Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health, Especially on an Airplane

This woman is looking to qualify for the Darwin Awards, as she tries to open the door to an airplane to go out and have a cigarette.

A woman drunkenly tried to open a plane’s emergency exit door during a flight so she could have a crafty cigarette.

Sadrine Helene Sellies, 34, took sleeping tablets with alcohol before the take-off because she was terrified of flying.

Magistrates in Brisbane, Australia, placed the French woman on a good behaviour bond after she admitted endangering the safety of an aircraft.

The court heard she had no memory of the incident, which happened on a flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane.

Sellies had been starting a three-week holiday with her husband.

The court heard the defendant had walked toward an exit with an unlit cigarette and a lighter in her hand and began tampering with the door.

A flight attendant took her back to her seat and she was arrested on landing.

Helen Shilton, defending, said as well as the mix of drink and drugs and fear of flying, her client had a history of sleepwalking. via Sky News

It takes all kinds…

Posted on November 23, 2005 by The Travel Blogger

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