News and notes from around the interweb:
- What did you do on your layover? One man stopping at DFW committed murder
Police said Medeiros had stopped at DFW Airport on the night of May 29, hours before Douglas was killed. Medeiros’ family members told WFAA that the teen has no ties to North Texas and was only here for his layover. He was heading back to Washington state after a trip he took for work, his family said.
Instead, he went on a shooting spree, according to a police report from the DFW Airport Department of Public Safety.
- Former Jersey Shore Star Jenni Farley Says United Kicked Her and Disabled Son Off Plane After Airline Accidentally Canceled Her Reservation
Thank you @united for kicking Greyson and I off our second flight. Apparently they double booked my seats on the new flight because someone cancelled my reservation switching flights and we were escorted off pic.twitter.com/VakYzo09bB
— JWOWW (@JENNIWOWW) August 14, 2024
- Hyatt close to sale of Hyatt Regency Orlando for $1.02 billion they paid $717 million in 2013 renovated it in 2016 at a cost of $117 million.
- TIL: Paris syndrome
- American Airlines basic economy tickets can now be cancelled for travel credit over the phone, not just online.
- “Does the Alchian and Allen theorem apply as much to shipping the tourists as it does to shipping the goods?”
Bring in the third world … Become the third world .
@Alert, are you referring to the American cultural activity of going on random shooting sprees?
This trend goes far beyond having a beef with an individual, and where in the third world is this happening?
United is still United in the Jenni Farley incident. Fortunately she handled it good so she didn’t get dragged off of the airplane. She should get the limit for each of the seats she was in (does United still offer up to $10,000 for denied boardings?)
@Alert, read the link, there is more to the story. It seems the young killer was observed at his departure airport in Chattanooga, where he was running around shirtless, sweating, and incoherent. He should never have been allowed to board the flight.
He then continued on to DFW, where (my guess) is that he left the airport and somehow picked up? bought? a gun – unless he had snuck it through TSA screening in Chatt – and then roamed around DFW in a random search for someone to kill.
This obvious mental health issue speaks far more about the US gun culture, where it is really easy to purchase a gun (or sneak a gun through TSA) than it does about third world immigration. As a footnote, I’m an advocate for rigorous immigration screening and stronger border policy.
Paris syndrome is first noticed after taking a ANA or Japan Airlines flight to Paris and then getting on the RER with passengers from these flights.
These passengers mostly younger women dressed impeccable are shocked and awed to the max.
Jenni Farley most likely got on the plane and then canceled her ticket.
Was a travel hack she picked up from tiktok.
Uhhhh if you read the article, you can see it didn’t happen at DFW airport. Nice clickbait though. I guess I fell for it.
Want to address gun crimes in America? It’s easy. Last FBI statistics I saw showed over 70% of gun crimes were by people who couldn’t legally own a gun. First offense for someone in possession of an illegal firearm, 20 years in prison. Use that that weapon in a crime, 30 years in prison. Injure someone with that weapon, 40 years in prison. No early release. If a juvenile is found in possession of a firearm, locked up in juvenile detention until their 21st birthday. We had a 20 year old felon shot by police that had 2 prior convictions for a felon in possession of a firearm (no telling what his juvenile record looked like). Of course we had all the squalling and protests.
Jenni was so distraught, she took her disabled son off to the local Margaritaville during the wait.
So sad.
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@Alert – 3rd world countries actually have gun control to prevent COMPLETE INSANE people to not have access to weapons
Having been an expat and lived in other countries, I will agree with Alert. Many countries censor any talk or publication of violence in their countries. While the violence is often perpetrated with firearms, many times it’s knives, explosives and violent bodily attacks. Please don’t be so naive to think that gun control in foreign countries prevent violence and mental illness is exclusively American.