Posted on 07/18/2012 6:18:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Airline officials are trying to figure out if there is anything to be done after a Georgia congressman urinated into a cup on a flight from Washington to Atlanta on Thursday night.
Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop, flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Hartsfield Airport on Delta Flight 1717, got up to go to the bathroom after the mandatory half-hour when passengers must stay seated, but found the lavatories on the airplane occupied, his office and aviation sources said.
Sanford then asked a flight attendant for a cup, and "may" have said he intended to relieve himself, his office said.
He went to a section of the plane between the cockpit and first-class, then urinated into the cup, said Bishop spokesman Selby McCash, who described the congressman as "a very gracious and courtly gentleman."
No one accused him of exposing himself to the flight attendants or crew.
Controversy Over Dire Straits
There is some disagreement, however, over how dire the congressman's straits were.
McCash said Bishop had drunk a large amount of coffee, the flight had been delayed, and by the time the half-hour in the air was up, long lines for the bathroom formed at either end of the plane.
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Ehh, while kinda gross, seems like a non-story. Sometimes circumstances don’t lend themselves to being exactly proper.
However, I take offense to this guy’s spokesman calling him gracious and courtly. NO Democrat is gracious and courtly. Gratuitous and sordid, yes.
This reminds me of the last time I flew. I axed the stewardess (as they were called by this particular airline) where my seat in business class was, and she answered: “You’re in 8!”
How many others were in your private automobile with you?
It’s pretty common when you’re in a convoy in a warzone. Hey, other people can choose to look anywhere. They don’t have to watch.
/johnny
Being a congressional democrat I’m surprised he didn’t ask someone to hold the cup for him....
I am happy for him. At least HE has a pot to piss in.
Whe ya gotta go, you gotta go.
When ya gotta go ... ya gotta go. A cup was better than the seat.
Sorry...I defend the RAT here (ugggghhhhh)
If you have to go due to a medical condition you have to go. Article is silent on that, but no one, including a RAT would do this in public unless they had a bladder issue.
Does he have a wide stance?
Ha!
*Anyone* who has flown significant miles has experienced a bladder-busting situation at least once.
The real problems are these:
1) American airlines chock full of sixty year old union nazi flight attendants who think their crappy airline is doing their customers a favor by carrying them (instead of the other way around), and
2) A nation that, upon discovering that muslims use aircraft as weapons, did NOT choose to kill five hundred million of the scum and turn their damned deserts into radioactive glass. Instead, our PC response was “security theater”, e.g. to invent a new rule every week (like “sit down for thirty minutes before arrival”) to torture the airline passengers in the law abiding countries, many of whom are doing their best to keep the economy (and their jobs) intact under damned difficult conditions.
Therefore I’ve got some sympathy for the congressman, even if he IS a ‘rat.
Zero. But I get your point.
Let’s not get wee-wee’d up about this. /POTUS impression
I didnt know that Delta Flight 1717 leaving Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was in a war zone.
I understand your point, but how is what this elected official did not public indecency?
I would be flogged in the city square for doing this, but Im just a pee-on.
The man could get uromysitisus and die!
What did he do with his cup of chew juice?
Well, he’s pretty white. At least he’s not very black.
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