 18-20, really soft spoken from the island of Cyprus. She was coming here to study abroad. I was eves dropping on her conversation with the little old lady sitting next to her haha..

well the flight is 12 hours long..Istanbul to Chicago. This older gentleman sitting maybe 20 rows or ahead of us is constantly getting up to stretch, and talking loud....heavily drinking...its about 6-8 hours into the flight and this guy is wasted..and walking up and down the aisles... he sees this blond girl, and starts talking to her...slurred speech and all. Eventually he is blantantly hitting on her, telling her how hot she is, and what he would do with her..so a bunch of up stand up for her..and Im getting into it with this guy...along with a few other passengers and this asshole. Then the little old lady calls the guy an asshole and tells him to go sit down, and the guy yells out "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, BARBARA BUSH? ARE YOU FUCKING BARBARA BUSH?" lol....so this ladies old husband gets up and starts swearing at this guy...the flight attendants rush over...I stand up in between this moron and the older guy...and the guy shoves me...so Im about to fucking go to blows with this moron on the airplane lol..but I held back.  Finally this idiots wife comes running from the front of the plane..(she was sleeping) and is trying to get her husband to come back to his seat.  This jackass wants to fight the old man right there in our row lol. So the flight attendants are calling the cockpit, and saying we are going to have to land immediately when we reach the US to have this drunk removed.  BUt we are still over the ocean.  Finally the drunks wife gets him to calm down and go back to his seat where he passed out a few minutes later I guess.

The plane lands comfortably in Chicago, and the police are waiting for this jackass when we land. The wake him up and take him into custody as we land, and the fucker has no idea what happened. He was so wasted, he had no idea he was verbally assaulting these people lol



 
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Quote Originally Posted by CountNo_Account:

Clearly since this was not me I certainly don't have any pictures and can only go on the word of that other guy who did this which .you know, was not me.And of course even if this was me, which it is not,I certainly couldn't share pictures on an open forum such as this, especially since I had no previous knowledge of this incident and would not have taken any pictures anyway even if it was me which of course it was not...


Oh.
 
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HAHAHAHA that avatar is great



Here's a story from my Dad... he used to travel every weekend for work, so he's had a lot of crazy plane experiences.  He was a volunteer fireman, and a hobby of his was using a scanner to listen to pretty much anything -- he'd listen to coaches at my high schools football games, listen to the pilot sometimes on a flight if there was something going on, etc. ... I guess there was a bad storm and the airport was down to one runway, because the other one had crosswinds that made the landing more difficult, and there were at least a half-dozen planes doing their loops around the airport waiting to make their approach... the air controllers go from pilot to pilot asking if any of them want to land on the other runway which is open but has have side winds... each pilot says no... no... no.... his pilot decides they'll give it a shot, he's feeling lucky.  It would be a strange situation since you would be the only person who knows your taking a little bit of a gamble... was a rough landing but nothing too bad.  I guess that was pretty long and anticlimactic.  Hope the disappointment doesn't send protostar over the edge...
 
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are you barbara bush

I hate drunks... I don't know how you didn't lose it but it's a good thing, or the cops would have been arresting you too.
 
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About 17 years ago I flew to England in a plane that had about 1/4 of the seats filled. All the passangers were streched out over 3 seats sleeping about 2 hours into the flight. 

When I was a kid I got hit in the shoulder with a big rock and never had it attended to. It's never sore but I sometimes feel a twinge in it when I think about it.

For some reason I guess the altitude really set it off and there was no way I could sleep like everyone else.....The only ones awake were the pilot, co-pilot, myself and the stewardess making me drinks.

Then something happened that you will never see happen these days again..... I hit it off well with the stewardess and she talked the pilot into allowing me to come up to the cockpit .....I grabbed my camera and got a picture of the horizen with the sun just coming up and another of me with the pilots hat on and my arm around the stewardess. I was up there for about 20 minutes chatting with them.  So cool.

 
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Certainly won't happen now They used to let kids who were scared go up and meet the pilots and see the cockpit... good luck getting in there now.
 
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Any time I have been stupid enough to fly with American Airlines. 3 hour flights are 2 hours late. 

Worst airline on the planet.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Spitfire15:

HAHAHAHA that avatar is great



Here's a story from my Dad... he used to travel every weekend for work, so he's had a lot of crazy plane experiences.  He was a volunteer fireman, and a hobby of his was using a scanner to listen to pretty much anything -- he'd listen to coaches at my high schools football games, listen to the pilot sometimes on a flight if there was something going on, etc. ... I guess there was a bad storm and the airport was down to one runway, because the other one had crosswinds that made the landing more difficult, and there were at least a half-dozen planes doing their loops around the airport waiting to make their approach... the air controllers go from pilot to pilot asking if any of them want to land on the other runway which is open but has have side winds... each pilot says no... no... no.... his pilot decides they'll give it a shot, he's feeling lucky.  It would be a strange situation since you would be the only person who knows your taking a little bit of a gamble... was a rough landing but nothing too bad.  I guess that was pretty long and anticlimactic.  Hope the disappointment doesn't send protostar over the edge...

Reminds me of sex

 
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I think you're doing it wrong.
 
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14 hr international flight with babies and kids around me near the back of the plane - SF to Seoul. Let's just say I invested in a noise cancelling headset on the return flight.

 

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Spitfire15:

I think you're doing it wrong.

That's not what your girl says

 
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In October I had a Phoenix to Baltimore early Saturday morning direct flight (5 hours). I worked Friday night thinking I could get off early, it didn't happen. I overslept for the flight, ended up with a middle isle seat. Of course I'm looking for skinny people on both sides which I do find.

I had a middle-aged woman to my left and a middle aged man to my right (window seat). He's got a binder open on the tray table. He's looking toward the window and he's talking and talking (on a bluetooth)? We're getting ready to takeoff and the flight attendant comes up and says "Sir, would you please put the tray table up", we're taking off. He turns toward me, no bluetooth, he's carrying on a conversation with himself! I wanted to ask her to tell him to stop talking to his imaginary friend as well.

He's a lefty and he has OCD. He's scribbling in this binder with a red marker and blue pen like a fucking maniac, I'm stressed out before we even take-off. He's throwing the elbow around while he's writing. I spent half the flight in the back wrapping with the flight attendant.

Moral to the story is not only look for skinny people, you also have to perform a cursory mental evaluation as you pass the rows. 


 
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When I was invited into the cockpit and the pilot asked me if I enjoyed movies about gladiators.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by artie-lange:

When I was invited into the cockpit and the pilot asked me if I enjoyed movies about gladiators.

That's a sweet story

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