hoax posts

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:00PM: It was a bad week for Australians, it seems. A naval officer was physically restrained on a flight to London. Not too long after, Matt Carney, a flight attendant from Melbourne, was sentenced to 18 months in jail in England. It was his own fault: he left not one but two(!) notes on a plane to London, "warning" of a bomb. Of course, he was working the flight.
The 23-year-old soon-to-be-former ...

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Mar 23rd, 2009 at 12:00PM: If you happened to be at London Gatwick international airport at 6:45 AM on Sunday, you're probably still mad. United Arab Emirates flight EK 011 from Dubai was ten minutes from landing at London Gatwick when they found a note "implying there may be a suspicious device on board." Craptastic. All 164 passengers and the crew were escorted from the plane (which is fine for them, they were probably ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Jun 6th, 2008 at 4:00PM: Both The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News ran ads today advertising the purported new airline Derrie-Air, the new airline concept that charges for both the weight of the passenger and his or her luggage.. At flyderrie-air.com you can check out some of the airline's deals per per pound, from $1.40/pp from Philadelphia to Chicago to $2.25/lb from Philly to Los Angeles. Weigh a lot ...

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Jul 24th, 2007 at 4:46PM: Just the other day, my girlfriend and I were watching Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild and commenting on how crazy he was -- eating spiders, sleeping with snakes, and climbing up and down waterfalls while battling a massive case of diarrhea. Maybe he's not so crazy? The New York Post is running an article that questions the reality of Man vs. Wild, saying, "On the program, ...