# Attempt To Join Mile-High Club Leads To Arrest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531 "2006-11-15T15:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/1 "2006-11-15T15:30:19Z")
Local Couple In Mile-High Mess Over Frisky Flight > [@](#): > > A California couple whose in-flight friskiness on the way to North Carolina was a bit much for the other passengers are facing federal charges for harassing the flight attendant who asked them to stop. > > Carl Warren Persing and Dawn Elizabeth Sewell are scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 5 at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, N.C., for their behavior during a Sept. 15 flight. The indictment states that “the defendants repeatedly engaged in overt sexual activity in the cabin of the plane to such an extent that the flight attendant had to direct them to stop.” > > But Persing and Sewell wouldn’t halt their public displays of affection, and Persing threatened the flight attendant who made the request and refused to serve them alcohol, according to the court records… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/2 "2006-11-15T16:27:15Z")
If Americans can’t f\*ck on a plane; than the terrorist have already one!! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/3 "2006-11-15T16:49:13Z")
I am sick and TIRED of all these Fucks on a plane! wait a minute … no, I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/4 "2006-11-15T16:53:30Z")
Wow, I thought this kind of stuff only happened in porn movies. Until now, the canonical incident of inappropriate behavior on an airplane was the guy who took a dump on a serving cart. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/5 "2006-11-15T16:55:42Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Wow, I thought this kind of stuff only happened in porn movies. [/QUOTE] What’s really wild is when the Pizza Delivery Guy[sup]TM[/sup] shows up during the inflight movie. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/6 "2006-11-15T16:56:27Z")
For heaven’s sake, everyone knows that if you’re going to join the MHC, you need to do it discreetly: under a blanket in one of the rear rows in the middle of the night on a not entirely full transatlantic. (I would have recommended the St. John’s to London route before Air Canada shut it down.) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/7 "2006-11-15T16:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Wow, I thought this kind of stuff only happened in porn movies.9QUOTE] Maybe it was the bok-chikka-wow-wow music being piped in over the plane’s speaker system. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/8 "2006-11-15T17:03:53Z")
[QUOTE=SHAKES] If Americans can’t f\*ck on a plane; than the terrorist have already one!! [/QUOTE] Have already one fuck in a plane? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempt-to-join-mile-high-club-leads-to-arrest/380531/9 "2006-11-15T17:51:58Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Wow, I thought this kind of stuff only happened in porn movies. [/QUOTE] Nope; I recall a recent incident where a small plane crashed apparently because the two people on board were screwing, and left it on autopilot. Smart.