News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hilton Embassy Suites hotel guests attacked with bear spray during argument at pool
- The Qantas first class lounge at LAX is currently closed due to flooding.
- A three hour tarmac delay without air conditioning is miserable, but soking onboard is still illegal – and has been for some time.
The first U.S. smoke-free airline was Muse Air (1981). Northwest was first major carrier to ban it entirely on domestic flights (1988) and Delta the first worldwide (1995). Smoking was legally barred on flights up to 2 hours in 1988, that broadened in 1990, and even foreign airlines to the U.S. were no longer allowed to permit smoking in 2000.
- British Airways faces food safety complaint after flight attendant stores trays of drinks on cabin floor
The photo initially confused commentators who couldn’t work out why the drinks had been placed on the floor. Insiders, however, explained that the trays would have been left on the floor ahead of passengers boarding, meaning that potentially hundreds of passengers walked past the trays with their shoes and feet in close proximity to the glasses.
“This is at the back of PE [Premium Economy] with no galley nearby,” one commentator wrote. “Poor interior design leads to shortcuts by the crew to try and keep customers happy.” … While this might have been a one-off situation, other people commenting on the post suggested that this practice was more widespread than originally believed. “We had them in this spot last week when we flew to New York and my husband had a hair floating in his glass when we were served them… Completely unsurprising,” one person wrote.
Drinks on the floor during boarding?
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BritishAirways - New LAX terminal 4 (American Airlines) concessions program.
- I found myself disagreeing with former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on a great many issues, however this is just an awful thing that someone did to him, weaponizing child protective services..?
the attacks on former DOT Secretary Buttigieg and attempt to separate him from his children are truly sick and disgusting.
I agree that no one is above the law and that any allegation about child abuse should be investigated but this is next level sick and disgusting.
Thank you for mentioning what happened to Pete Buttigieg and his family. What horrible person would do something like that? Imagine being those kids who unexpectedly had be kept away from their dad for no reason and taken to the police station to be interviewed by strangers? It’s not good when adults are cruel to each other, but it happens. But keep the kids out of it!
What happened to Buttigieg appears to be weaponized politics. I support the anonymous reporting of child abuse. But if it’s discovered to be politically motivated I hope those involved will be punished swiftly and appropriately.
Unfortunately, false accusations to CPS are not a new phenomenon. It’s most commonyl seen in contentious divorces and other personal vendettas. It also occasionally occurs in disagreements between parents and teachers or healthcare workers in which state requirements for mandatory reporting of potential child abuse are unreasonably stretched.
Some people are cruel. I’m sorry that happened to Pete.
“Just doing my job”.
“This is protocol, we don’t make exceptions for famous people.”
“If we did it for you, we’d have to do it for everybody.”
I absolutely guarantee you that this couldn’t happen if PB were living in the White House.
While anonymous reporting to CPS is appropriate in most cases, it should not trigger the standard, full response, in cases where the “suspect” is a famous person and member of a hated group. This “investigation” was entirely inappropriate when CPS knows perfectly well that their investigations are traumatic for every family.
The complainant should be required, when reporting second-hand gossip about a famous gay father, to submit to an interview in person, before PB was even contacted.
CPS has too much power in these unusual circumstances. Just as there are special protection arrangements for IPPs (Internationally Protected Persons) visiting foreign countries, special protections for people in the public eye, there should be active, thoughful behaviour when these supposedly expert CPS public servants are summoned into action against a person with a very public target on his back.
CPS’ “following protocol, no exceptions” approach is not a good look. Dumb, flatfooted.
I just hope this CPS ruse doesn’t get the attention it might. (Yeah, just hold on to your snarky comment that I’m adding to it—it’s too late here.) Scumbags are swatting folks they disagree with (like Amy Coney Barrett in a recent failed attempt). A false police report can lead to serious repercussions. A false CPS report might have the false reporter shielded from prosecution, so long as they don’t admit it was intentionally false.
@MaxPower — Thank you.
I wonder how much effort is being spent on tracking down the person making the false report. Such a person should spend time in prison.