Update on passenger on London-DC flight
posted at 4:33 pm on August 17, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Pretty clearly not a terrorist, although given the circumstances and the unfortunate way in which her craziness manifested itself, you can understand how she might have made people onboard a little jumpy:
In the affidavit, Choldin says flight attendants noticed Mayo about 90 minutes into the flight because she was pushing against the aircraft bulkhead. When the attendant told her to return to her seat, Mayo said she wanted to speak to an air marshal and made statements about knowing that people wanted to see what was in her bag…
Later during the flight, according to the affidavit, Mayo asked a flight attendant: “Is this a training flight for United Flight 93?” The flight attendant didn’t know if she made a mistake because the flight was actually Flight 923, or if she was referring to Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11…
She also wrote in a note and said to flight attendants that she had been in a country illegally, and later said she had photographs of Pakistan…
Flight attendants summoned the captain, who spoke to Mayo. During the conversation, she made reference to there being “six steps to building some unspecified thing.”
“She made reference to being with people associated with two words. She stated that she could not say what the two words were because the last time that she had said the two words she had been kicked off of a flight in the United Arab Emirates,” according to the affidavit.
The captain and purser both believed that she was referring to al-Qaeda, Choldin wrote.
She ended up pulling down her pants and squatting on the floor of the cabin to pee, which probably should have clued them in, at the very least, to the fact that they weren’t dealing with a Zarqawi-level operative. Not that you’d want to take any chances.
Here’s something she wrote for the Pakistani paper Dawn. No comment.
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From VT. That explains a lot right there.
Rich on August 17, 2006 at 4:47 PM
Evidently, Mayo’s last LSD trip just kicked in the other day.
Aunt B on August 17, 2006 at 5:08 PM
Phish…Ben & Jerry…Joseph Smith…I mean come on, is anyone surprised?
BirdEye on August 17, 2006 at 5:08 PM
Ah, a journalist. That explains a lot more.
A couple items short of a Happy Meal, this one.
JammieWearingFool on August 17, 2006 at 5:08 PM
Good thing she didn’t grow a tail…they might’ve mistaken it for plastic explosive…Sheesh.
Kid from Brooklyn on August 17, 2006 at 5:11 PM
It drips with Fisky goodness.
yo on August 17, 2006 at 5:14 PM
Is this a joke?
Savage on August 17, 2006 at 5:35 PM
OKayyyyyyyyy..Cat Stevens? Mr Islam himself?
I like the part in the article where she talks about Pakistani “pen pal” she went to visit because this “pen pal” cant get into the USA since 9/11.
Does the term useful idiot ring a bell?
labwrs on August 17, 2006 at 6:20 PM
Similarly, she reminds me of disgruntled young girls who rebel against their family and society and seek to hang out with Ganta Rappa types because that’s the underground en vogue.
Egfrow on August 17, 2006 at 6:26 PM
We’re definitely seeing lefties in all their glory … Greenwald, Frisch, Mayo and the list goes on and on.
darwin on August 17, 2006 at 6:39 PM
Who wants to tell her that Yusuf is a Brit?
Pablo on August 17, 2006 at 6:55 PM
Has she not been paying attention to recent output?
mikeyboss on August 17, 2006 at 9:06 PM
If her warped mind could grasp that peace is a result of patriotism, she wouldn’t need to drop trou and pee on a crowded airplane.
speed647 on August 17, 2006 at 10:23 PM
Yeah, squatting and p—ing in the aisle of a plane doesn’t hold the same cache it once did, does it.
A frickin’ journalist. “What a shame, she writes so well…”
So, ethics expert, here’s a question for you: if slavery hadn’t been the issue in the Civil War, would you still have supported Abraham Lincoln’s decision to hold the United States together or not? Why (or why not)?
RD on August 18, 2006 at 12:28 AM
BDS
Entelechy on August 18, 2006 at 5:31 AM
BDS ==>
1. (Troops move into Iraq) F—in’ Bush!
2. (person loses their job) F—in’ Bush!
3. (person stubs their toe) F—in’ Bush!
4. (Katrina hits the La. coast)
- “He screwed up the rescue operation personally”
- “He caused the dikes to fail by withholding money”
- “He caused the global warming that caused the hurricane”
“Oh my God, I just realized. He’s three times guilty. F—IN’ BUSH!”
RD on August 18, 2006 at 9:02 AM
Well claims of mental Illness are going to be here defense… So is Liberalism going to be a valid defense now, for anti-social behavior?? According to her son, she is a big-time peace Activist…and has written articles for the Pakistani papers denouncing America and it’s policies…
havok on August 18, 2006 at 11:32 AM
As a native Vermont who has recently returned, I’m once again embarassed. Civil Unions, Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders (only self proclaimed socialist in Washington), now a crazy Bush hater who brings a screw driver, says a lot of crazy stuff, and pees on a plane? By the way, she has been to Pakistan a number of times… Initially in 2002 it was to meet her online boyfriend to decide whether or not to marry him! Read my post for details… While I don’t necessarily think she’s a terrorist or anything… wtf did she bring a screwdriver on the plane for?
RightWinged on August 18, 2006 at 12:22 PM
Hours of bizarre behavior…
Entelechy on August 18, 2006 at 12:36 PM
She wrote “president not elected by the people” – 62 million of us are not people – it’s clear to me now.
Entelechy on August 18, 2006 at 1:13 PM
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