{"id":179544,"date":"2018-01-06T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/06\/airline-passenger-does-to-plane-what-airlines-do-to-passengers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T04:58:00","slug":"airline-passenger-does-to-plane-what-airlines-do-to-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/06\/airline-passenger-does-to-plane-what-airlines-do-to-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Passenger Does to Plane What Airlines do to Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a passenger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/dr-gridlock\/wp\/2018\/01\/05\/a-united-passenger-befouled-the-bathrooms-so-badly-the-plane-had-to-land\/\">let loose in the bathroom<\/a> in a way that it, &#8220;Resembled the sets in <i>The Wild Bunch<\/i> if the film had been directed by John Waters instead of Sam Peckinpah,&#8221; United Airlines flight 895 was forced to make an emergency landing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">United Airlines passengers found themselves in a fetid situation when their Chicago-to-Hong Kong flight made an unscheduled landing in Alaska after a man had smeared feces all over some of the plane\u2019s bathrooms, airport officials said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">United Flight 895 was diverted to Anchorage on Thursday night, according to CBS affiliate KTVA, and police officials at Ted Stevens International Airport said the landing was due to a \u201cpassenger smearing feces everywhere.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">More specifically, officials said the man had dirtied \u201ca couple\u201d of lavatories on the plane and had also tried to cram his shirt down a toilet.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">United said in a statement only that the flight was diverted due to \u201ca disruptive passenger.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is some sort of metaphor lived in real life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a passenger let loose in the bathroom in a way that it, &#8220;Resembled the sets in The Wild Bunch if the film had been directed by John Waters instead of Sam Peckinpah,&#8221; United Airlines flight 895 was forced to make an emergency landing: United Airlines passengers found themselves in a fetid situation when their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,482,365,364,471,421],"class_list":["post-179544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-evil","tag-transportation","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}