Monday, March 8, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The World's Youngest Air-Traffic Controller
A major inquiry was launched yesterday over claims a child directed pilots at New York's JFK airport. Audio recordings made in mid-February apparently featuring a child's voice - with one pilot replying "Awesome Job!" - were posted on a website for plane enthusiasts.
Investigators are taking the claims seriously because the period coincides with a winter break for New York schools.
The voice makes five transmissions to pilots preparing for take off from one of the country's busiest airports. In one, the voice says: "Jet Blue 171 contact departure." The pilot replies: "Over to departure Jet Blue 171. Awesome job."
The child seemed to be under adult supervision as a male voice says with a laugh: "That's what you get, guys, when the kid's out of school." In another, the voice clears a jet for take off and says: "Adios, amigo."
The Federal Aviation Administration said children are allowed visits with strict rules, but added: "Pending our investigation, the employees involved are not controlling air traffic."
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
This has the makings of an incredible comedy film
A self-styled Hindu holy man and a British Airways flight attendant have been arrested in Delhi on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-dollar prostitution racket.Police said that Shiv Myra Dwivedi, a Hindu swami, used his temple in south Delhi as a front to provide as many as 200 prostitutes, including flight attendants and students, often to clients in five-star hotels.
In his spiritual guise he claimed a following of more than 100,000 people, including leading politicians. Undercover officers arrested him, another alleged pimp and six alleged prostitutes including two flight attendants, one from British Airways and one from the Indian airline Jagson, on Friday evening, Delhi police said.
The six women, aged between 19 and 30 and including an MBA student, each gave fake Indian names, apart from one identified only as “Ms. Julie.”
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
"IF I CAN'T HAVE THIS MONEY NOW I'LL EAT THIS CARDBOARD, I SWEAR!"
A man was flying with Ryanair when he discovered he won €10,000 as part of one of the company’s promotions. After learning that he couldn’t get the money at that moment, he became frustrated: The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow, in Poland, to East Midlands Airport when he won €10,000 with the scratch card.
Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane.
Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for Ryanair, said the cabin crew and some passengers had attempted to persaude the man not to eat the ticket, but he stood up and ate it anyway.
Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane.
Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday.
Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for Ryanair, said the cabin crew and some passengers had attempted to persaude the man not to eat the ticket, but he stood up and ate it anyway.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Don't be surprised when Virginia Tech enrollment hits an all-time low
At Virginia Tech, where tailgating and raucous apartment complex parties are time-honored rituals, university officials are turning increasingly to Mom and Dad to curb problem underage drinking. This semester, the school in Blacksburg, Va., began notifying parents when their under-21 students are found guilty of even minor alcohol violations such as getting caught with a beer in a dorm room.
Although it's common for colleges to alert parents of major alcohol offenses — or when a student faces suspension — Virginia Tech is part of a small but growing number sending letters home on minor ones.
Tiger Texting Revolutionizes Cheating!
Want to cheat on your spouse, but not end up like Tiger Woods?There's an app for that.
A new iPhone application called Tiger Text eliminates the possibility of damaging evidence being left behind by erasing text messages from recipients' phones.
"People text like they talk," the app's creator, Jeffery Evans, told Time. "And some of the things they say, taken out of context, can come back to haunt them."
A sender using the Tiger Text application can set how long they want the message to stay on a recipient's phone before it is deleted for good.
Users can also choose a "delete on read" setting, giving people a set time to look at the text before the message self-destructs, "Mission: Impossible" style.
Evans claims the app's name was chosen before Woods was outed as a philanderer late last year.
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