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Lately, drunk passengers seem to be coming up in the news more often. Grandma (not my grandma) was jailed after she went off on a drunk tirade in flight.  Oh, and she was swigging from a bottle of vodka too. Lamar Odom got way too drunk off whiskey and beer …

This was my greatest fear as a child.  I always worried that I could slide right out of one of those open top water slides, and my parents insisted it would never happen. Now my worst nightmare has come true, but to someone else. A man on a water slide …

Passengers on an American Airlines flight out of Palm Beach (PBI) to Philadelphia (PHL) had to evacuate after there was a leak.   Initially, the airline believed the leak was a fuel leak, which is *bad*. From CNN: The crew of American Airlines Flight 1822 reported a leak, the FAA …

A man on a British Airways flight was met with a police escort after threatening passengers in the air.  It is not clear whether or not he was actually drinking, but the crew certainly thought so. From a passenger interviewed by the Express: She said: “I noticed when we got on …

The latest in crazy-in-the-sky news is that a passenger on a Hawaiian Airlines flight was arrested by the FBI for interfering with the flight crew. And by interfering with the flight crew, I mean, he actually bit a flight attendant. From Talanei.com: Supervisory Agent in Charge, Matthew MacDonald says Aumoeualogo is …

From the same beverage that brought you “Drunk Grandma* on a Plane,” the much anticipated sequel to Samuel L. Jackson’s breakout film, we have “drunk celebrity on a plane”. Lamar Odom was so drunk on a flight, he had to be removed before the flight even took off.  His downfall …

We’re going to need a bigger boat bar. Someone organized a bar crawl in an area of Brooklyn rife with Pokemon and ended up with an RSVP list of over 12,000 people. I’m not sure their starting location, Barcade in Williamsburgh, is ready for this. Pokemon Go  has been an interesting social and …

  Another sets of closures are happening on the metro line from DCA.  The bad news for most tourists is that the section going into DC from the airport is closing down for a week.   While the trains themselves are shut down, shuttle busses are running to replace those segments. From ArlNow.com: Arlington …

With the week that just happened, it’s nice to hear a heartwarming story. A crew member on Southwest Airlines went above and beyond when he noticed a little girl was extremely anxious in the air.  She also has type 1 diabetes, and was beginning to have blood sugar issues due …

Did they eat the fish? A Delta flight just diverted to Tulsa when ~15 passengers–that is, 10% of the flight–suddenly got sick at the same time. The flight took off from Atlanta and was headed to Denver. Here’s a play-by-play on the flight by Flight Aware. There’s no word yet …