Urban myth, or at least distorted. It was the acxt of one unknown person, who just wrote a little graffiti. No angry mob, no arson, no attack. And the confusion over the words is unproven speculation, the motive is not known for certain.
NAMBLA could make a killing selling branded shirts for just this reason.
This is a Daily Mail story. Don’t take it seriously.
Yes, this is the “newspaper” that recently claimed that the recent earthquake in Haiti was caused by the movement of two “Teutonic plates” :-
Mail Article (in the box headed “DEVASTATING BUT PREDICTED”)
Or simply have planes that carry no one but children. I’d like that. A screaming tot 20 rows away is still annoying.
Actually, I remember readingnot that long ago about children who had been molested on airplanes by pedophiles. Apparently it happens, though not that often. In general, the man will switch seats in order to be next to the kid. It isn’t just some accident of random seat assignment.
The Germans are at it again?!!
There was a Qantas Flight Attendant who had sex with Ralph Fiennes (sp?) in the toilet of an airliner, so it is possible to get up to mischief. Moving every man away from every child is not the answer though.
Edit: Sorry but I’ve just looked up Ralph Fiennes to make sure I got the spelling right, his full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes! How very English.
And the occasional female; there’s starting to be cases where a woman helps a lost kid (just take him to the lifeguard station on the beach, or to customer support in a supermarket) and the mother goes ballistic and pretty much accuses the helper of trying to kidnap her baby. Yeah, that makes sense: any kidnapper will, as the first step in her heinous plan, take your kid to the place where someone can use the sound system to call for you :smack: Oooof course.
I don’t know about whomever caused BA to come up with the now-being-challenged stupid policy, but these other cases sound to me like the mothers involved are feeling guilty they lost their kid from sight (something that’s happened to pretty much every mother of a toddler, kids are slippery!) and trying to hide/transfer that guilt.
“Tell me Billy . . . you ever like to watch old gladiator movies?”
I don’t fly that often but I have noticed on the two flights I made last year I was not able to select my own seat. And on every flight connection there and back I was seated next to a woman. And I noticed that the flight was pretty much segregated that way. Not entirely, but damn close. This was on Delta.
Wrong again: it’s Ranulph.
Yeah- brat free flights! I’m for that.
No, Ralph Fiennes the actor. Ranulph the explorer is his cousin.
I heard there was a movie about that – Snakes on a plane.
Yeah, that’s Ran Fiennes, different guy, same family.
But it has some great pictures. Like this one of Gordon Brown (second picture)
I’ll… be… in my bunk.
Do the extra names help or hinder the fantasy?
…and come on man, do you not think I’d get it right after Googling it?