BS: Air Canada unruly passenger

Subject: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:30 PM

Here is the short article...

Air Canada plane forced to divert to Kelowna after man steals beer

KELOWNA, B.C. - Police took a man off an Air Canada Jazz flight in Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday after a disturbance on the flight from Vancouver to Fort McMurray, Alberta forced the pilot to make an unscheduled stop.

Police say the man stole some beer from the beverage cart on the plane and tried to hide the evidence by flushing the empty can down the toilet. Airport Communications Officer Jenelle Turpin says the pilot made the decision to land in Kelowna and call in the Mounties.

When the plane landed the RCMP took one man away in handcuffs, while questioning two others before releasing them. The plane then continued on its flight.

(After, of course, they went to the beer store.)

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:47 PM

Trying to flush the evidence probably wasn't the best way to get rid of it. Guy would have done better just to throw it out the window.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: bobad
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:52 PM

A bit of an over-reaction, in my opinion, unless there is more to the story.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: MarkS
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:00 PM

Passenger must not have been Canadian. Canadians are just not unruly.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:20 PM

Must have been a very good local beer instead of the mass market dreck.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: meself
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:26 PM

"Canadians are just not unruly."

Um ... have you ever watched a hockey game?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:27 PM

It's a very Canadian story, though, with it's two main elements being beer and a privy. And it's soooo depressing (poor guy couldn't get enough beer and had to steal it).

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:27 PM

Two words for you, folks: new fie.

I mean, goin to Fort McMoney?

Guy oughta know enough to hide the evidence in his buddy's pocket, ain't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 04:02 PM

BobtP... or in the seat pocket... or in the sick bag.. or under the seat... or...

But, I thought the fact that they had to land for more beer was the way to go. Now, THAT is Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 05:18 PM

That's a good point, though. A Newfie would definitely have handled it better.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 07:04 PM

Certainly CC! A Newf woulda done far better than that there mainlander. What's their prob? Shockin stunned as me arse them lads eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 07:07 PM

Was they born on a raft!?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 07:10 PM

In a canoe... in a wind... inna winter... be the Lard dyin sufferin Moly Joeseph! Whassup wit em eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 08:43 PM

The nearest brewery to the Kelowna Airport is 20 km north in my home town, Vernon.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 09:06 PM

JtS says it sounds to him like it was probably some pothead from BC smuggling dope up his ass in a tea bag.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 09:11 PM

(He also said any Newfie worth his salt already knows how to flush a beer can down a toilet.)

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 09:52 PM

Yeah, I was thinking the nearest grow-op to the Vancouver Airport has got to be a lot closer than 20km. But since there were actually THREE guys involved, I also wondered, what if they're from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: open mike
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:04 PM

at least he wasn't trying to moon the plane,
as in a recent message about a train.

it reminds me of a t.v. show i saw a couple of days ago
a crime show...where the murderer hid the victim's body
in the toilet of the airplane...yuck!

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:25 PM

"When the plane landed, RCMP briefly detained that man, who was later released on a promise to appear.

His two travelling companions were questioned and released.

"The comfort and safety of our passengers and crew is our top priority at Jazz and we have a zero-tolerance policy with respect to unruly passengers," Air Jazz said in a statement.

Holmes said the 23-year-old man, from Barriere, B.C., will likely face disturbance charges."

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Beer
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:30 PM

I bet that's who they were Bob. Those Bluenosers are a lot.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 10:33 PM

Speaking of toilets . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Sawzaw
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 12:13 AM

If it was Kokanee Glacier Beer, I can understand why.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 12:26 AM

Every time that I stole beer, I hid the evidence down the lavvy, too.

Later, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Ernest
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 02:07 AM

Unruly passenger on an Air Canada Jazz flight?

Now we can proudly say: "Thats nor folk"!

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 02:09 PM

"... 23-year-old man, from Barriere, B.C."? They believed Shane?

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 18 Oct 09 - 05:24 PM

"I'm from Blind Riv . . . , oops, I mean Barry . . . err . . . B.C.?"

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: Irene M
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 10:45 AM

May 1991. The first time I took my mother (then 66) abroad, we flew to Toronto with Air Canada. It was a 747 combi, so only half the cabin space of a normal 747. But, we had a touring rugby team in there. By the time we took to bouncing over Labrador, Mother and I were blocking an aisle each, while the crew were in the aft galley, frantically poured the remaining booze down the sink. "I'm sorry sir, we have run out."
When we got into Pearson, the team was starting to look a little hungover. They still had to fly to Calgary, I think, and there was a HUGE queue in the immigration hall. Bet they didn't feel like drinking on the next leg of the journey!

Subject: RE: BS: Air Canada unruly passenger
From: gnu
Date: 19 Oct 09 - 11:07 AM

Bob... hehehehehee.