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  1. A Jewish family was booted from a flight over ‘body odor’ — but says anti-Semitism is to blame Lindsey Bever A Michigan couple and their 19-month-old daughter were removed from an American Airlines flight after the airline told them that other passengers and crew members had complained about their body odor. Yossi Adler said he and his wife, Jennie, were heading home from a vacation in Miami on Wednesday night when they were told there was an emergency and they needed to exit the plane. The couple, both 37, had eight other children at home in Southfield, Mich., so Adler said that he and his wife were worried that there may have been an incident involving one of them. Later, he said, when he and his wife stepped off the plane and the airline told them that they had been removed because of a stench, they were “humiliated,” “frustrated” and left wondering about the real reason. “Obviously, there was a reason,” Adler, who is Jewish, said in a phone interview Friday with The Washington Post. “But I think it was an anti-Semitic reason." “Even if it wasn’t,” he added, “they were anti-Semitic afterward.” Nigerian woman kicked off United flight after white man complained she was ‘pungent,’ suit says American Airlines said in a statement that the Adlers were asked to deplane after “multiple passengers, along with our crew members, complained about Mr. Adler’s body odor. Our Miami airport team members were concerned about the comfort of our other passengers due to the odor. Our team members took care of the family and provided hotel accommodations and meals, and rebooked them on a flight to Detroit Thursday morning.” The airline said its employees did not know of Adler’s religion. Adler said the vouchers that American Airlines gave him for food and lodging did not work, so he had to pay out of pocket. The airline said that should not have been the case but that it will look into the matter and ensure any such expenses are reimbursed. In any case, Adler said, had the airline been that concerned about his body odor, it should have given him clean clothes to wear. Instead, he said, he had to wear the same clothes on the flight the next morning because he did not have his belongings. Video showed the Adlers approach a ticket counter Wednesday evening, complaining that the airline had removed them from the plane and then sent their belongings ahead to Detroit. “I’m trying to stay calm here,” Yossi Adler told an employee. “But there’s two Jewish people on the plane, and now they’re kicking us off because of odor. Seriously? Nobody here thinks I have odor. “I need to get on a plane tonight. I have eight children at home.” At one point, after Adler asked airline workers for an explanation for the removal, one of them asked him, “You told me for religious reasons you don’t shower?” “I shower every day!” Adler quickly responded. “I said you kicked me off because of religious reasons.” But some people who said they were also passengers on the flight said that it was not about religion. A person who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity said that he and his girlfriend were also on the plane and that there was indeed a stench. Another woman who claims to have been on the flight took to Twitter to back up American Airline’s claim. “The smell was so bad I don’t think I could have made it through the 2.5 hr flight,” she said. See Barbara C Yavorcik's other Tweets Asked about that claim, Adler said in a text message to The Post that “the ‘BO’ is a fairy tale and cover for the reprehensible discrimination exhibited to myself and the insensitive treatment I and my family received by AA staff. My attorneys will prove that the BO claim is absolute nonsense.” Adler told The Post that he had showered Wednesday morning. Adler described the experience as a “horrible” ordeal, explaining that airline employees were walking around the airport holding their noses and fanning their faces. He said that had there been a legitimate body odor issue, the employees, who have a responsibly in the service industry “to go above and beyond,” should have helped him. “Not once in my life has someone said I smell,” he told The Post. There have been numerous incidents on airplanes in recent years, from issues with service and support animals to problems with passengers who claimed they were removed from flights over a birthday cake, breast-feeding and menstrual cramps, and a seat-kicking toddler. Last year, an African woman was booted from a United Airlines flight after a passenger complained that she had a “pungent” odor. The woman sued for racial discrimination.
  2. APD: Woman arrested in connection with downtown serial stabbings, confessed to attacking 5 women AUSTIN (KXAN) — Police have arrested a woman in connection with multiple stabbings in downtown Austin late Thursday night and into Friday. APD Chief Manley said the woman was transient and that she confessed to attacking five people. In a press conference, Manley said officers were flagged down near East Sixth by a group of women around 11:24 p.m. They found one woman lying on the ground in a pool of blood. The officers observed a large cut to the back of the woman’s head. The women told the officer they were heading downtown and were dropped off by a ride share on Seventh Street. They said as they were walking to Sixth Street they saw a woman walking in the opposite direction. When they passed they said the woman turned and struck their friend in the back of the head. At about 12:07 a.m. in the 500 block of East Sixth Street a woman approached an officer and told him she had just been assaulted. She said she was standing on the side walk when someone walked up and hit her in the back of the head with a solid object. Officers say she had also sustained a large laceration. The victim said she saw her assailant running from the scene and recognized her as a local homeless person who frequently hung around a business she worked in downtown. At that same time, officers were called to the corner of East Sixth Street and Red River Street. At the scene officers found a third woman who had sustained stab wounds in her shoulder and wrist. She said the suspect approached her, told her to be quiet, then attacked her. The Real Time Crime Center used the APD Halo cameras to search the area of the three attacks and was able to find the suspect and track her back to the ARCH where she was taken into custody. Police also found the knife believed to have been used in the attacks. The suspect was identified as Raeshala Morris, 33. Police say she confessed to the attacks but said she attacked five women. Chief Manley said footage was captured from the HALO cameras of one of the unconfirmed assaults. Manley said he wants any other victims who were assaulted in the area to come forward. If anyone has information about what happened or was attacked, they are encouraged to call the APD Aggravated Assault Unit at 512-974-5245. Morris is currently booked into the Travis County Jail. On Friday, Governor Greg Abbott’s Office released a statement on the incidents, saying:
  3. houston wouldn't be houston without some poor uncle bob getting blowed the fuck up a couple of times a year.
  4. I road my bike today for 3 hours today with a 3M N 95 mask. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-Particulate-Respirator-8210V-N95-80-EA-Case/?N=5002385+3294752926&rt=rud Seemed to work so far. I don’t feel like I have the flu like I did after my last ride with cedar tree spunk in the air.
  5. I switched out the nozzle today on a Kohler seat we just had installed. Like a dumbass, I grabbed the handle to test out the new nozzle and shot water high in the air directly on my shirt and and pants.
  6. A beat down is often the only thing that's going to correct bad behavior like talking at the movie theater.
  7. which one of you lost your toy box and grill? https://twitter.com/MollyAndAMic/status/1217257111379423232
  8. I learned the hard way that all dressers should be bolted and secured about ten years ago. We had a new short 3 drawer dresser delivered from Pottery Barn for one of the kid’s rooms. Our daughter and one of our sons, 3 & 6 at the time, pulled all the drawers out and tried to use the drawers as a ladder. The dresser toppled over and trapped both kids while I was downstairs. When they started screaming bloody murder, I ran upstairs to find both kids pinned. Luckily, neither kid was injured. We had every dresser in the house bolted to the wall the next day.
  9. Dylan Woodburn https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/dylan-woodburn/
  10. Amazon just fucked me and didn't even use Amazon Basics Lube. I ordered 3x Apple Airpods Pro for my kids that were supposed to be shipped Prime to be delivered on Monday. Just got the tracking with a January 3 ETA. my wife is going to rip me a new one.
  11. I am guessing that your HOA is wanting you to pay for an Amended Plat or re-subdivision, not just a survey. The peoples republic of austin is charging almost $7000 for an amended plat.
  12. i only bought the orbi to try and take my kids offline at 10PM. didn't know the parental controls were another third party subscription.
  13. My Orbi wifi router is worse than the Grande wifi that's built into the modem. Frequently have to reboot. The parental controls that I specifically purchase the orbi for require a third party subscription from Disney. Would pass if i had to do this purchase again.
  14. “My thoughts on tonight's episode of @survivorcbs and Dan Spilo's removal for another incident of inappropriate touching. #Survivor39” https://mobile.twitter.com/kellee_kim/status/1204949876464742400
  15. Austin students want professor fired for writings on age of consent; UT says it’s protected speech For weeks, University of Texas students have been protesting against and asking school leaders to fire professors with histories of sexual misconduct. Now, a group of students is calling for the removal of another faculty member they say is promoting harmful ideas about the age of consent and sexual relations with minors. Thomas K. Hubbard, a professor of classics in UT's College of Liberal Arts, has written extensively on relationships between adolescent boys and adult men, often using classic literature's depictions of homosexual relationships to suggest changing age of consent laws and challenging modern norms about youth sexuality. But some students say he has used his position as a UT professor to further a culture that hurts young boys. In his academic writing, Hubbard describes physical relationships between men and young boys in ancient times as "proper learning experiences." In one 2010 article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Thymos: Boyhood Studies, Hubbard examines sexual consent among adolescent males in antiquity, asking, "What can we learn from the Greeks?" "Contemporary American legislation premised on children's incapacity to 'consent' to sexual relations stems from outmoded gender constructions and ideological preoccupations of the late Victorian and Progressive Era," Hubbard writes. "We should consider a different 'age of consent' for boys and girls." In the same publication, Hubbard called age of consent laws a "sad by-product" of a "naive and self-righteous era" and compared them to prohibition. Hubbard rebukes the idea he writes about pedophilia. Instead, he says, he discusses the phenomenon of "pederasty," which he described as the romantic courtship of adolescent males, usually 14 years or older with older men. "How teen sexuality should be regulated and how legal violations should be punished are legitimate areas of research and debate among scholars and public policy professionals. Historical and cross-cultural evidence have a place in such discussions," he said in an emailed statement.
  16. I don’t believe that Dan knows that he was picked to be a heal. I believe that the producers picked Dan intentionally because of his ignorance of transgressions . I was also surprised that he has a wife and kids. I thought he was due for a coming out story line.
  17. Dan Spilo was likely cast as a heal intentionally by Survivor producers who already knew him from the industry. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2158373/
  18. looks like Rogers was in a death spiral for a long time. video below was from 2017.
  19. i had to ride my bicycle down s congress yesterday to the toyota dealer off s i35. had a zombie looking homeless fucker wearing a hoodie come at me with its hands in the air in the bike lane that had me thinking we were about to throw hands. got to the overpass at ben white and congress and the bbq pit crew were still camped out there.
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