Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

Could be useful if you are ever caught on a flight with a Bowhead whale.

And I bet he’ll be reclining his seat!

Those are for drawing the big picture.

Here’s the camera

Okay then, fart detector.

Seriously though, if I’m in a hurry (and on a long plane flight when I have to go I might be) I might just be trying to do my business and get out and not carefully examine my surroundings.

Not to mention this is a 9 year old. I have a 9 year old daughter myself. I am not going to shame her for not noticing and promptly reporting on a phone someone attached in a bathroom. What kind of sociopath does that?! She’s just a kid.

So if I meet a space alien and empty my Glock into him/her/it, there will be no legal repercussions? Other than, possibly, discharging a firearm within city limits, I mean.

Perhaps no legal consequences in any Earth jurisdictions. Interesting question for legal scholars.

The aliens may have different ideas, of course.

That’s when the Green Lantern Corp shows up since it crossed interstellar lines. You don’t want to fuck with them.

Unless you happen to be wearing yellow.

True, throw bananas at them and you might get away with it.

Slingshot guy escapes charges:

How much experience do you have with nine-year-olds?

I teach middle school kids that have less common sense dead mice, with all due respect to dead mice.

I’m with you there, TB, but with high schoolers. They’re like that partly thanks to “social promotion”. Even if a student fails every subject, they’re still advanced to the next grade.

. . . less common sense than dead mice . . .

I could swear I actually know English. . .

Yeah, it’s scary sometimes.

I would think that a 3rd or 4th grader is probably in the “everthing is fairly new to you so you accept it in blind faith” phase, and airplane bathrooms are different enough from regular bathrooms that she didn’t register it as more different than everything else. Especially if it was her 1st flight. How many flights could have a 9-year old gone on?

Did the pervert install the phone just before she entered the bathroom and planned to remove it immediately after? Because if it stayed there for some time, surely an adult passenger would have noticed.

I was wondering that mysel, but if it’s one of the back cabin heads, the asshole would probably have plenty of time to know a victim was coming

I was wondering why the damn flashlight was on, a literal beacon. Today’s phone cameras have pretty good low-light capability. I guess he didn’t want to be looking at a grainy image of a little girl’s butt.

Honestly, I can’t at all understand wanting to look at anyone use a toilet. (And yes, I’ve heard of Rule 34. But still.)

From the article I linked earlier, about the 14-year old who found it:

During the Sept. 2 American Airlines flight 1441, the girl was told by a male member of the crew to use the first-class bathroom. The crew member entered just before the 14-year-old, told her the seat was broken but not to worry about it and then re-entered the bathroom after she left, her family said in a written statement.

So apparently he set it up on a per-encounter basis.