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The TSA took my baby story: The relationship between psychology, customer service and traveling with a young one {Gadling}
Oct 18th 2009 4:23AM No. She's just a plain out liar, who thought she could generate some traffic for her site by fabricating an encounter with the TSA, who she didn't imagine would so effectively and efficiently fight back.
She faces web ridicule and, frankly, deserves it.
Ryanair fumbles check-in, hundreds delayed {Gadling}
Aug 4th 2009 5:12PM "...we'll just need to parachute out at our destination."
Once you've paid the parachute rental fee.
Airbus wins bet, makes president less of a loser {Gadling}
Jan 3rd 2009 3:10AM Dreamliner....
Galley Gossip: A question about traveling with kids and scoring an extra seat {Gadling}
Nov 21st 2008 12:43PM "Are there any sneaky ways to insure that we could get an 'empty' seat for her????' There sure are, pay for it. If your child needs a seat it needs a ticket.
Aussie Backpackers Look to London Sperm Banks to Fund Their Travels {Gadling}
Nov 20th 2008 5:05PM Good luck to them. It was a stupid change in the law and the Government got what it deserved.
What happens when you overload a donkey cart {Gadling}
Nov 20th 2008 4:15AM Seems to me like the donkey was quite used to it, just hanging, no thrashing. Vietnam?
Roanoke's new art museum opens today and the collection is fabulous {Gadling}
Nov 8th 2008 1:39PM Just over the railroad tracks is the O Winston Link Museum (http://www.linkmuseum.org) which is also well worth a visit.
A New Supersonic Passenger Jet on the Horizon {Gadling}
Oct 27th 2008 2:06PM Anglo-French designed, and how many times do you need telling at Gadling to stop reading the damn Daily Mail.
London notes: The city is cracking down on knife-wielding thugs {Gadling}
Aug 25th 2008 5:35PM While it might seem alarming:
London has a population of 7.8million and in the last 12 months had 175 homicides, or 2.25 per 100000 population. Chicago, population 2.8m, had 507 or 18 per 100000. New York, often sited as a model in how to reduce crime and a similar sized city, has 11 per 100000. Casting the net wider, Sydney, Australia, has 1.8 per 100000, the whole of New Zealand has 2.1 per 100000.
So London's rate of homicide is actually comparable to, or vastly lower than, other major common law English language countries, which would paradoxically suggest that the rate of knife crime is not massively high either - either that or we have dreadfully poor knife attackers. If you want to be in a city and worried about getting murdered, try another capital - Washington DC - 34 homicides per 100000 population.
I happened to be in DC a few months ago and there were seven, I think, homicides in 6 hours one night.
A travel story when the traveler doesn't have a clue {Gadling}
Jun 28th 2008 2:54AM I was recently on a flight from Manchester in England to Philadelphia. As we rolled down the runway for take-off something went wrong and the pilots had to do an emergency stop. As a result some of the tyres deflated and the plane was impounded as a crash site.
We were all shuffled off to a hotel for the night and flew out the next day (after a further 4 hour delay - 28hrs in total). Anyway, and to chime with the theme of our post, our misery was as nothing compared to the lady on board who had found herself in Manchester by mistake. She had tried to book a ticket from Phillie to Manchester NH, but had selected Manchester UK instead. A couple of hours in to her outbound flight she realised her error. She had to spend one night in Manchester as there is only one flight a day, an unfortunately had to spend another when the plane broke. Her two hour trip from Phillie to New Hampshire turned in to something like 55hrs.
That's a travelling mistake, indeed.
