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"Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against a 56-year-old man whose scrawled note invoking "Gilligan's Island" led a Hawaiian Airlines pilot to turn around a Maui-bound flight and return Wednesday to Portland, Oregon.
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"About 45 minutes into the flight, Johnson gave a comment card in a sealed envelope to a flight attendant, who opened it, read it and gave it to the lead flight attendant, who then gave it to the captain, it said:
""I thought I was going to die, we were so high up," the card said. "I thought to myself: I hope we don't crash and burn or worse yet landing in the ocean, living through it, only to be eaten by sharks, or worse yet, end up on some place like Gilligan's Island, stranded, or worse yet, be eaten by a tribe of headhunters, speaking of headhunters, why do they just eat outsiders, and not the family members? Strange ... and what if the plane ripped apart in mid-flight and we plumited (sic) to earth, landed on Gilligan's Island and then lived through it, and the only woman there was Mrs. Thurston Howell III? No Mary Anne (my favorite) no Ginger, just Lovey! If it were just her, I think I'd opt for the sharks, maybe the headhunters.""
After reading this note, the pilot turned the plane around and went back to Oregon!
So after you're done wiping away the tears of hysterical laughter, what do you think the pilot should have done? A pilot friend of mine says turning the plane around for what is obviously a smart-aleck joke was massively ridiculous.
As a secondary question, if you were stranded on Gilligan's Island with only Lovey, what would you do?
I don't understand one single thing about this post.
I don't understand one single thing about this post.
Really?
Dude gets on a plane in Portland, Oregon, bound for Maui
45 minutes into the flight he hands a flight attendant a note, which is copied (supposedly) in its entirety in the post.
Flight attendants pass it to the pilot, who promptly turns the plane around and returns to Portland, Oregon.
Poll:
Did the pilot do the right thing? Yes, no, or not sure
Poll Part 2:
If you were stranded on Gilligan's Island with only Lovey, would you, as the note-writer says he would; rather be eaten by sharks, let yourself be eaten by headhunters, or, would you instead make the most of it?
Dude gets on a plane in Portland, Oregon, bound for Maui
45 minutes into the flight he hands a flight attendant a note, which is copied (supposedly) in its entirety in the post.
Flight attendants pass it to the pilot, who promptly turns the plane around and returns to Portland, Oregon.
Poll:
Did the pilot do the right thing? Yes, no, or not sure
Poll Part 2:
If you were stranded on Gilligan's Island with only Lovey, would you, as the note-writer says he would; rather be eaten by sharks, let yourself be eaten by headhunters, or, would you instead make the most of it?
What's not to understand?
What's not to understand is that there is nothing in that post that even remotely infers that any pilot flying this mythical plane received a note, nor did it make any mention of what was on this non-existent note. Perhaps next time you write a poll you might include these important details. I'm not a mind reader.
EDIT: I see that you put the info into your post. My apologies. I'm accustomed to polls containing all the information that one needs to vote and not having to read the first post of the poller. Thumbs down for me!
What's not to understand is that there is nothing in that post that even remotely infers that any pilot flying this mythical plane received a note, nor did it make any mention of what was on this non-existent note. Perhaps next time you write a poll you might include these important details. I'm not a mind reader.
EDIT: I see that you put the info into your post. My apologies. I'm accustomed to polls containing all the information that one needs to vote and not having to read the first post of the poller. Thumbs down for me!
No worries. The polls don't give you enough space to provide all the info necessary; hence the use of the OP to fully explain. So are you going to vote?
Anyone who flies at all knows you don't even think jokes about plane crashes unless you want the full body cavity search. The guy was an idiot. I hope he made to reimburse the airline for the cost fuel he forced them to waste.
1] The pilot should not have turned around.
2] Since I am old Lovey is not too bad and I would make the best of the situation. I would search the whole Island and hope to get lucky finding nudes of Mary Ann and Ginger. You know for the visuals Lovey would understand
1. Pilot did the right thing - guy was obviously a nut case
2. Lovey is the only woman around? Me and her would have fun.
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Lovey would understand