She who smelt it.
 

An American Airlines flight, headed to Texas, had to make an emergency landing in Nashville when passengers began reporting that they smelled the scent of burning matches. Turned out, a female passenger had been farting and was lighting matches to cover the smell. :rolleyes:

http://www.nbc4.tv/travelgetaways/10466832/detail.html

that stinks. Perhaps she was trying to light them. A terrorist plot gone awry?

It just points to the increasing number of people that are unequiped to deal with the modern world.

Just yesterday I had a driver in front of me pull into a busy intersection while waiting to make a left. When the light went yellow he just sat there right in the middle of the intersection. It went red and still he just stayed right in the middle while people honked and tired to go around him.... What a moron.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge that person. We once were driven up to Los Angeles by a friend who had spent basically his whole life in San Diego. By the time he learned to drive, San Diego, like Orange County, had left turn arrows at 99.99999% of its intersections. So when our poor friend, in the middle of West LA, had to make a left turn on a busy street with no left turn arrow...he was utterly lost. "But, the cars just keep coming. If I move into the intersetcion, I'll get stuck there when the light turns red!" Fortunately for him, we were in the car to coach him through it. Otherwise, he likely would have been that guy. He had simply never been trained how to handle that kind of intersection.

Ugh, where I live, there are a lot of turn lights that become yield after a few moments~you can still turn left but you no longer have the right of way. Oh how many times have I been stuck behind some moron who thinks they can't go. Look at the sign!!!!

How did she get matches on the plane? Are those allowed?

From the article: "You can take up to eight books of safety matches, the paper matches, onto the aircraft."

getting jammed up behind someone stranded in an intersection sucks but sadly, Ive been there...its no fun for those stranded either.

Im far more PO'd by those who stop cold in a lane that is clearly marked "MERGING TRAFFIC KEEP MOVING" and cant figure out why everyone behind them is having a stroke. :mad:

Ahh but your friend while confused was not a moron. The key phrase being "If I move into the intersection". He understood it's an all or nothing thing. You don't pull into the intersection unless you are committed to going and you sure as hell don't stay there through an entire light cycle.

I still would give them the benefit of the doubt that it was likely ignorance rather than stupidity. If you've never seen it, it would be quite confusing. Perhaps he saw someone the cycle before move into the intersection, but make it through before the red, so they followed suit, only to find themselves stranded.

Oh my gosh, those turns in downtown L.A.!!! I was so shocked {yes, a San Diegan} when there was no turn lane or light!!! {one or both?} And also the right lane could sometimes have cars parked in it??? I guess there is a time they can? And little tiny intersections, older streets, I guess?

Eh, sorry GD, I didn't read the article. :blush:

Around here, I always wonder if they even have a license. I also think not turning comes from being afraid of getting a ticket?

I am making {trying} to be good and stop calling drivers all sorts of colorful names because my son sits next to me.....I am forever apologizing. Idiots. Oh, and I try to be a good SUV driver. I know they don't stop like a car so I leave space. Quit cutting me off!!! And don't ride my a$$ because you don't know if I am going to stop suddenly.

Sorry to 'hi-jack' your thread. :D

But I don't fly a plane....

OMG, this is too damn funny!

First of all, chicks farting is always comedy gold. :evil:

Secondly, that anyone post 911 anytime could be so stupid as to think it's okay to light a match (IIRC, all domestic flights have been non-smoking for years) on an airplane is just mind-boggling.

I suspect it's an urban myth (sorry CP I'm too lazy to look it up) but I remember the story about the guy getting on a plane and upon seeing an old friend calling out "Hi Jack!". hilarity ensued....

Ha ha. I thought this thread was going to be about GD blaming CP for some smell she noticed...
:D

I thought this thread was gonna be about Tori on It's A Small World...

Lol! Good thing she didn't have any matches; those poor dolls would have wound up like the ones in the Chocolate Factory.

On our flight home from NYC a couple of weeks ago we got stuck next to a kid who released some spectacular farts throughout the trip. Dear God he must have eaten cabbage for breakfast! We spent part of the trip with blankets over our heads trying to block the smell... :eek:

Soemtimes I fart to cover the smell of burning matches.

A company that I used to work for employed a large staff of Vietnamese women. We would always find these piles of used matches next to the toilet. It was apparently a cultural thing. Another thing that they used to do was, if someone cut their finger, they would take a cigarette, cut it open and dump out the tobacco, then pack the tobacco around the cut and cover it with a band-aid. They swore that this helped (I've never tried it so maybe they were correct).

Anyway, that was the first thing I thought of when reading the link. I wouldn't have been in the least surprised to read that it was a Vietnamese woman, although the article didn't state as much.

I just cannot imagine the embarrasment of having to admit that they burning match smell was from you, and it was not because you were a terrorist, but because you farted. I would die!

I have decided to print off a large coloured sign for the rear window of my rental car saying "Australian Driver. Beware." Now, which side of the road do y'all drive on again? :eek:

That's why I find a quick spritz of your Balenciaga (duty free of course) so useful... :D

What I don't understand is how she was able to produce the smell of a burning match without producing the pretty distinctive sound of a match being lit.

My British friend told me, back when she lived there, they had signs in the windows of drivers in training.

My friend moved to Sydney. From New York. She had to get right into driving around town, the other side of the road? And totally unaware of the town.

That is probably how you'll feel. :( Sorry. If I see you I'll be nice. :D

Perhaps that was masked by the sounds of her flatulence?

Airplanes can be pretty noisy,especially if she were sitting in a seat near the engines. And those crappy paper matches can be relatively quiet.

Paper Match = fffffftttthh
Fart = PBLBLBLBPBPBBBPPPPPBLBLBLBLBLBPPPPPPPPPPPPHHHHHHHH H!!!

Ah, that puts it in perspective. :D

That would be a tough call...

Do I admit that I had atrocious gas?

or

Lie, and say I'm a terrorist?

:eek:

Some peoples farts ARE a terrorist attack ! :blush:

I think this is why some airlines now allow pets to fly in coach; it's much easier to blame it on the dog.

Some people are a complete waste of oxygen....