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BaseLine
11-05-2004, 11:54 AM
Naked Canadian man jumps on moving Qantas jet
A Canadian man angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport has stripped naked, climbed a barbed wire fence, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet.
Pilots of the Qantas flight stopped the plane.
The man was coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.
"This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do," Ms Castles said.
"If he had continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at over 320 kilometres per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up by an engine.
"If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism.
"And if not, he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15-and-a-half hour flight at 9,150 metres while wearing no clothes."
Neil Melly, 31, tried to buy a one-way ticket on the Qantas flight on Monday evening but was turned down because he could not supply a valid credit card, Ms Castles said.
Later he managed to climb over an airport fence, topped by three strands of barbed wire, without injury and was spotted by a ramp worker "running, naked, full-speed" toward the plane.
Ms Castles said a check by authorities found that Mr Melly had been reported missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was suffering from bi-polar disorder.
Source: ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1234821.htm)
If this would've happened two weeks from now, I would've suspected a particular person on this board.
Darth Buddha
11-05-2004, 12:00 PM
Far out... I wonder what the significance of the doing it without clothes was?
I mean, it almost seems like he was trying to insure he was frozen by the time he reached the other end: a corpsicle!
BrowderChick
11-05-2004, 12:01 PM
OMG :eek:
arthurfrdent
11-05-2004, 12:07 PM
um, yeah serious mental issues... on the other hand just think how relieved the person that would have been sitting next to him on the flight must be...
Judith
11-05-2004, 12:08 PM
Far out... I wonder what the significance of the doing it without clothes was?
I mean, it almost seems like he was trying to insure he was frozen by the time he reached the other end: a corpsicle!
Can't find it right now...I'm at work...but I read in another article that when questioned...he said he stripped naked to protest being denied a ticket sale.
tribsaint
11-05-2004, 12:13 PM
stripped naked, climbed a barbed wire fence...
Ouch...in that order? >.<
AyuRocks
11-05-2004, 12:17 PM
OMG.. we're so best friends! I was just about to post EXACTLY that.
AgentSun
11-05-2004, 12:38 PM
i don't know what is more disturbing. him naked or trying to board a plane.
Mazinkaiser
11-05-2004, 01:02 PM
Ouch...in that order? >.<
good question :eek:
Far out... I wonder what the significance of the doing it without clothes was?
I mean, it almost seems like he was trying to insure he was frozen by the time he reached the other end: a corpsicle!
Well, I know when I see a random naked guy in public, my first thought is always, "Why, gee, he must be protesting some personal injustice..."
I guess the reasoning was "Why not?". I mean, once you've decided to go run and tackle a moving jet, and subject yourself to about fourteen ways to go to your certain doom, why not do it naked, just to make sure? In the words of Scorpius "Planning and foresight." The last thing you want after managing not to fall off during takeoff and avoiding being crushed by the landing gear is to not freeze to death.
Poor guy must be in need of some medication. It's cold enough down here in most of the States that most people wouldn't even want to be running around naked, never mind the barbed wire and the plane. Hmmm... although, he was trying to get a ticket to Australia... and it's moving into warmer months there.... I guess he could be a really, really, really determined nudist who can't stand the cold. Either way, far out, indeed.
Darth Buddha
11-05-2004, 01:12 PM
.... I think he just has a bizarre airplane landing gear fetish.
BaseLine
11-05-2004, 01:21 PM
No he has bipolar disorder (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm).
Judith
11-05-2004, 01:21 PM
.... I think he just has a bizarre airplane landing gear fetish.
Well, who doesn't?
Kurt_eh
11-05-2004, 02:11 PM
Far out... I wonder what the significance of the doing it without clothes was?
I mean, it almost seems like he was trying to insure he was frozen by the time he reached the other end: a corpsicle!
It just shows security that he has no concealed weapons...
...or does he :eek: :moon:
faustus
11-05-2004, 10:00 PM
ok who thinks this was smart?
ohh look a tumbleweed
AgentSun
11-05-2004, 10:16 PM
maybe he didn't want anything hanging that would get caught in landing gear...
oh wait...
can't take that off, can he...
Mike0812
11-05-2004, 10:20 PM
Had to be a Canuck...eh :rolleyes:...:D
shadowshiv
11-06-2004, 01:37 AM
Why isn't anybody saying anything about the poor plane? It had naked guy on it, poor thing! :eek: ;) :D
Antrobus
11-07-2004, 05:18 AM
Well, I think history has proven that a naked man will jump just about anything !:rollin:
...but an airplane, well that's just out of a naked man's league!! :D
JadedLegend3
11-07-2004, 07:47 AM
Kurt! Have you been bad again??? :P
AgentSun
11-07-2004, 10:23 AM
kurt, um, where did you go the last few weeks? you haven't been looking at Qantas flight schedules have you?
trubador
11-07-2004, 04:09 PM
.... I think he just has a bizarre airplane landing gear fetish.
:roflmao:
trubador
11-07-2004, 04:28 PM
http://users.telenet.be/eforum/emoticons4u/trans/fahr01.gif http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys2/arsch.gif http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/obscene/eck27.gif
DRD2001
11-07-2004, 04:48 PM
maybe he didn't want anything hanging that would get caught in landing gear...
oh wait...
can't take that off, can he...
Considering the temperatures he would be encountering during the flight, I doubt anything would be hanging that would get in anything's way.
Kurt_eh
11-07-2004, 09:15 PM
Nah, I'm flying WestJet to Burbank! ;) :innocent:
Spedoinkel
11-07-2004, 09:23 PM
I guess the reasoning was "Why not?". I mean, once you've decided to go run and tackle a moving jet, and subject yourself to about fourteen ways to go to your certain doom, why not do it naked, just to make sure?
Sounds like solid logic to me.
shadowshiv
11-07-2004, 09:38 PM
Nah, I'm flying WestJet to Burbank! ;) :innocent:
Gonna give the other 'Scapers a little something to remember you by, eh Kurt? :innocent:
Lolly
11-07-2004, 09:41 PM
It's a shame he didn't succeed, he probably would've fitted right in here. :D
shadowshiv
11-07-2004, 09:51 PM
It's a shame he didn't succeed, he probably would've fitted right in here. :D
Do you mean literally or figuratively? :eek:
Lolly
11-07-2004, 10:02 PM
Do you mean literally or figuratively? :eek:
um...figuratively...whoops. :eek:
shadowshiv
11-07-2004, 10:03 PM
um...figuratively...whoops. :eek:
:D
What is it with these stories linking to Austrailia, first a dildo closing an airport, now this, what next?
fermicat
11-08-2004, 11:08 AM
Far out... I wonder what the significance of the doing it without clothes was?
New stories are always funnier if they are about something a naked guy does.
shadowshiv
11-08-2004, 09:56 PM
New stories are always funnier if they are about something a naked guy does.
Seems to be happening more and more recently. :eek: :D
Seems to be happening more and more recently. :eek: :D
Tis a sad world :(
shadowshiv
11-10-2004, 04:10 AM
Tis a sad world :(
That is quite true, but there is still hope for us all. :)
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