In the news today is the harrowing tale of a Northwest Airlines jet which blew 5 tires while landing at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Everyone aboard the plane was safe, which blocked a runway for three hours.
This is an open talk thread where you can discuss anything you like. When a jet blows 5 tires, an obvious segway would be to share your worst travel experience. So what is your horror story? Or is it yet to come under the current administration and economic mess?
About the jet, it was a Boeing 747-200 incoming from El Paso, Texas and ironically scheduled for maintenance in Minnesota. The Northwest Airlines pilot radioed that his breaks were overheating before landing, and then proceeded to land at 2pm local time. Pop pop pop pop pop. Luckily nobody was injured. Read about it here or here and obsessively study the flight loghere.
There is no video of the “jet blows 5 tires” story, so here instead is a video compilation of “funny” crashes for your amusement. This is a lot better than the horrible plane crash video that we almost posted in a state of late night delirium.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 am
1st
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 am
I have 2 stories- 1- I was going about 50mph on a snowy night on a 2 lane 2 way traffic road. My car started to skid. I ended up doing a complete 360. I was sooo lucky, no damage to car and none to me.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 am
Tim V,
Interesting comment by you at Plant Free.
We lost altitude on a puddle jumper from Pelston, MI to Detriot. Watch what happens when you drop a few thousand feet in a few seconds. Ugly!
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 am
hi md, 2nd story-was driving in atlanta on 285 or whatever they call the one that circles atl, i noticed a couple of cars ahead of me a truck with rolls of carpet, it didn’t look to secure,suddenly a roll fell off, then another…there were 4 lanes or so i looked to see if i could swing into the left lane go no room at all, the car ahead came to a complete stop, i slammed on my brakes and came to a complete stop and inches from the car ahead then suddenly a small truck behind me crashed into me going almost full speed, totalying my car. my head flew into my glass on the windsheild but other than a bump on the head, no real damage to me.again i was lucky to be alive…
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:54 am
futures are strong- could be a plus 100-150 on the dow today but stocks very extended near term and due for a pullback very soon…
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:55 am
Here is a story that has nothing to do with transportation per se but still scared the crap out of me. About 10 years ago, 7 buddies and myself go on a golf outing to Virginia. It was in the Virginia Beach area but not quite that far south. Anyway, after finishing 2 rounds, we are driving back to the motel and decide to stop in a little bar that looked friendly.
We all sit at the bar since the tables were full of people watching college football, I think. Anyway, this really ugly girl hits on one of my buds, obviously looking for a free drink. He blows her off, in a not too nice way, I might add.
It is immediately forgotten. About a half hour later, I feel a piece of metal on my temple and hear, “You’ll gonna fu** with my baby, I blow yer yankee brains out through yer nose” or something to that effect. The product of a mating between a brother and sister had the wrong guy! My buddies move away from this situation faster than OJ after he committed double homocide and I am left by myself. Now I hear the daugther scream from somewhere (my eyes were locked straight ahead and my life was flashing before my eyes), “Not him momma, the other guy”. Fortunately, the bar tender was familiar with these guys and had moved around the bar. The daughter had distracted the mother and he took the opportunity to club her on the back. Only later did I think that the gun could have gone off.
So he picks up the gun, unloads the ammo, kicks (yes, kicks!) her in the butt and tells her to come back “later” for the gun!!!! I ask for a phone to call the cops. He just laughs and says something like, “Sure, you can call them but they won’t do anything. She has relatives who are cops. This stuff happens a lot with them. Relax the next drink is on me”.
Guess what? We stayed all day and the people at the tables were buying us free drinks and 2 cops, just off-duty, came in laughing because they heard what happened. We were crap faced at the end and 1 of the cops (who I can’t imagine was sober but better than us) drove our van to the motel while the other cop followed.
What a strange night.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 am
MORE CHANGE:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574326531645819464.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 am
I sat over the tires flying from Hawaii(the big isle) to Oahu. One of em blew out during landing, caught fire, flames and smoke coming from under the wing next to my window, sh*t my pants.
Flight from L.A. to Honolulu with O.J. and kids on board took off late. ( 1987-88 )
Flight departed 1 hour late so the airline decided to comp cocktails all the way to Honolulu. I sat next to Arnel Simpson and got wasted with her for 5 hours.
This f*cking idiot lost the napkin with her hotel name on it and of course back in the day I was lucky if I could remember my own name half the time.
I guess its a good thing because eventually one day I would of done something wrong to daddys little girl.
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 am
EVEN MORE CHANGE:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/specter-sebelius-heckled-at-town-hall.html
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:54 am
Frank,
Do we have a Friday outlier for Rasmussen?
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 am
EPH,
That is the clip of the year!!! Thanks for posting that. Now, can everyone see why Specter is toast?
Read the bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You mean like the 325 page amendment on cap and trade the friggin night before it is passed!
Also, Specter admitted to supporting the stimulus bill before READING it. Yes, he admitted that on WHPL in Philly.
I am so fired up over this.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Eph, cool links.
Specter is like a dead-man walking. Anyone have predictions for GOP Senate pickups in 2010? And what states?
MDefl, thanks for the story. It’s a blend of Deliverance and Baywatch.
TimV, your stock knowledge is wayyy beyond anything I know. My own strategy is to sell whenever Obama speaks.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
McCain,
Trust me – there was no Baywatch beauties involved. If I recall correctly, I think both women were missing teeth.
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 am
Mission accomplished by the birthers.
http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/3105924376
“Bob McDonnell supporters: 36% think Obama was not born in US, 33% think he was, 31% are not sure.”
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 am
if you want to see more videos like the spector town hall, click on the top tab at this site called embarassing clips…this is a NATIONAL grass roots movement
http://www.operationembarrassyourcongressman.com/
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am
My worst travel story would have to be the shakedown I got from police in Vietnam due to visa issues.
This was fall 2004. Myself and a couple friends checked into a hotel, and gave our passports to the proprietor as usual. Then the police called us down. Turns out the customs guy had given us the wrong stamp on our visas when we got into the country.
The cops tried to shake us down for bribe money, but the guy from the hotel told us to say we were poor. Luckily it worked, but it’s no fun being interrogated by a corrupt communist police force.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Rhayader,
i had two similar experiences. the first i was travelling by trans-siberian railroad into china. i was with a 55 year old texan woman and a french guy. in the middle of the night the chinese fling open the doors and demand our passports … and i did not have a visa, so they said. “come with us!”. soooo … i just politely went with them, while the texan lady kept saying, “these chinese are so stupid … blah blah blah” and the french guy is yelling, “give them a bribe! they want a bribe!”. well, the other too were so annoying they eventually just said, “you are free to go”
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 am
my second story was similar to bancock palace. i was travelling through china again. i was transporting my cat. i had a about 5 pounds of a white substance in my baggage. suddenly cops, with guns, come out of the woodwork at me! they search me, go through everything. want me to explain what i am doing with this white powder.
to this day i am the kitty litter smuggling queen of south east asia.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
Breaks BEFORE landing????? You are an idiot!
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
@lisa: Hah, glad it worked out for you. When you get into places where police corruption is the cultural rule, so much of what they do is just for intimidation and posturing. The last thing they really want is some international incident; they just want whatever bribe money they can easily come by.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
four women tie up man cheating on them all. they apply super-glue to his body! that sounds painful
“Calumet County prosecutors say 48-year-old Therese A. Ziemann of Menasha lured the man to a Stockbridge motel last Thursday. Prosecutors say she was soon joined by 43-year-old Michelle Belliveau of Neenah; 43-year-old Wendy L. Sewell of Kaukauna; and the man’s wife.
Authorities say Ziemann punched the man in the face and applied Krazy Glue to other body parts. All four women allegedly fled with his cell phone, wallet and vehicle.”
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Haha kitty litter? Nice. We had some slightly less legal substances — natural and herbal, but illegal nonetheless — when we got hauled downtown. Luckily they didn’t search through our hotel room or things could have been a lot worse.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 am
try to explain to chinese, who eat cats, that
a.) you have a pet cat
b.) what kitty litter is for
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
big quakes in california
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
oj might be let out. it seems he was arrested by a white cop. obama is going to have them over for beer.
“LAS VEGAS (AP) – A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices is considering whether to let O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy out of prison while the full court reviews their convictions for a gunpoint hotel room heist.”