News and notes from around the interweb:
- Bizarre call to Troy hotel unearths possible kidnapping, drug, mail and identity theft cases these people seemingly didn’t learn the lesson from Truman Capote that “the problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.”
- No one knows what will happen to existing Alitalia tickets, and to those being sold now for future travel. Europe is demanding, as a condition of Italy financing the rebooted airline, that it can’t just take over operations of the old carrier – and that appears to include even honoring its tickets.
Copyright: jvdwolf / 123RF Stock Photo - United Airlines is refreshing its boarding music
- The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server Shoulda just played Airplane Mode instead.
- This woman thinks complaints about crying babies on planes is a sign of a dying culture – and that’s what you should tell people who complain about them (HT: Tommy L)
Nothing screams low IQ deadbeat like face and neck tats.
The lady with the screaming brats has a point. Absent some serious procreation or heavy immigration, the bountiful government handouts that go to old people will have to be curtailed. So enjoy the churlish, surly infants on your flight, since they’re saving you from a retirement where you live in rural Arkansas, eat cat food, and have to pay for your healthcare.
Anyone who thinks the police routinely resolve an issue with unruly suspects by shooting them in the back should read this article. It’s only the s**t cops who have to resort to that sort of violence to solve an issue, and luckily they are (relatively) few and far between.
@ Flying.While.High.Again don’t be ridiculous. Half the personal trainers and fitness models on Instagram have neck tats.