You made extensive legal comments without citation in posts #64 and #90.
Why don’t you ask a moderator to delete those posts?
I showed why there might be a hole in your citations as applied to this case,
and it was not necessary to use other citations to do so.
The articles I can find are a little short of detail as to WTF these two fellows were fighting with the cabin crew about. I must admit to being a bit curious. Anyone have any details?
I’ve come up blank.
http://www.richmond.ca/safety/police/news/releases/planediverted.htm
The only times moderators here delete posts hereabouts is when this get rid of spam threads.
Maybe they will make an exception. Never hurts to ask!
Since you are the one who seems to want the post deleted it is on you to contact a moderator. I will say, however, that they seldom, very seldom, delete anything on this forum. Something it is wise to remember, as whatever a person says here will remain here.
Am I reaing this correctly? colonial wants a moderator to delete a couple of posts made by a reputable Canadian lawyer on a Canadian legal issue?
Thanks for looking - not that it would make much difference to the analysis, given that they have pled guilty, but I must admit to wondering exactly what triggered them.
My guess is that, boys being boys, they were a bit too boisterous. The flight attendants thought joining in would be fun and broke out the handcuffs. Not being ones to enjoy a bit of S&M, the drunks put up a struggle, which only excited the flight atendants even more, eventually resulting the the frequent fliers joining the mile high club.
I guess you and others here have trouble understanding the English language
unless text is larded with emoticons. Try this: :rolleyes:
My comment was sarcastic. The message correctly noted that Mr.Spoons had
violated his own requirement concerning citation, and that rather than let the
offending posts stand he might want them to be deleted.
Got it now?
No. See reply #130.
Furthermore, I myelf would actually prefer that the posts remain as is
since they reveal inconsistency on the part of an opponent.
You are being ridiculous. If there is to be a citation requirement
then lawyers should have to abide by it just like everyone else.
PS: I have no idea if he is reputable, or even if he is really a lawyer.
Two points:
Sarcasm often does not translate to text. Hence the evolution of conventions like [/sarcasm] 
and :rolleyes: and the like to indicate you are not entirely serious.
If no one picked up that you were sarcastic then the problem might not be us, it might be that you did not effectively convey your message.
Typos aside, I am confident that my writing is clear enough to discriminating readers.
Guess I lost my ability as a discriminating reader when I stopped teaching English at universities and colleges. My bad.
You probably ODed on the likes of Joyce, Eliot and Pound. No smilie.
It has been scientifically, peer-review proven that any attention given to those writers
causes irreversible damage to general reading comprehension ability. (I will leave it to
your discrimating mind’s eye to decide if smilies should be understood to exist anywhere
in the last two lines)
I like the way you guess.
Forget it, Muffin. It’s Chinatown.
Someone take a head-first spill from his Batmobile?
That has also been known to impair reading comp abilities.
Can even make you go completely batty!
They may not be able to blow up the plane, but they sure could seriously injure other passengers or the flight attendants - and once that plane sets off across the Pacific, any medical help is going to be far, far away. And locking them in the bathroom is totally impractical, as the other passengers are going to need to use it. Thirteen hours is a very long time to have to keep your legs crossed! And bathroom space is barely adequate on planes as it is.
Have you ever taken a trans-Pacific flight? They’re hellish enough even without the presence of dangerously unruly people aboard. The Air Canada crew made the right call when they diverted.
Hey Malthus, the CBC says they chewed through the restraints!
Gotta wonder about the bit about them passing out, then waking up and drinking more. Why was alcohol available to them when they regained consciousness?