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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Penn State Abington Professor Speaks Out About Her Miami Arrest
2015-03-18
[PhillyMag]
She may have been under the influence when she harangued and smoked on the flight home from her Venezuelan vacay (videos at the link), but she was sober when the reporter interviewed her. Which suggests she may actually have been sober when she did and said those things on the airplane as well. More here. Hat tip to Shipman.
Posted by:trailing wife

#15  I have to broadly or nominally agree wid #9 - FROM PSU-STATE COLLEGE TO PSU-ABINGTON, A PROMOTION OR DE-MOTION???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-03-18 21:02  

#14  tu3031 - BHCC, lol, now you're just being mean!
Posted by: Raj   2015-03-18 15:49  

#13  Sounds like Press TV Iran has another one for their rolodex...
Posted by: tu3031   2015-03-18 15:43  

#12  Regular Joe, I think she should have gotten an AD&D charge myself.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-03-18 14:36  

#11  She was lucky:
On August 11, 2000, Jonathan Burton stormed the cockpit door of the Boeing 737 on Southwest Airlines flight 1763 from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, in an apparent case of air rage. The 19-year-old was subdued by six to eight other passengers with such force that he died of asphyxiation.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-18 13:38  

#10  JQC, I like the way you think.
TU, she is also a grad of BC, which explains her drinking and shitting-in-the-interrogation-room problems.
Posted by: regular joe   2015-03-18 13:33  

#9  I read this yesterday. She's gone from Bowdoin to University of Vermont and now Penn State-Abington.
Magic Eight Ball sez, "Career Track Downward".
Wonder if she'll still have a job there? If not, Bunker Hill Community College, here I come!
Posted by: tu3031   2015-03-18 12:24  

#8  You could encourage her to take it up with the captain. When she heads for "rushes" the cockpit, tackle her and gag and bind her--by all means gag her.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-18 11:49  

#7  Does a fellow flyer have any recourse when this happens? Granted, if you are on a Nicaragua to Miami flight you may have to expect this, but flying stinks enough w/out having to put up w/a nutjob acting out w/apparent impunity. A D&D charge and release don't cut it. Will she at least be put on a no-fly list?
Posted by: regular joe   2015-03-18 11:08  

#6  P2k, love it!
Posted by: AlmostAnonuymous5839   2015-03-18 10:43  

#5  Had to look this up. If anyone really gives a flip: Paper.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-18 10:42  

#4  Her paper was entitled: "Defending the Self In a Total Institution: Staff Prompting and Patient Burlesque,"

Anybody have a clue what this ditsy little daisy is talking about or is she completely off in the moonbat category?
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-18 10:38  

#3  This is what academia calls 'intellectual'. Institution of higher learning it is not.

Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-18 09:49  

#2  "Listen, the point is, I am a sociologist, and I live in an intellectual world"

fire her ass and ship her back to Venezuela. They deserve her
Posted by: Frank G   2015-03-18 09:38  

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Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-03-18 01:26  

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