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Author Topic: Passenger sets fire to paper on plane. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-21-2004 12:14 PM                     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3676562.stm Porn fire passenger spared jail A passenger who admitted endangering the safety of an aircraft after he set fire to a pornographic magazine has walked free from Hove Crown Court. David Mason, 45, started the fire on a flight from Norway to Gatwick because he found a picture offensive. Mason, of Surbiton, Surrey, was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £263 in costs. The court heard he had changed medicine for a mental condition which had led to his behaviour on the February flight. Incineration request At a hearing last month, Lewes Crown Court heard Mason objected to a photo of a black man with a white woman. He used a lighter to set fire to the torn pages on the Braathens Airline Boeing 737. Mason, of Langley Avenue, claimed he became offended by the images and felt compelled to burn them. Stewardesses on flight BU595 from Bergen had refused his request to incinerate paper in the plane's galley oven. They sent him back to his seat, but passengers reported a burning smell, moments later. Cabin crew members extinguished the fire with water. The court also heard he had tried to burn the magazine in a toilet but the cubicle was occupied. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3676562.stm Published: 2004/09/21 12:22:12 GMT © BBC MMIV  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-21-2004 01:11 PM                        If he doesn't like porn then what was he doing in Scandinavia?! That having been said, the last (and only) time I've flown on Braathens there was no heating in the cabin and I nearly froze to death. That might explain the bonfire... and also why the third party was looking at a porno mag in the first place (i.e. warming himself up using a somewhat different method)!  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 09-21-2004 01:20 PM                        quote: If he doesn't like porn then what was he doing in Scandinavia?!  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-21-2004 01:23 PM                     Porn mags on the plane? What was the inflight movie on that one?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-21-2004 01:56 PM                        Probably something very depressing and meaningful diercted by Ingmar Bergman - what a chief projectionist I once worked for termed a 'gin and razor blade movie'.  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 09-21-2004 03:26 PM                     haha Good ones, guys! On one of the photography forums I frequent someone posted a few cheery fall-color shots they'd taken yesterday somewhere in the northeast U.S. After viewing them, a reply from one person said: "You do realize you've just increased the suicide rate for the year in all of Scandinavia?" .. Paul, from Oslo. Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-21-2004 06:34 PM                     So Scandanavia has alot of porn huh?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-21-2004 08:24 PM                     Mike...you stay away from there. If you come back from your holiday wearing glasses, you know what we'll be thinking, don't you?  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-21-2004 10:31 PM                     John...  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-22-2004 06:55 PM                     And to think open flames happened every single day when smoking was allowed on planes  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-22-2004 07:44 PM                     I wonder if they would have still let him go had he folded the porn picture into a paper airplane and THEN set it on fire, immitating the noise a nose-diving plane makes while it burned... Just a thought. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 09-23-2004 12:08 AM                        (and it never occured to him that tearing up the picture would have practically the same effect, minus the arrest)  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-23-2004 12:24 AM                     why tear up a perfectly good porn picture? oh wait...  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-23-2004 12:26 PM                     quote: Steve Scott And to think open flames happened every single day when smoking was allowed on planes The late John Huntley, British film historian and archivist, had some silent film of an old hydrogen-filled airship. The captain is seen walking around the cabin/gondola, or whatever it's called, greeting his rather posh passengers, while smoking a pipe! Of course, the film stock being used would have been nitrate. Twice in the last year or so the bus I have been travelling to/from work on has had one of its seats set fire to by some schoolgirls sitting at the back. Maybe we should set fire to the schoolgirls; that might solve the problem.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-23-2004 01:23 PM                        I didn't know that John Huntley had died. Was this quite recent? Both the British airship R101 and the Hindenburg contained pressurised smoking rooms, which had to be entered through an airlock. Ironically, both dirigibles were destroyed by fire, but smoking was not to blame in either case. Throughout its year in regular transatlantic service, the Hindenburg regularly carried nitrate film as cargo (the R101 crashed before entering revenue earning service). This was usually developed newsreel rushes from Germany to the US and dupe negs of Hollywood features for European distribution in the other direction. When it finally blew up in May 1937 it is believed to have been carrying the cut separation negatives of the first British Technicolor feature to have the matrices and prints done for the US release. Yet more irony - it was a flying melodrama called Wings of the Morning!  |  IP: Logged

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