I recently went through a class to be certified for bag screening for private charters and the instructor had a few good stories. The one that stood out the most, though:
This was a few years ago on Eastern Airline. They fly DC-9s; the forward cargo bin is heated and pressurized so animals can fly underneath and the aft cargo bin is just pressurized but not heated which is fine for baggage.
On this one particular flight the ramp crew open up the aft bin and the first thing they see is a kennel with a frozen cat inside. Of course, they're swearing because someone's stupid mistake has just killed a cat, and now they're going to have to deal with the owner and hope not to get sued. Instead of going with a direct approach to deal with the owner, they decide to get a little tricky.
They page the woman to the counter and tell her that they can't find her checked baggage and they'll have to call the different stations and look throughout the airport to make sure someone didn't take it by accident. While the woman waits at the counter, clearly distraught by her lack of cat, the baggage manager hightails it to the closest pet store to find a cat that looks similar and isn't an icicle.
Sure enough, he finds a close match and rushes back to the airport, emerging from the backroom and placing the kennel on the counter in front of the woman with an apologetic, "It took some time but we found it."
The woman takes one look at the cat moving around in the kennel and passes out.
Turns out the cat had died before she left and she'd decided to transport the body of the cat in the kennel when she flew home to bury it in her back yard.
I recently went through a class to be certified for bag screening for private charters and the instructor had a few good stories. The one that stood out the most, though:
This was a few years ago on Eastern Airline. They fly DC-9s; the forward cargo bin is heated and pressurized so animals can fly underneath and the aft cargo bin is just pressurized but not heated which is fine for baggage.
On this one particular flight the ramp crew open up the aft bin and the first thing they see is a kennel with a frozen cat inside. Of course, they're swearing because someone's stupid mistake has just killed a cat, and now they're going to have to deal with the owner and hope not to get sued. Instead of going with a direct approach to deal with the owner, they decide to get a little tricky.
They page the woman to the counter and tell her that they can't find her checked baggage and they'll have to call the different stations and look throughout the airport to make sure someone didn't take it by accident. While the woman waits at the counter, clearly distraught by her lack of cat, the baggage manager hightails it to the closest pet store to find a cat that looks similar and isn't an icicle.
Sure enough, he finds a close match and rushes back to the airport, emerging from the backroom and placing the kennel on the counter in front of the woman with an apologetic, "It took some time but we found it."
The woman takes one look at the cat moving around in the kennel and passes out.
Turns out the cat had died before she left and she'd decided to transport the body of the cat in the kennel when she flew home to bury it in her back yard.
It's a great story but I've heard it a bunch of times before.
I think if we're at the point where people are making up stories and posting urban legends, we should close this one and let it rest for a little while.
Yeah, I think it's gotten to the point where this isn't a Strange & Embarrassing Moments thread anymore, but more of a general stories thread with people posting shit abut how they are bad ass and don't take shit from anyone. Giving it a rest wouldn't hurt.
No making stuff up! There must be something real that is strange and embarrassing you can share. Think hard.
So I'm currently on antibiotics for strep throat. I was actually really sick almost 3 weeks ago now, but I didn't go to the doctor even after missing some work figuring I just had a really bad cold or flu virus. Of course thinking I just had the same cold that was going around I didn't really worry about making people sick and infected my gf, so just as I'm starting to get better she starts to get really sick.
She eventually goes to the doctor, gets a swab done and guess what....strep throat.D:
So she is given antibiotics and I'm still sick so I go to a different doctor and get a swab which comes back positive (duh) so I get also antibiotics. But they are different! I ask the pharmacist what's up and she says I've been prescribed this new penicillin because it works better for strep.
Cue 3 days later I'm feeling better and my gf is still sick
And my boss who is about to go on vacation is pissed because he just started getting the symptoms of sore throat (2-5 day incubation period remember!), and he knows exactly who he got it from :?
No making stuff up! There must be something real that is strange and embarrassing you can share. Think hard.
So I'm currently on antibiotics for strep throat. I was actually really sick almost 3 weeks ago now, but I didn't go to the doctor even after missing some work figuring I just had a really bad cold or flu virus. Of course thinking I just had the same cold that was going around I didn't really worry about making people sick and infected my gf, so just as I'm starting to get better she starts to get really sick.
She eventually goes to the doctor, gets a swab done and guess what....strep throat.D:
So she is given antibiotics and I'm still sick so I go to a different doctor and get a swab which comes back positive (duh) so I get also antibiotics. But they are different! I ask the pharmacist what's up and she says I've been prescribed this new penicillin because it works better for strep.
Cue 3 days later I'm feeling better and my gf is still sick
And my boss who is about to go on vacation is pissed because he just started getting the symptoms of sore throat (2-5 day incubation period remember!), and he knows exactly who he got it from :?
That'll teach you to make out with your boss while you're sick.
I submit that while Pony's experiences are pretty fucked up (eating a tub of lard, bashing a china cabinet, and doing unholy things to some girl's stuffed animal most likely) at least he's not playing Soggy Biscuit or whatever the fuck you people are doing. o_O
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I submit that while Pony's experiences are pretty fucked up (eating a tub of lard, bashing a china cabinet, and doing unholy things to some girl's stuffed animal most likely) at least he's not playing Soggy Biscuit or whatever the fuck you people are doing. o_O
assuming you were ever sick enough to play that game........... if you lost, who in the hell would ever eat the damn thing???????????? that part escapes me, could anyone ever be dumb enough to be peer pressured into something as disgusting as that? I don't get you people and your games.
when my crew would get bored or drunk stupid and bored we'd just go our roller blading and laugh at each other falling and shit. Or better yet we'd take our drunk selves and go out in search of women. weirdos
people who make stuff up in this thread make me a sad pony
and it's part of why i stopped posting in it
because really, what's the point then
(that said that aristocrats joke that got reported for awesome was totally fantastic and acceptable but nobody should try to follow that)
Yeah, seriously people, we have enough fucked up stuff happening to us for real, lets not turn this into the Scary shit thread that always turns into people posting stupid fucking dreams.
I met this girl over the internet in high school, she lived across town. We hung out a few times, fooled around a little and had a good time.
I was at her place one night and we ended up fooling around without any clothes on. Well, we hear the garage door start to open and start throwing clothes on. Her mom gets in, we managed to both get dressed in that time and tried to look as innocent as possible. I take off a few minutes later, get home and take off my shoes only to realize I'm wearing bellbottom jeans. Her bellbottom jeans. In our rush to get dressed I threw her pants on and she mine and I wore them around the rest of the night before I got home.
This last Monday my doctor called me at work and told me I have thyroid cancer. As you can imagine I went into distress mode. I left work immediately. My boyfriend took me back to our place and we laid down and he cuddled me as I wept and flipped the fuck out.
We hadn’t had sex in almost two weeks at that point for various reasons. Two weeks is a damn long time to go without sex and we were both easily excitable by even innocent physical contact.
When I finally got a bit more sane I sniffled and sat up on my side a little so we could watch some MacGuyver. As I sat up I felt something… hard.
My boyfriend was sporting a raging boner while I wept about cancer. o_O...
It was one of the first things that really cheered me up and made me laugh. I teased him mercilessly though.
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Yeah, seriously people, we have enough fucked up stuff happening to us for real, lets not turn this into the Scary shit thread that always turns into people posting stupid fucking dreams.
How about we talk about shadow people for 15 or so pages? :P
I was 18, freshly moved out of my house and renting a house with a group of friends and my now wife then girlfriend.
Well New Years Eve rolls around and obviously we need to throw a party. Downside is I'm a Manager/Driver at Pizza Hut and there is no way I'm not working that night. I end up delivering Pizza until 11 and get home somewhere around 11:30. Everyone is already pretty drunk at that point so I do the responsible thing and decide to catch up.
Four or five beers and nearly ten shots later I'm pretty drunk, so again being the mature responsible adult I am, I decide to keep drinking.
Fast forward to the next morning. I wake up in bed and realize three things.
One, I don't have any clothes on.
Two, the room smells like vomit.
Three, I don't remember what caused one or two.
When my wife got up, she filled me in on the details. We went to bed around 3 and decided to have drunk sex. Afterward I rolled out of bed, hit my face on the floor giving me a bloody nose and vomited all over myself and the floor. The wife then stripped me down, cleaned me up and got me back into bed.
I don't care what I say about her, she's alright.
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Rest in peace, S&EM thread. You were a good companion, but I agree we should let it lie for a bit. Let people have some more strange and embarrassing things happen to them so we have good material or when it comes back.
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I liked the work thread that lived and died in G&T way back when. Employee lounge or something. Someone with an interesting job do that here for our entertainment.
So are we really letting this thread die? Congratulations fake story posting people, you killed the thread. Happy?
It's not dying, it's resting. All D&D threads get locked when they hit 100 pages, so it's probably a good idea to let it lie for a little bit since we as a forum seem to be running out of decent material. It will return, as the phoenix rises from the ashes of its parent. But with more poop stories.
Without S&E what will I read? Maybe this is time to revive the horrible things you've done thread and try to keep it a little less celebratory than it became last time it got locked. That thread had plenty of gold in it also.
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How about another Idiots With Cars thread? That went well last time.
I liked the work thread that lived and died in G&T way back when. Employee lounge or something. Someone with an interesting job do that here for our entertainment.
Didn't the Employee Lounge get shut down by the staff because they weren't comfortable with people talking shit about their employers on the boards?
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What about the disturbing/terrifying stories thread? I liked that one.
The "Disturbing/Terrifying" one seemed to turn into the usual copypasta memes about girls dressed like clowns coming to kill you if you didn't post this on six videos.
If you mean the "Horrible things you've done" that got shut down after people started admitting to serious felony offences in-thread.
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What about the disturbing/terrifying stories thread? I liked that one.
The "Disturbing/Terrifying" one seemed to turn into the usual copypasta memes about girls dressed like clowns coming to kill you if you didn't post this on six videos.
If you mean the "Horrible things you've done" that got shut down after people started admitting to serious felony offences in-thread.
I mean the one about the Shack, and that one guy that found that abandoned shack in the woods with all the skeletons in it, that thread. :P
This last Monday my doctor called me at work and told me I have thyroid cancer. As you can imagine I went into distress mode. I left work immediately. My boyfriend took me back to our place and we laid down and he cuddled me as I wept and flipped the fuck out.
We hadn’t had sex in almost two weeks at that point for various reasons. Two weeks is a damn long time to go without sex and we were both easily excitable by even innocent physical contact.
When I finally got a bit more sane I sniffled and sat up on my side a little so we could watch some MacGuyver. As I sat up I felt something… hard.
My boyfriend was sporting a raging boner while I wept about cancer. o_O...
It was one of the first things that really cheered me up and made me laugh. I teased him mercilessly though.
This story fits perfectly with today's comic, somehow. Just something of a completely different subject, and whups, there's a boner!
I'm all for another try at the horrible things thread, there were some real gems in the last one. Maybe the OP can say "don't admit to felonies" or somesuch.
This last Monday my doctor called me at work and told me I have thyroid cancer. As you can imagine I went into distress mode. I left work immediately. My boyfriend took me back to our place and we laid down and he cuddled me as I wept and flipped the fuck out.
We hadn’t had sex in almost two weeks at that point for various reasons. Two weeks is a damn long time to go without sex and we were both easily excitable by even innocent physical contact.
When I finally got a bit more sane I sniffled and sat up on my side a little so we could watch some MacGuyver. As I sat up I felt something… hard.
My boyfriend was sporting a raging boner while I wept about cancer. o_O...
It was one of the first things that really cheered me up and made me laugh. I teased him mercilessly though.
This story fits perfectly with today's comic, somehow. Just something of a completely different subject, and whups, there's a boner!
I just want to clarify (since there is a mixture of fake stories and paranoia going around) that this did happen this week. When it happened one of the first things I said to my boyfriend was “I’m posting this on strange and embarrassing”8-)
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I liked the work thread that lived and died in G&T way back when. Employee lounge or something. Someone with an interesting job do that here for our entertainment.
Didn't the Employee Lounge get shut down by the staff because they weren't comfortable with people talking shit about their employers on the boards?
I'm pretty sure it got shut down because it turned into a chat thread, like this is doing right now, fortunately it's at 100 pages and due for a lock anyway.
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Yep.
Well at least you had the common decency to admit it!
This was a few years ago on Eastern Airline. They fly DC-9s; the forward cargo bin is heated and pressurized so animals can fly underneath and the aft cargo bin is just pressurized but not heated which is fine for baggage.
On this one particular flight the ramp crew open up the aft bin and the first thing they see is a kennel with a frozen cat inside. Of course, they're swearing because someone's stupid mistake has just killed a cat, and now they're going to have to deal with the owner and hope not to get sued. Instead of going with a direct approach to deal with the owner, they decide to get a little tricky.
They page the woman to the counter and tell her that they can't find her checked baggage and they'll have to call the different stations and look throughout the airport to make sure someone didn't take it by accident. While the woman waits at the counter, clearly distraught by her lack of cat, the baggage manager hightails it to the closest pet store to find a cat that looks similar and isn't an icicle.
Sure enough, he finds a close match and rushes back to the airport, emerging from the backroom and placing the kennel on the counter in front of the woman with an apologetic, "It took some time but we found it."
The woman takes one look at the cat moving around in the kennel and passes out.
Turns out the cat had died before she left and she'd decided to transport the body of the cat in the kennel when she flew home to bury it in her back yard.
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It's a great story but I've heard it a bunch of times before.
[EDIT] http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/deadair.asp
and it's part of why i stopped posting in it
because really, what's the point then
(that said that aristocrats joke that got reported for awesome was totally fantastic and acceptable but nobody should try to follow that)
Completely this.
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That's the closest I could find with a quick google search. I like the imagery of holding a cat up to a heater to thaw it out.
So I'm currently on antibiotics for strep throat. I was actually really sick almost 3 weeks ago now, but I didn't go to the doctor even after missing some work figuring I just had a really bad cold or flu virus. Of course thinking I just had the same cold that was going around I didn't really worry about making people sick and infected my gf, so just as I'm starting to get better she starts to get really sick.
She eventually goes to the doctor, gets a swab done and guess what....strep throat.D:
So she is given antibiotics and I'm still sick so I go to a different doctor and get a swab which comes back positive (duh) so I get also antibiotics. But they are different! I ask the pharmacist what's up and she says I've been prescribed this new penicillin because it works better for strep.
Cue 3 days later I'm feeling better and my gf is still sick
And my boss who is about to go on vacation is pissed because he just started getting the symptoms of sore throat (2-5 day incubation period remember!), and he knows exactly who he got it from :?
That'll teach you to make out with your boss while you're sick.
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assuming you were ever sick enough to play that game........... if you lost, who in the hell would ever eat the damn thing???????????? that part escapes me, could anyone ever be dumb enough to be peer pressured into something as disgusting as that? I don't get you people and your games.
when my crew would get bored or drunk stupid and bored we'd just go our roller blading and laugh at each other falling and shit. Or better yet we'd take our drunk selves and go out in search of women. weirdos
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Yeah, seriously people, we have enough fucked up stuff happening to us for real, lets not turn this into the Scary shit thread that always turns into people posting stupid fucking dreams.
I was at her place one night and we ended up fooling around without any clothes on. Well, we hear the garage door start to open and start throwing clothes on. Her mom gets in, we managed to both get dressed in that time and tried to look as innocent as possible. I take off a few minutes later, get home and take off my shoes only to realize I'm wearing bellbottom jeans. Her bellbottom jeans. In our rush to get dressed I threw her pants on and she mine and I wore them around the rest of the night before I got home.
This last Monday my doctor called me at work and told me I have thyroid cancer. As you can imagine I went into distress mode. I left work immediately. My boyfriend took me back to our place and we laid down and he cuddled me as I wept and flipped the fuck out.
We hadn’t had sex in almost two weeks at that point for various reasons. Two weeks is a damn long time to go without sex and we were both easily excitable by even innocent physical contact.
When I finally got a bit more sane I sniffled and sat up on my side a little so we could watch some MacGuyver. As I sat up I felt something… hard.
My boyfriend was sporting a raging boner while I wept about cancer. o_O...
It was one of the first things that really cheered me up and made me laugh. I teased him mercilessly though.
How about we talk about shadow people for 15 or so pages? :P
Well New Years Eve rolls around and obviously we need to throw a party. Downside is I'm a Manager/Driver at Pizza Hut and there is no way I'm not working that night. I end up delivering Pizza until 11 and get home somewhere around 11:30. Everyone is already pretty drunk at that point so I do the responsible thing and decide to catch up.
Four or five beers and nearly ten shots later I'm pretty drunk, so again being the mature responsible adult I am, I decide to keep drinking.
Fast forward to the next morning. I wake up in bed and realize three things.
One, I don't have any clothes on.
Two, the room smells like vomit.
Three, I don't remember what caused one or two.
When my wife got up, she filled me in on the details. We went to bed around 3 and decided to have drunk sex. Afterward I rolled out of bed, hit my face on the floor giving me a bloody nose and vomited all over myself and the floor. The wife then stripped me down, cleaned me up and got me back into bed.
I don't care what I say about her, she's alright.
It's not dying, it's resting. All D&D threads get locked when they hit 100 pages, so it's probably a good idea to let it lie for a little bit since we as a forum seem to be running out of decent material. It will return, as the phoenix rises from the ashes of its parent. But with more poop stories.
Hehe. Poop.
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Didn't the Employee Lounge get shut down by the staff because they weren't comfortable with people talking shit about their employers on the boards?
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Many S&E Stories have doubled as disturbing/terrifying stories for me already
The "Disturbing/Terrifying" one seemed to turn into the usual copypasta memes about girls dressed like clowns coming to kill you if you didn't post this on six videos.
If you mean the "Horrible things you've done" that got shut down after people started admitting to serious felony offences in-thread.
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I mean the one about the Shack, and that one guy that found that abandoned shack in the woods with all the skeletons in it, that thread. :P
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This story fits perfectly with today's comic, somehow. Just something of a completely different subject, and whups, there's a boner!
Maybe it'd be too boring.
I'm all for another try at the horrible things thread, there were some real gems in the last one. Maybe the OP can say "don't admit to felonies" or somesuch.
I just want to clarify (since there is a mixture of fake stories and paranoia going around) that this did happen this week. When it happened one of the first things I said to my boyfriend was “I’m posting this on strange and embarrassing”8-)
I'm pretty sure it got shut down because it turned into a chat thread, like this is doing right now, fortunately it's at 100 pages and due for a lock anyway.