Using the lav twice is a diversion
 

I checked first to see if this had been posted under "Practical Travel Safety Issues." :p

Apparently to at least one "see-something-say-something" WN flyer, the spectacle of another pax using the lav twice in one flight was worth reporting. :rolleyes:

Southwest Flight Diverted Over Suspicious Passenger

My guess is that on every flight there's a least one person who needs to visit the jakes more than once. How long would it take to pull back on SS.SS if all of these continence challenged individuals were reported on every flight?

All i'm saying is if you see something? Say something! :D

^ I've reached that certain age where a major traveling maxim is "Never overlook an opportunity to use the facilities." That's one reason this really caught my attention.

I'll have to put it out of my mind lest the very thought of it induces such a nervous bladder that I'll be heading for the lav even more often. :D

Good grief. On one recent flight, when I had what would politely be described as "stomach problems," I visited the lav twice before we even took off (and a few times more after). I'm relieved that nobody noticed my suspicious behavior. :rolleyes:

I'm guessing you're not brown.

:rolleyes:

What next? Will I have to ask an FA for 'permission' to use the restroom?

And people thought it was crazy when the Ryanair CEO talked about charging to use the loo. What next? A pre-loo 'screening'? No amenity kits or handbags in the loos?

Way to 'honor' 9-11 and the indomitable American spirit.

Very frustrating. I have a prostate condition which results in frequent urination. I definitely have to use the lav on 2+ hour flights at least once, even more on transcons. So now not being the picture of health is "suspicious."

To the victims of 9/11, I'm sorry that we created the United Police State of America in response to your tragedy.

Welcome to the Paranoid State of Amerika.

Pathetic.

"A 'suspicious item' was found"

Did the pax forget to flush?

I figure we'll find out who he is when the notice of claim is delivered to SouthWest and Homeland Security.

Actually, I am brown, but in the U.S., I am considered Black. (Oh, the irony....)

But I won't be surprised if the "suspicious" passenger is tan-brown instead of Black-brown. I guess we'll find out soon.

I maybe not seeing all the news stories, but it appears to me that SW has more news stories about kicking people off flights or diverting flights, for a multitude of paranoid unjustified reasons. I thought that they were supposed to be one of the better customer friendly airlines we have in the USA. I am really starting to wonder.

I've wondered if there is a 'tipping point' to 'SS.SS' - you know, a point where it all breaks down because the ones most likely to consistently (and frequently) SS.SS are going to be kooks.

Years ago, phoned-in bomb threats were briefly 'popular' at the local high schools. The initial reaction was understandable: school officials immediately evacuated the students and the police were called in. I often wondered if pranksters stopped making the calls or if the school officials stopped taking them seriously, because it was a very short-lived phenomenon. No one was ever identified or charged with the calls. Certainly nothing changed at my school from a student's point of view - no walls went up, checkpoints, etc.

I'd like to think the ill-advised SS.SS will overwhelm the system and wither away like the reaction to phoned-in bomb threats did at our local schools.

Then I think about East Germany and the sadness of folks being encouraged to SS.SS against each other. Maybe this is just going to get worse.

Only dictatorship such as Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR, Mao's China practice policy to make its people monitor each other, report to authorities, and more often than not the person being reported will be some kind of punishment regardless of facts. It really sounds like US is heading down that road with this ridiculous "see something, say something." Average person is simply not trained to distinguish real threat from certain behaviors.

TSA rather turn Americans against each other rather than target the real suspects of terrorists with pre-established patterns and factors, really pathetic. And yes, I'm one of those person that likes to drink a lot and thus the biological result is I needed to go urinate a lot, I would go to the can multiple times even on a short 2 hour flight....

Allergies, asthma, good hydration, general comfort.

I drink a lot. I pee a lot.

Apparently even this is now a problem.

Until now, I'd been open to the idea of flying for my job if they really needed me to, but I've been lucky. It's coming to the point now, I won't even consider that.

And now I have to take time out of my days to call and complain to Southwest and a few others, right after calling the Mall of America. The list is getting mighty long.

Didn't you get the memo - SS.SS is now PI.SS :D

gives a whole new meaning to the word bio-terror :D

:td: to the massive over reaction, by the way

In its heyday, the Stasi had one informant for every 60 citizens -- and that was only domestically.

A big "F" to the media that reports everything as "suspicious" activity. This has gotten to a ridiculous extreme now that we are reporting on each other for every little thing: too many bathroom breaks, spending too long in the bathroom, praying, looking "different", etc etc.

How's one supposed to join the mile high club anymore with the whole plane watching... :rolleyes:

When I fly again (it may not be until next summer, when TSA security will likely have us all stripping down and putting on white terry cloth bathrobes for our flight), I am now planning to do the following:

1. Have a video of the airplanes hitting the towers on 9/11 playing on my iPad
2. Say a short prayer prior to the flight taxiing to the runway
3. Say a short prayer at take-off
4. Use the lavatory as soon as possible after take-off
5. Take my iPad to the lavatory with me
6. Stay in the lavatory for at least 10 minutes
7. Return to seat
8. Maybe start a flight simulator game on my iPad, or open a flight manual or something
9. Another trip to the lavatory
10. Another trip to the lavatory
11. (Well, I think you get the idea)

I wonder how far I'll get down the list before some ultra-paranoid overzealous flight attendant decides to screw with me and risk their career (or at least being sued).

Last September 11, I was flying out of PBI, and the newsstand had the TV on, and I forget if it was simply the news coverage, or some video about 9/11, but there were several repetitions of the clips of the planes hitting the towers.

Should I have reported the cashiers at the newsstand to the authorities? :mad:

You saw something, but didn't say something? Oh dear... Minus 15 Cadre Points for you! :rolleyes:

I was on a flight in F and the guy in the third row of coach came up to use the front rest room at least 3 times during a sub-2 hour flight. I was just glad the lav didn't smell.

For your security we now installing German Style toilets on board. You will be required to collect and take with you when you leave the plane.

This is for your protection and safety, thank you for your compliance.

:p

Do Do
 

Or Do a Gerard Depardieu do:cool:

Speaking of lavs....

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/276...t-re-screening

Well thank god somebody saw it and said something. Only Al Qaeda disregards the "Don't throw paper towels in the toilet" sign.

It might have been a bladder issue.

I pity anyone on a flight who needs frequent bathroom use. Between seatbelt signs on, carts in the aisle, injunctions not to form a line (great, when you're in the first row of 'Y' and the toilets are in the back of the plane), and the infinite number of things that can come up (traveller's gut, UTIs, medical conditions), it can be a bit of a hassle already.

Wonder if the airport vendors are carrying adult diapers yet?

You'll have to raise your hand and wait to be recognized - of course, we should all by now be experienced in hand-raising because of the scanners. ;)

Breaking news!
 

Turns out the "suspicious item" was a copy of the US Constitution and it was deemed "suspicious" because no one at the TSA had ever seen it before.

Mike