Posts Tagged ‘flying’
Terrified hang glider student hangs on with one hand over beautiful scenery
To Switzerland, where a hang glider instructor has such faith in his student (or burning hatred – ed), he didn’t properly attach him to the glider. Try not to look down – but if you must, enjoy the scenery. It is the ‘Swiss Mishap’:
Posted: 10th, December 2018 | In: News, Strange But True | Comment
Fear of flying meant boy took 16 months to get from Abu Dhabi to Somerset
JOE Thompson, 12, took 16 months to fly from the Abu Dhabi to his native Weston-super-Mare, in Somerset. No, not a RyanAir booking gone awry. Young Joe became terrified of flying. The Times reports that he was only able to return to the UK after “months of preparation by a hypnotherapist, who accompanied him on the journey home.”
One word: boats.
But we’d be wrong. His father ways he was unable to obtain the visa required for a trip by land and sea. So. Joe had to fly or remain in AbuDhabi forever.
Or maybe take a cruise ship?
But, then, what about another word: drugs. We get no word on them. But they do work.
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Posted: 7th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Top five celebrity flight faux pas: Boon, Henson, Gallagher, NY Mets, Depardieu and Three Lions
THE TOP FIVE CELEBRITY FLIGHT FAUX PAS
Gavin Henson: icy reception
Gavin Henson’s alcohol-related antics on a flight from Glasgow to Cardiff were mild by the standards of Rugby Union. The Welsh international and occasional reality TV star threw ice cubes and generally acted the goat, but did nothing truly appalling.
Nevertheless this was enough, in these squeaky-clean times, to get him sacked by his club Cardiff Blues.
Surely some perspective is need here. After all, it’s not as if he’s the first celebrity to roll in the gutter while soaring through the skies, as you will see from our Top Five Celebrity Flight Faux pas….
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Posted: 4th, April 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
