robin1234

spouse of scouse

He was convicted a couple of months ago, first degree murder. Will be sentenced in a couple of weeks. Here's a piece about booby trap killings, you'll have to excuse me if it's a dodgy source as I don't know anything about American media. I liked the way the journalist wrote though, and agree with most of what he wrote https://chicago.suntimes.com/columni...atko-steinberg

robin1234

scrubbedexpat091

Haven't heard this one before. Passenger on a flight from Pensacola, Florida to Miami wanted a bigger seat when her request was turned down by the flight crew, she faked not being able to breathe, flight returned to Pensacola where she then refused to get off the aircraft, police were able to eventually get her to leave and she was detained under the Baker Act which allows police to detain someone in a mental health facility for 72 hours, no criminal charges have been filed as of the writing.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6242908/f...kFTfHzILHBr_mc

dc koop

She wont be flying again. She's now in the problem passenger data system most likely. No airline will allow her to board

moneypenny20

You have different sized seats on a plane over there? I did not know that was a thing. Or maybe it isn't and that's why they turned her down??? I didn't read the link, I guessed you gave enough of the story to make a comment.

Jerseygirl

AFAIK only in biz and first class.

scrubbedexpat091

First class seats on domestic flights are wider with more leg room, and some airlines like Delta have a premium economy section with more leg room, like 34" inches of leg room vs 31-32" in normal economy. I would assume this lady was trying to get a first class seat if she was looking for a bigger seat.

But looking at the American Airlines website the flight in question was a small regional jet, that isn't going to offer a bigger seat anywhere on that type of aircraft. Maybe she had a panic attack or something, who knows. Regional jets being small and compact affect some people, a few times a year we would have a regional jet operated flight return to gate before taking off because a passenger was too nervous to fly on it. Some people don't do well in small planes.

SultanOfSwing

Emergency exit row, maybe?

Jerseygirl

I don’t like very small planes, meaning less than 12 seats. The larger the better, with as many engines as possible.

scrubbedexpat091

Could be, hard to know since the articles were not all that descriptive.

Looking at seat guru the ERJ-145 has 3 seats with 33 inches of leg room vs 31" for the other 47, width is 17" in all seats.

SultanOfSwing

Checking out seat guru, it looks like maybe seat 1A, or seats 3C and 3D are the bulkhead seats, and seats 18A, B and C are the exit row seats. Those are the only ones that look to have more room than the others.

scrubbedexpat099

Mayors promise to meet after Newark sues NYC for shipping homeless families to N.J.

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/12/may...-families.html

The world we live in.

dc koop

There's a possibility that conditions might well improve if the homeless in San Francisco set up a ,huge campsite outside the home of Nancy Pelosi ditto Governor Newson's residence in Sacramento

caretaker

LAPD officer suspended after body-cam footage shows him fondling a dead woman's breasts:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...s-body-camera/
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-female-corpse