Smoker caught on TK9, met by police at LAX
Aug 15, 2019, 11:35 am
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Smoker caught on TK9, met by police at LAX
I was on TK9 yesterday and at a certain point someone set off the smoke alarm by lighting up a cigarette in one of the rear Y bathrooms. FA's were on him right away, took his passport and he was met by police on arrival LAX. Not sure what happened to him after that.
CC handled the situation very well, I'm grateful this didn't escalate into an air rage / detour situation. Amazing that someone would take that chance this day and age!
CC handled the situation very well, I'm grateful this didn't escalate into an air rage / detour situation. Amazing that someone would take that chance this day and age!
Aug 15, 2019, 1:39 pm
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It's amazing nicotine isn't classified as a "Schedule" drug like heroin- when I used to work in Boston I'd have to walk by Mass General on the way to work, and in the wintertime (which was no joke) I'd see people smoking outside, in their buttless gowns, coatless, with the machines still hooked into their arms.
When I see someone less than ~30 smoking I just pity the poor fools.
When I see someone less than ~30 smoking I just pity the poor fools.
Aug 15, 2019, 11:46 pm
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Hopefully suitably beaten. If you cannot manage 13+ hours without a smoke, don't fly.
Aug 16, 2019, 12:22 am
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Aug 16, 2019, 3:17 am
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Aug 16, 2019, 6:40 am
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Aug 16, 2019, 11:14 am
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Well...they aren’t supposed to beat you up :-)
edit: (Omni territory, but still) US police are more famous for shooting people than beating them up, so there’s that.
edit: (Omni territory, but still) US police are more famous for shooting people than beating them up, so there’s that.
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Aug 17, 2019, 12:36 am
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No, the US is famous for having a media that talks a lot about the Police shooting people. There were about 1000 people shot and killed by the Police in 2018, There are something like 330 million people in the US, so your chance is something like one in 330,000. If one posits that 95% of all shootings are in relation to a serious crime, then , your chances of getting shot and killed by the Police in the US is something closer to 1 in 6,000,000. BTW your chances of getting shot as a white person are about TWICE that of a black person, just saying............
Aug 17, 2019, 2:05 am
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No, the US is famous for having a media that talks a lot about the Police shooting people. There were about 1000 people shot and killed by the Police in 2018, There are something like 330 million people in the US, so your chance is something like one in 330,000. If one posits that 95% of all shootings are in relation to a serious crime, then , your chances of getting shot and killed by the Police in the US is something closer to 1 in 6,000,000. BTW your chances of getting shot as a white person are about TWICE that of a black person, just saying............
Aug 17, 2019, 4:06 am
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No, the US is famous for having a media that talks a lot about the Police shooting people. There were about 1000 people shot and killed by the Police in 2018, There are something like 330 million people in the US, so your chance is something like one in 330,000. If one posits that 95% of all shootings are in relation to a serious crime, then , your chances of getting shot and killed by the Police in the US is something closer to 1 in 6,000,000.
BTW your chances of getting shot as a white person are about TWICE that of a black person, just saying............
BTW your chances of getting shot as a white person are about TWICE that of a black person, just saying............
It's the second part I find troubling. It's unclear if you are claiming the proportion of the caucasian population killed by the police is higher than proportion of the african-american population killed by the police; or the absolute number of white deaths is higher than that of black deaths.
The first interpretation is indeed surprising; the second less so, given that african-americans represent only around 1 in 8 of the population.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/...e-data/595528/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...hootings-2019/
Last edited by IAN-UK; Aug 17, 2019 at 4:14 am Reason: adding a link, or two
Aug 17, 2019, 7:21 am
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Since we are moving wildly off topic I am closing this thread now.
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