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[Kurochan]

Do things seem to be going haywire where you are? It seems like it's a bad fall for mental health and suicides, both in the US and China. First a girl I know in the US who's bipolar but doesn't like to take her medication is going off the rails, threatening to sue people and saying she controls politics with her mind, and then there are all these news stories about naked people trying to board jets, and people trying to covert animals to Christianity. Then, a student of mine in Shanghai had to talk a woman down off a bridge, THEN a woman hanged herself in the apartment in front of mine (HORRIBLE!), another student had to go back to Xinjiang and take care of his wife, who'd suffered some sort of psychologically-caused facial paralysis, and now I've read in the news that so many people have been jumping onto the tracks at Shanghai metro stations that they're placing special guards down there to watch for potential suicides. What's the deal? Is there something bad in the air? What's going on where you are?

[Cardinal Synn]

Wow, heavy stuff! Not very nice.
Suicides aside, you say there are stories of people trying to board jets naked. How do they get as far as nearly boarding a jet with no clothes on? Don't they raise a few eyebrows in the terminal or at the check in desk? "Oh look, there's a naked person checking in, but that's OK, we'll only grab them if they try to get on a plane." (!)
I am intrigued by this.
I'm not trying to make light of the other stuff, I'm just genuinely interested in the naked jet boarding bit. Can you elaborate?

[dyak]

I'm not in Australia but what's going on there is far more amusing...

From www.smh.com.au...

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Do we need stricter security checks before boarding flights? How do you feel about proposals to frisk passengers? And how safe do you feel about flying domestic services now?

Instead of frisking, how about stripping and searching passengers, then providing them with a one piece terrorist friendly "bunny" suit to travel in - feet included (I could design it). Nothing else permitted (nor needed) on board the plane.

Breda Dunphy

We were in the U.S /Europe in December-January and it really stupid, the varying degrees of security. The stupidity began here in Sydney when the guards threw away a matching nail set, (given originally by Air Italia? so you can be sure that it looked good but was really useless) because our destination was the US. And the US, I was almost arrested for an ?unknown pressure device? in my handbag. It was my asthma inhaler. But in Europe, nobody could have cared less what we were carrying. I think that it was because they went through all this madness in the 1970s. In the US they allowed only plastic knives but steel forks. Anyone have any idea what a fork in the eye or the face will do to somebody? Charlie Manson certainly did. I like the idea of mob rule on planes. If you want something done, send real folks to do it, not people who are paid to act on someone else?s behalf. I also like the idea of personal responsibility: people are happy to take responsibility for themselves. And if they make a mistake and whale hell out of someone like, say, Liam Gallegher, oh well.

mob rule sounds really good

Frisking people is a waste of time. Wooden stakes can be concealed. Oooooh that felt good.

Andrew Dunn

It is really good to see that airline passngers will now beat the tar out of people on aeroplanes who behave in a disruptive and distracting fashion. This is long overdue.

Instead of frisking passengers for potential weapons we should be actively encouraging mob rule in the passenger cabins of our planes. The passengers are the ones at risk, and since passengers have taken to protecting themselves the risk of hijacking has become almost negligable.

Letting one lunatic be used for a further increase of governmental power would be nothing short of crazy. Mr Howard cannot be allowed another "Reichstag law."

Tom Cunningham

Come on people! What are we? Cowards? Since when were "wooden stakes" considered to be weapons? You can't intimidate an Aussie with a toothpick! The very fact that 3 passengers got up and jumped the fool proves that! We ARE keeping any worthwhile weapons off our flights. Don't go overboard, hypists! As long as the average flying Australian has a little bit of courage, we won't have a problem with wooden weapons.

Dave McKay

Any frisking done tends to be so non-intrusive that it's useless. The chances of being caught by being randomly frisked are pretty slim, and a desperate person is likely to take on the odds and bring aboard weapons regardless. As pointed out, the number of potential improvised weapons is limitless. The solution is that travellers should undergo pshychological screening and be labotomised if they display any unusual brain waves. The most effective security check I have ever been subjected to was in India when I proved that my film loaded camera was really a camera by taking a photo of the security guard before boarding a domestic flight. Woof too.

Carm H

Come on people frisking is really a legal way of frolicking someone. The sexier the person the longer the search, if you ask me it's the only way they can save Qantas jobs. Things are not what they seem, there's always good in something bad.

ex frisker

The way it's going we should all board planes naked. Its the only way to be sure...

extremist

[mehrlin26]

In the city where I'm currently at, a couple once killed their drugged-up son because they believed he was possessed by a devil. Or perhaps the Devil. I'm in Canada by the way. Madness is everywhere.

[Kurochan]

[Chris_Crossley]

[Cardinal Synn]

I think the guy's woody would've been surprised! Oh! The friction burns from the moving wheel!!

Interesting way to stowaway on a plane. I prefer just to use a budget airline myself. Cheaper in the long run.