Daily Planet for the week of Jan. 24, 2000
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Some people will do anything to get into the mile-high club. Last week, a 35-year-old Cypriot tried his best to find someone who would respond favorably to his advances during a flight from London to Larnaca on the island of Cyprus.
His objects of unwanted attention — Cyprus Airways’ flight attendants — were not amused. It all started, according to a Reuters report, with smoking. The boorish passenger refused to put out his cigarettes, which he smoked one after the other. He then began to make “suggestive comments,” followed by flagrant groping. At one point, an airline spokesman told Reuters, he “pushed one [flight attendant] into the toilet.”
His behavior eventually became so uncontrollable that the airline diverted the flight to Athens, where the molester was handed over to Greek police. In addition to harassing his fellow 97 passengers and the flight crew of seven, the man succeeded in delaying the flight over two and a half hours.
DeBary, Fla. — Central Florida’s Interstate 4, which runs along the
state’s east coast, became an unholy mess recently, all due to an
oblivious bovine.
According to an Associated Press report, it all started when cell
phone-toting commuters noticed a lone cow grazing in a 2 foot deep bog.
Was she stuck in the muck? Or — oh God — drowning? The concerned
citizens began to call the Florida Highway Patrol, demanding that
something be done.
The FHP rushed to the scene and concluded that the animal was — hungry.
She had four stomachs to fill, and water or no water, she was going to
fill them.
The workers retreated, but the calls kept coming. To appease the
drivers, the FHP then erected a giant electronic sign alongside the
road. Its statement was succinct: “The Cow is OK.”
The adventurous bovine, unmoved and, quite possibly, illiterate, soon
wandered on to less soggy pastures. But the sign remained, causing
motorists to slow down — and stop — and wonder, “What cow?”
According to the report, that second back-up stretched for miles and
lasted for hours.
Female soldiers fight the brass ceiling
Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap
Salman Rushdie fears nothing
The two Americas clash at CPAC
Making the perfect cover girl
A birth-control compromise could divide the right
Unions in a “death spiral”? Not on my job site
The answer that’s been staring them in the face
And the Oscar goes to … “Twilight”!
Adele: Too fat for fashion designer