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[Boris Badenov]

http://consumerist.com/2012/11/06/p...-a-car-hijacking-hours-before-flying-a-plane/

We're all with you, bro! I'll bet that old codger had it coming.

 

[rframe]

Man a pilot cannot even have a little innocent fun between flights now days without it showing up in the news all sensationalized...

 

[SpiraMirabilis]

Get your resume in now!

 

[Rocketman99]

Wow that's awesome. I love the Omni Air guy's quote.

 

[Boris Badenov]

Wow that's awesome. I love the Omni Air guy's quote.

Yeah, I like the fact that they were actually able to "reach" the CEO and that his quote wasn't entirely Manage-Speak.

 

[Rocketman99]

Of course, it's make you wonder if that part of the story is even legit...

 

[popaviator]

Wow. I guess this is what happens when you fly heavy jets The normal ways to kill time just don't cut it anymore. You've got to go balls to the wall lol.

juxtapilot : see Jake, this is why you shouldn't drink Soju

 

[dasleben]

Not I!

Sadly, I've seen too many lives and careers ruined by alcohol.

 

[DubyaDawg]

I've met the Omni CEO and he's a really cool guy, not at all what you'd expect from someone with that position.

 

[juxtapilot]

That's quite a story... I know what happened though. The guy had some drinks... Got in back of what he thought was a taxi (this happens so easily!), and then the taxi driver pulled out a gun! I would have done the same thing! Jump out of the car, run around it a couple times whilst getting chased by the cab driver, then get in the car a drive away fast!!! Then park by a tree and take a nap. Happens to the best of us.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

That's quite a story... I know what happened though. The guy had some drinks... Got in back of what he thought was a taxi (this happens so easily!), and then the taxi driver pulled out a gun! I would have done the same thing! Jump out of the car, run around it a couple times whilst getting chased by the cab driver, then get in the car a drive away fast!!! Then park by a tree and take a nap. Happens to the best of us.

I'm from King County and that sounds vaguely plausible.

 

[Rocketman99]

Perhaps, but they weren't in Florida. That's where this sort of stuff always happens no?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Perhaps, but they weren't in Florida. That's where this sort of stuff always happens no?

Seattle is weird, sir.

 

[Baronman]

Perhaps, but they weren't in Florida. That's where this sort of stuff always happens no?

Pretty much....Florida is bat • crazy.......Maybe it's all the air-conditioning frying their brains. I'd say the have triple the national average of odd-balls.

 

[Minuteman]

"You know, you know."

I don't know anything about the pilot, but I wonder if his co-workers were surprised by this incident.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

Perhaps, but they weren't in Florida. That's where this sort of stuff always happens no?

What amazes me, the number of times my friends have already done this in Florida, yet never made national news.

 

[derg]

I'm from King County and that sounds vaguely plausible.

I saw Seattle to Japan and thought "What did a co-worker do THIS time..." then saw charter... Whew!

 

[dasleben]

I don't know anything about the pilot, but I wonder if his co-workers were surprised by this incident.

Extremely.

 

[Maurus]

I hope the guy got the car insurance with that rental.

 

[ChasenSFO]

That's quite a story... I know what happened though. The guy had some drinks... Got in back of what he thought was a taxi (this happens so easily!), and then the taxi driver pulled out a gun! I would have done the same thing! Jump out of the car, run around it a couple times whilst getting chased by the cab driver, then get in the car a drive away fast!!! Then park by a tree and take a nap. Happens to the best of us.

^Coming from him, this is pretty much fact. He's like the NTSB of drunkenness.