Posts Tagged ‘pee’
Solo sailor saved by her mobile phone after falling overboard
French solo sailing star Florence Arthaud fell off her boat during a toilet break but was saved from the Mediterranean waters by rescuers after she called her mother by mobile phone.
Ms Arthaud, winner in 1990 of the Route du Rhum single-handed transatlantic sailing race, was located and rescued near the island of Corsica thanks to a headlamp and the GPS system on her phone.
A small wave hit the boat and knocked her overboard while she was taking a toilet break without her usual harness, she said.
“I quite simply fell into the water while preparing to take a pee,” the 54-year-old told BFM television.
Ms Arthaud, alone on her 10-metre (33ft) yacht The Argade II when she fell overboard, managed to hold her phone, encased in a waterproof covering, above water and call her mother in Paris to raise the alarm. Her mother alerted a rescue team, which set off in search of the sailor.
She spent almost two hours in the water before being rescued. And probably won’t pee over the side of the boat for a while, I’ll bet.
Pee on the Police Station – then, walk in to make a complaint
Detroit — Authorities said a man urinated on the side of the Royal Oak police station, and then walked inside one afternoon last week. Lt. Gordon Young told the Detroit Free Press that ”after urinating, the suspect entered the station in an attempt to file a police report on an undisclosed matter.”
That’s when witnesses informed the police at the front desk of the man’s activities while outside.
Deputy City Attorney Mark Liss said the man was issued a citation and likely will serve no jail time but pay a fine and court costs of $250.
Uh, OK. Cops are pretty understanding in Detroit. I guess.
Airline wants to add pay toilets
Fresh on the heels of one budget airline announcing that it will ask passengers to pay extra to bring carry-on bags on board, another is considering charging them for using the lavatory.
Ryanair, which is based in Dublin, Ireland, and bills itself as “Europe’s first and largest low fares airline,” is mulling a plan that would require travelers to pay either 1 euro or 1 British pound for using the bathroom on flights lasting one hour or less…
The carrier said it is working with Boeing to develop a coin-operated door release so that when nature calls, passengers would need to deposit the change before being able to use the facilities…
As part of the plan, the airline is also considering removing two of the three lavatories on some of its planes so it could squeeze in up to six extra seats. The move would help reduce fares by at least 5 percent, Ryanair said…
How would it fly with passengers? One hint of how Americans might feel about it may come from an informal poll posted on TripAdvisor.com last summer in which one-fifth of the respondents said they would fly on an airline that charged a fee to access the bathroom; 78 percent said they would not.
Regular readers know I simply will not fly anymore. If I can’t get where I wish to – driving my old pickup truck – I ain’t going.
But if I did, we have a tradition on my side of the family of dealing with absurd rules de pissoir. Usually involving standing in the aisle [or hall or corridor] and pissing wherever we wish. We’ve been at it for a couple of generation AFAIK.
