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lucar
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Nov 11, 2004 - 07:26 AM |
 
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Naked bid to fly Down Under
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet, officials said on Wednesday.
Pilots of the Qantas Airways flight stopped the plane. The man was coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing, said airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
"This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do. If he had continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at over 200 miles (320 kph) per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up by an engine," she said.
"If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism. And if not he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour flight at 30,000 feet (9,150 metres) while wearing no clothes."
The man, Neil Melly, 31, tried to buy a one-way ticket on the Qantas flight on Monday evening, but was turned down because he could not supply a valid credit card, Castles said.
Later, he managed to climb over an airport fence, topped by three strands of barbed wire, without injury and was spotted by a ramp worker "running, naked, full-speed" toward the plane.
Castles said a check by authorities found that Melly had been reported missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was suffering from bi-polar disorder, a manic-depressive illness.
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Benoist_Shanghai
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Nov 11, 2004 - 07:55 AM |
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But why naked??? 
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Caesara
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Nov 11, 2004 - 09:10 AM |
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| But why naked??? |
You run faster when naked. I promise. Strip down and try it on Julu Lu on a Friday night, and I swear you'll run faster than you've ever done before...
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MaomingMaster
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Nov 11, 2004 - 10:58 AM |
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Neil Melly - Ned Kelly...
Kind of weird, right? |
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Henry_Chinaski
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Nov 11, 2004 - 11:37 AM |
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| Caesara wrote: |
| Benoist_Shanghai wrote: |
| But why naked??? |
You run faster when naked. I promise. Strip down and try it on Julu Lu on a Friday night, and I swear you'll run faster than you've ever done before...
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Have you ever done this Caesara? |
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Caesara
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Nov 11, 2004 - 12:22 PM |
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Not me! It must've been the Lady.
I was the one with the camera.
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lucar
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Joined: July 05, 2004
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Nov 12, 2004 - 04:10 AM |
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| Benoist_Shanghai wrote: |
But why naked???
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I asked the same thing and below is what a friend of mine wrote in response:
"You're right to notice the naked thing--it's definitely a thread that runs through a certain kind of wackiness--lots of male suicides strip before doing themselves in--to wit, the most recent (and really tragic) example--a psychotic chef in London managed to kill not only himself but at least five others (as well as injuring SCORES) when, just a few days ago, he parked his car in front of a high speed train at an intersection and derailed the train. He was sitting in the driver's seat of his car--in the NUDE.
Explanations, anyone?" |
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