Hours In The Air With Every Toilet Broken: Passengers Instructed To Relieve Themselves In Bottles [Roundup]

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  1. Re:shocks to pickpockets. American ingenuity— this is what makes the US the best country on Earth.

  2. I don’t know if this event even deterred the pickpocket in question later, but my dad told me of walking Paris once (he was in his late 60’s early 70’s at the time). He always wore a sports jacket and kept his wallet in his inside jacket pocket. As he was walking, he felt something in his back pants pocket, reached back and grabbed what turned out to be a young (18-20 y.o.) man’s wrist and as he turned around, wound up lifting the young man off of his feet (my dad was 6’3″ and very strong even before he got his “old man strength”). The man’s eyes were bugging out and dad was pretty sure he saw some wetness forming on his pants, so he dropped him and let him run off. While it probably didn’t stop him or the others from continuing to pickpocket, I’m sure no one who saw it tried to pickpocket my dad again.

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