Only in LA.....

[slick]

Naked bid to fly Down Under
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Posted: 6:44 PM EST (2344 GMT)



LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet, officials said on Wednesday.

Pilots of the Qantas Airways flight stopped the plane. The man was coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing, said airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles.

"This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do. If he had continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at over 200 miles (320 kph) per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up by an engine," she said.

"If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism. And if not he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour flight at 30,000 feet (9,150 metres) while wearing no clothes."

The man, Neil Melly, 31, tried to buy a one-way ticket on the Qantas flight on Monday evening, but was turned down because he could not supply a valid credit card, Castles said.

Later, he managed to climb over an airport fence, topped by three strands of barbed wire, without injury and was spotted by a ramp worker "running, naked, full-speed" toward the plane.

Castles said a check by authorities found that Melly had been reported missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was suffering from bi-polar disorder, a manic-depressive illness.
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....and I thought trying to convert a lion was foolhardy.....

[DJFyrewolf36]

Sounds like he is in need of serious help!

[trayi52]

OMG, very serious help!!

Willie

[Corinna]

Heard this as I was waking up unbeleivable.

[RICHARD]

YES!!!!!!

We hadn't been in the news for a few weeks.....


I want to know how he got over the fence without scratching 'himself'...

[LKPike]

hmm did anyone see him actually climbing over the barbed wire? If not I'm willing to bet he just found/created a hole in the fence. (or he could just have thick skin...)

[lbaker]

I think this says more about those "wacky Canuks" than it does about LA just kidding Slick (sorta)

[Miranda_Rae]

Whoa! What a total idiot. He needs some help.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by lbaker
I think this says more about those "wacky Canuks" than it does about LA just kidding Slick (sorta)

You weren't there to pick up Slick for the BBQ ....We spy a woman wandering around, looking lost.....

Gini leaned over to whisper in my ear, something like......

"Slick wouldn't do that to us..."


Then picture a woman with cat ears, black glasses, giant nose, Chaplin 'stache and a cat tail wandering the concourse at LAX..

As we watched the "cat woman" wander, we were watching the people around her...just in case the "CW" wasn't Slick....

People just waltzed right by her..... NO ONE PAYED ANY ATTENTION TO HER!!!!!


Soooooooooo, that just proves that a nude, bipolar, manic depressive gent trying to stuff himself into a wheel well isn't anything to get excited about..

Lost Angeles has that effect on people........

[lbaker]

OH RICHARD YOU JUST HAD ME SPITTING MY SOUP ALL OVER THE KEYBOARD, I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD!!!

[gini]

I have to jump in here and back up Richard.

Yup, there we were - looking for this lovely lady from Canada.

And there was this woman with this HUGE NOSE and BLACK GLASSES and LONG tail swishing around the airport. I spotted her and then so did Richard.

I just groaned..............SO THIS IS WHAT MY WEEKEND WAS GOING TO BE LIKE????? And it was only Thursday night!!!

We approached the woman tentatively with a sign..........that said WELCOME SLICK! She just smiled and swatted the hell out of Richard with her tail..........................it could only be SLICK!

But then again, maybe we just picked up the wrong woman and she went along for the ride. It's like that here in L.A.

Believe me.......we could all have done the cat dance in the middle of the international terminal and no one would have noticed!!

The nude guy jumping the fence? Running to catch his plane???
Well they caught him and will give him some help.

Kinda like what we did for Slick.........we tucked in her tail and got her the heck out of the airport fast.............went to her hotel bar and got help for all of us

[QueenScoopalot]

Yup...another person in dire need of psychological help! ROFLMAO at visions of Slick skulking around the airport perimeter in a cat suit!

[Killearn Kitties]

You don't have to rely on visions. I seem to remember photographic evidence! (BBQ thread)