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[berkeman]

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Boeing reportedly investigating empty tequila bottles found on a future Air Force One[/size]

New York (CNN Business) -- Drinking alcohol and building planes don't really mix. That's why Boeing is reportedly investigating two small, empty tequila bottles that were found on one of the planes set to serve as the next Air Force One.

The plane is one of two 747 jumbo jets being modified to meet the needs of securely carrying the US president and staff. Although it's not a big part of Boeing's business, it is a high profile "halo" project that is important for bolstering the company's battered reputation. So any concerns involving the president's future jet is about the last thing Boeing needs.

The probe over the tequila bottles was reported Monday by the Wall Street Journal. The plane is being modified at a Boeing facility in San Antonio, and alcohol is banned at all Boeing factories.
Boeing would not confirm or deny the report, saying simply, "This is a personnel matter and for contractual reasons we are unable to comment further."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/business/boeing-air-force-one-tequila/index.html[/size]

 

[Astronuc]

Hmmm, I hadn't thought about that. With her having mental health issues I was leaning towards that as the cause in a best case. But you may be right!

If they are screwing around they are going to be very sorry!

There was a lot of strange speculation on social media about their situation, including involvement in a double homicide near Moab.

To me, Ms. Petito obviously looked distressed. Mental health issue/crisis (Aug 12), apparently, but certainly she was vulnerable. A caller to 911 apparently did state that her fiance struck her.

The latest developments include a couple who picked up Brian Laundrie (fiance) hiking along the highway on August 29, three days before he showed up in Florida driving the white van, without Ms. Petito. When the couple indicated they were driving to Jackson Hole (south of Spread Creek camping area) near Jackson, where he apparently want to to, he had them stop, and he exited the vehicle.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/tiktoker-claims-she-picked-brian-114944770.html

FBI were tipped off to the location where a body matching the description of Ms. Petito was located by a couple who apparently videoed her white Ford Transit van with Florida license plates in the remote camping area; the as-yet-to-identifed body was found near that location. "Jenn and Kyle Bethune, part of a vlogging family known as Red White & Bethune on YouTube, posted footage on Sunday showing a white van on their travels." The video was captured on August 27 at around 6 p.m. in Grand Teton National Park's Spread Creek Dispersed camping area.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/new...als-find-body-matching-description/vi-AAODsLq

Brian Laundrie disappeared from his parents home on Tuesday, September 14, 3 days after Ms. Petito's parents file a missing person report. At the time, Mr. Laundrie refused to provide any information to police. He responded through a lawyer, and his family stated that they hoped the Ms. Petito would be found alive and returned home.

What kind of person abandons a significant other (fiancé), shows up with that person's property/vehicle but without the s.o., refuses to provide information to police as to the whereabouts, then disappears? Mr. Laundrie exhibits incriminating behavior.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oops...

Boeing reportedly investigating empty tequila bottles found on a future Air Force One
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/business/boeing-air-force-one-tequila/index.html[/size]

I hate it when that happens!

 

[berkeman]

I hate it when that happens!

C'mon, admit to it. You and a coworker were playing sexy passenger and flight attendant on a redeye flight...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

C'mon, admit to it. You and a coworker were playing sexy passenger and flight attendant on a redeye flight...

 

[berkeman]

She doesn't look like a fan of tequila (nor am I, please don't ask why). Which part of the plane did you work on? Asking for a friend...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

She doesn't look like a fan of tequila (nor am I, please don't ask why). Which part of the plane did you work on? Asking for a friend...

Women generally like Vodka. And if you're assuming I'm employed by Boeing then you would know I've never done a day of work.

 

[Astronuc]

tequila (nor am I, please don't ask why)

Vodka in my case. Bad combination of vodka and tang, vodka and Fanta root beer, vodka straight, and cheap cigars. I inadvertently discovered the worst mixers for vodka.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Vodka in my case. Bad combination of vodka and tang, vodka and Fanta root beer, vodka straight, and cheap cigars. I inadvertently discovered the worst mixers for vodka.

You can't go wrong with Sex on the Beach. The name alone makes it the perfect date drink.

Then you ask if she'd like some sex on the beach and pretend you meant the other thing when she says yes. But then it gets confusing because maybe she meant real sex on the beach and not the drink... damn! dating is confusing.

 

[strangerep]

You can't go wrong with Sex on the Beach.

Yes, you can! I can tell you from personal experience that when she gets sand in the wrong places the festivities "grind" to a halt very quickly.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

There was a lot of strange speculation on social media about their situation, including involvement in a double homicide near Moab.

To me, Ms. Petito obviously looked distressed. Mental health issue/crisis (Aug 12), apparently, but certainly she was vulnerable. A caller to 911 apparently did state that her fiance struck her.

The latest developments include a couple who picked up Brian Laundrie (fiance) hiking along the highway on August 29, three days before he showed up in Florida driving the white van, without Ms. Petito. When the couple indicated they were driving to Jackson Hole (south of Spread Creek camping area) near Jackson, where he apparently want to to, he had them stop, and he exited the vehicle.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/tiktoker-claims-she-picked-brian-114944770.html

FBI were tipped off to the location where a body matching the description of Ms. Petito was located by a couple who apparently videoed her white Ford Transit van with Florida license plates in the remote camping area; the as-yet-to-identifed body was found near that location. "Jenn and Kyle Bethune, part of a vlogging family known as Red White & Bethune on YouTube, posted footage on Sunday showing a white van on their travels." The video was captured on August 27 at around 6 p.m. in Grand Teton National Park's Spread Creek Dispersed camping area.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/new...als-find-body-matching-description/vi-AAODsLq

Brian Laundrie disappeared from his parents home on Tuesday, September 14, 3 days after Ms. Petito's parents file a missing person report. At the time, Mr. Laundrie refused to provide any information to police. He responded through a lawyer, and his family stated that they hoped the Ms. Petito would be found alive and returned home.

What kind of person abandons a significant other (fiancé), shows up with that person's property/vehicle but without the s.o., refuses to provide information to police as to the whereabouts, then disappears? Mr. Laundrie exhibits incriminating behavior.

It's her. And it appears that she was murdered - not natural causes, not self inflicted. And Brian is nowhere to be found.

I should say it was pronounced a homicide, which does not necessarily mean nefarious intent.

 

[Astronuc]

I should say it was pronounced a homicide, which does not necessarily mean nefarious intent.

He just showed up at his parents home, 2365 miles away, in her van, without her, ostensibly leaving her body on the ground. He did not notify her parents or police. Then he disappeared. There is a lot to indicate nefarious intent.

He might have accidentally killed her, but his actions since about August 25 are suspicious.

 

[Astronuc]

Not actually weird, but highly unusual.

A case of “pneumonic plague” has been detected in a Wyoming resident, and the state’s health department is calling the infection “rare but serious.”

The bacterial infection was transmitted after the person had contact with sick pet cats, according to a Sept. 15 news release from the Wyoming Department of Health. If not treated quickly with antibiotics, plague can be deadly.

The disease can spread from person to person and from sick animals to humans, the department said. It is considered the most serious form of plague.

Read more here: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article254413893.html

This confirmed “human plague case” is the seventh recorded case in Wyoming since 1978, officials said.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-58638752

New Zealand Covid: Men caught smuggling KFC into lockdown-hit Auckland​

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-58638752

New Zealand Covid: Men caught smuggling KFC into lockdown-hit Auckland​

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KFC is a gateway chicken

 

[gmax137]

He just showed up at his parents home, 2365 miles away, in her van, without her, ostensibly leaving her body on the ground. He did not notify her parents or police. Then he disappeared. There is a lot to indicate nefarious intent.

He might have accidentally killed her, but his actions since about August 25 are suspicious.

I'm not saying this is wrong, but I can think of other scenarios just as possible.

 

[Astronuc]

I'm not saying this is wrong, but I can think of other scenarios just as possible.

But not plausible. If he is innocent, why the silence, then disappearance? Why not call police or sheriff immediately when she 'disappeared'. Instead he drove nearly 2400 miles in her van, then didn't call authorities or her parents when he arrived home without her (he is her fiancé afterall), then remained silent for 10 days and didn't respond to police questions or her families queries but instead reached out to a lawyer, then disappeared. Seems awfully suspect. And he's still only a person of interest?! Some people have been arrested and prosecuted for much less.

Self defense? I doubt.

Edit/update: Witnesses describe an altercation/incident at a restaurant on Aug. 27. The van was spotted at the Spread Creek area the evening of Aug 27 (video was sent to FBI).
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update-wednesday/index.html

Jackson, Wyoming (CNN)A couple from Louisiana who were vacationing in Jackson, Wyoming, last month said Wednesday they saw an incident involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in a restaurant in one of the last sightings of Petito before her death.

Nina Angelo told CNN on Wednesday that she and her boyfriend, Matt England, saw a "commotion" as Petito and Laundrie were leaving The Merry Piglets Tex-Mex restaurant on August 27.

Angelo said Petito was in tears and Laundrie was visibly angry, going into and out of the restaurant several times, continuing to show anger toward the staff around the hostess stand.

The couples' waitress was also visibly shaken by the incident, according to Angelo, who told CNN she did not see any violence or physical altercation between Petito and Laundrie.

Edit/update (23 Sep, 2021) - The US District Court of Wyoming has issued a federal arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie, according to the FBI's Denver field office. The FBI said the warrant was issued "pursuant to a Federal Grand Jury indictment related to Mr. Laundrie's activities following the death of Gabrielle Petito," and for the "use of unauthorized devices" related to Laundrie's activities following the death of Petito. Significance: Laundrie apparently used Ms. Petito's bank card to withdraw money, ostensibly from her account, after her disappearance, and perhaps after she was killed.

 

[nsaspook]

On a lighter note:
https://www.newsweek.com/wan-find-frozen-food-freezer-grandparents-1972-defrosts-1631491
Woman Finds Food in Grandparents' Freezer Dating Back to 1972 Then Defrosts It

 

[nsaspook]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/c-17-flyover-brisbane-australia-riverfire/

Now, boys, we got three engines out; we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule; the radio's gone and we're leakin' fuel, and if we's flying any lower, why, we'd need sleigh bells on this thing. But we got one little bulge on them Rooskies, at this height, why, they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't going to spot us on no radar screen.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/c-17-flyover-brisbane-australia-riverfire/

I think it was ten years ago when they did a flyby like that in New York City to commemorate 911. People freaked out because they thought it was another attack.

 

[gmax137]

... C-17 ...

Have you ever been inside one of those? They're huge. They bring one into the Reno Air Races most years as part of the "static display." I thought the C-130 was big until I walked up into the C-17.

 

[Astronuc]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/us/fawn-fire-california-charges/index.html

Woman charged with starting California's Fawn Fire while trying to boil water​

(CNN) A woman who was attempting to hike to Canada is facing charges connected with the Fawn Fire, which authorities say she started while trying to boil drinking water, according to a criminal complaint from the Shasta County District Attorney's Office in California.

I heard that the woman walked out of the brush with a lighter.

"We are aware that there are possible additional fires here in our county that she may be linked to as well as other charges in other fires, statewide," Bridgett said at a news conference Friday. "My office will not hesitate to prosecute (any) person who either intentionally or recklessly starts a fire."

 

[berkeman]

What a story. Nobody boils water anymore, we just use filters...

Plus, campfires were probably not allowed by that time in the woods. In most places in Cali you need to get a campfire permit from CalFire for the area you will be in, and into the middle and late summer permits are not issued.

 

[nsaspook]

Have you ever been inside one of those? They're huge. They bring one into the Reno Air Races most years as part of the "static display." I thought the C-130 was big until I walked up into the C-17.

I've only taken a trip on the old C-5 to Diego Garcia once back in the 80's. That was a huge plane too.

 

[berkeman]

I've only taken a trip on the old C-5 to Diego Garcia once back in the 80's.

Did you deplane via parachute?

 

[Astronuc]

What a story. Nobody boils water anymore, we just use filters...

Plus, campfires were probably not allowed by that time in the woods. In most places you need to get a campfire permit from CalFire for the area you will be in, and into the middle and late summer permits are not issued.

I'm not sure she had sufficient equipment to hike to Canada. I'm wondering if she is not all there.
Meanwhile, in Texas, of course,

A teen truck driver in Texas ran over six cyclists on Saturday, sending four of them to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The cyclists riding along a highway in Houston when a black diesel pickup truck intentionally slowed down and then accelerated in front of them to blow exhaust on the cyclists, one of the riders said.

The driver was not arrested.
https://www.insider.com/truck-runs-...zed-after-attempted-blow-smoke-exhaust-2021-9

 

[berkeman]

The driver was not arrested.

The article says not arrested yet. I've been a Medic SAG on many bike rides and races, and we've had to deal with unruly drivers a number of times. Luckily no major injuries or deaths from the incidents so far. At least this kid had the good sense to stay on-scene afterwards to wait for the police to arrive. 16 years old, Lordy.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

John Hinckley Jr was released from any restrictions for shooting President Reagan 40 years ago.

I noticed that he has online music videos.

 

[nsaspook]

Did you deplane via parachute?

No, we landed normally and the nice British man at immigration stamped my passport.

It was still pretty much like this back then.

 

[Keith_McClary]

the nice British man at immigration stamped my passport.

It was still pretty much like this back then.

UN court rules UK has no sovereignty over Chagos islands​

The UK is ignoring this (but somehow still gets a say in appointing the judges).