Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid' ["She's got some very serious mental health problems."..]

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[Sub-Driver]

Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid'

By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

She was dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, black pants and socks without shoes for the hearing and was ordered held pending a detention and probable cause hearing next Thursday.

Her attorney, federal public defender Page Kelley, said Mayo was "just barely lucid" when they spoke. "She's got some very serious mental health problems."

U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said he hoped to learn more about Mayo's mental state before the next court appearance. "We believe it's important during that time period to have a doctor examine her," he said.

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said. The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added.

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

[Sub-Driver]

dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, black pants and socks without shoes????

[stm]

She sounds like a perfect successor to Howlin' Howie.

[BigTex5]

I don't know if this has been brought up, but I find it curious that these people who freak out on planes always freak out when coming HERE. Why don't they freak out when they leave here and go International?

[SpaceBar]

Did she publish papers about abstract differential vector spaces?

[johniegrad]

I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane

Hide a file in her birthday cake, Josh, and, oh by the way, hold the Mayo.

[stm]

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

The acorn (as in nut) never falls far from the tree does it?

[antiRepublicrat]

"She's got some very serious mental health problems."

She's a liberal?

[NormsRevenge]

Yup, she votes democRat religiously.

[Beckwith]

Any woman who runs to Pakistan to meet a man has more than mental problems.

[Nickname]

Serious mental problems?

Maybe she converted to islam during her stay in Pakistan with her "pen pal."

[Dont Mention the War]

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March.

[GSlob]

"arely lucid"
The lucidity could be speedily restored by administering large enemas every 30 minutes for, say, 48 hours, or till improvement, whichever takes longer. Such a treatment is [sometimes] successful even against leftitis.

[linear]

Ok,perhaps I'm now overly cynical, but does the accompanying picture of the couple embracing look a like a poor cut-and-paste job to anyone else?

[Lady Jag]

freak out on planes always freak out when coming HERE. Why don't they freak out when they leave here and go International?

The answer is obvious.   They're more comfortable with the abnormal.

[Theresawithanh]

"Very serious mental health problems"? Quite an understatement.

I feel a little bit sorry for the Vermont (apparently) moonbat, but I wonder if she ran out of her medications. Remember the one flight disruptor a while back whose wife said he was on medications and hadn't been able to take them?

[BallyBill]

and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

Yea, because of people like your stinkin' hippy mom.

[thoughtomator]

Would that be the same person as "Cathy Mayo, an American journalist based in Pakistan"? Could there possibly be two people with the same first and last names and profession?

Why yes, I think it is

[VOA]

She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11,
2001, he said.
The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added.

'Nuf said!

[Lady Jag]

They used a super-wide angle lens . . . look at the crowd photo in the accompanying slide show; you can see the effect better.

[MEGoody]

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist

Well, of course she is. She has mental health problems.

[linear]

I can't think of a reason why this would be faked, but it just looked odd to my untrained eye.

[geopyg]

In the one article she had the quote from MASH about "..pulling down your pants and sliding on the ice".

I wonder if that's what she was tring to do when she peed on the airplane aisle?

[demkicker]

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.

Yep, your mom smuggled a screw driver, cigarette lighters and matches in her purse, talked about entering a Pakistan illegaly, pulled her pants down and peed on the aisle, but everyone else is paranoid!

[thoughtomator]

And furthermore I would guess that "Catherine Mayo" is not her given name, but rather an assumed one. Why do I say this? Because "Catherine Mayo" is the Pakistan-loving author of a book written in 1927 called "Mother India" which made her name a synonym for India-bashing. "When Catherine Mayo brought out her notorious book "Mother India," Mahatma Gandhi called it a "drain inspector's report." A 69 year old woman today would have been born in 1936 or 1937.

[thoughtomator]

I'd say it's even odds that her stunt was purposeful and that she is far more lucid than her lawyer claims.

[thoughtomator]

I caught that too. The picture is real, if you blow it up you can see that the white outline is an effect of the light on her hair, it does not show evidence of tampering.

[weegee]

Dress her down to make a good "case".

To me, anyone who slashes the throats of the air staff (close hand to hand and premeditated murder of total strangers) and deliberately crashes a plane into a building to kill thousands of other strangers is mentally ill.

But not "warped" enough to excuse the behavior or escape a death sentence.

And in the wake of 9-11, Robert Reid, and others. If you go bug**** in the air, the use of lethal force to take you down should not be debated.

I don't recall the press being this sympathetic about the corporate executive who had a "bad reaction" between his medication and drinks and deficated on a food tray.

[Lady Jag]

You are absolutely right; that photo does not look right. It was not the right lens for a shot like that. You want to use a super-wide to get more of the crowd into the photo. I see different that lenses were used, so this might have been a spur of the moment shot.

[nuconvert]

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid,"

I'd say peeing on the floor is a bit more than "a bit of a bad time".

[Drawsing]

No its real. The halo around her head is probably just some backlighting, although it does look like a white fringe from pasting. Somebody may have thought her head blended into the background too much and put a little line around it to bring it out.

[weegee]

by Catherine Mayo

As a Vermonter used to 6 months of snow...

[thoughtomator]

Notice she discusses Plato a lot for someone who is "barely lucid".

[weegee]

"They are not surprised that Saddam Hussein cannot be found..." C. Mayo

[Muzzle_em]

I wonder how she got those things on the plane so easily!

[nuconvert]

When was that photo taken? She doesn't look 60 there.

[weegee]

Link inside this thread. Surprise, she's a "peace activist" and a Bush hating journalist.

This is what happens when liberals attack.

[ConservativeStatement]

So many South Park quotes come to mind.

[Hoodlum91]

OK - I just had to check the DUmpster:

meisje (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-17-06 04:38 PM
Response to Original message
9. She's clearly a republican plant to make the peace movement look bad


LOL! I needed a good chuckle!

[nuconvert]

LOL.
That's a riot!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said. The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added.

Will Savage tell us tonight that, "liberalism is a mental disorder."

[Jack Black]

I've sent the link to Fox News.
See if it makes "The Grapevine" or O'Reilly Factor.

[weegee]

She has "backlighting" coming from either a flash or a bright spotlight (say on a news videocamera). You see an "eclipsed" effect as her head is blocking much of the light source.

[weegee]

She'd make DU look good!!!

[thoughtomator]

No idea, but I'd gather it was quite some time ago. That's the photo the Pak paper runs with her diatribes.

[TC Rider]

"She's got some very serious mental health problems."

She's a liberal?

I'm betting on BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)

[demkicker]

Because the security system is inept. Until everyone adopts El Al's way of screening passengers, air travelers will remain vunerable to terrorits.

[weegee]

DUmmies PING.

"9. She's clearly a republican plant to make the peace movement look bad"

[Xenalyte]

It's just the way the light is hitting the wife's hair. If it were that bad a job, the husband would be outlined too.

[weegee]

Bit by a rabid barking moonbat. Someone have Cindy Sheehan blood tested...