“Singapore police are questioning a man who threatened to bring down a Qantas flight from Sydney to Singapore.
The man was restrained by flight stewards after he made threats to disrupt QF31 using mind power.
According to ABC reporter Nick Luchinelli, who was onboard the flight, it seemed the middle-aged man was either under the influence of drugs or alcohol or both.
He was suffering some sort of delusion and people sitting close to him said he was threatening to use the power of his mind to bring the flight down.
The stewards had to take the threat seriously so he had his arms and legs cuffed and remained that way for the rest of the flight.
Singaporean police boarded the flight after passengers disembarked.”
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If he really had mind power of that nature, how would restraining his arms & legs help at all?
Pah, kids stuff. Deepak Chopra can cause earthquakes: http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1822
He threatened to use mind power, so they cuffed his arms and legs? Brilliant!
What i love about this story is that the guy said he’d bring the plane down with his mind… so what did they do? Cuffed his arms and legs instead of, oh I dunno just taking him off the flight!!!
This could never work on an aeroplane. He should have tries to Think a Ship!
Perhaps ‘The Medusa Touch’ was the in-flight movie?
it would have made more sense to put 1 annoying song on repeat in his headphones and THEN tie him up so he can’t remove it to see if he can concentrate on bringing the flight down with Vanilla Ice or something playing in his head phones. pft honestly!
How brilliant though…it almost makes him legitimate since he was apprehended
It doesn’t matter, anyway, because Qantas never crashes, Q-Qantas never crashes…
It’s from Rainman, if anyone thinks I’m going crazy!
Oh God, Derren got in to the medicine cabinet and escaped to Singapore again, didn’t he?
let’s have a duel between him & derren!
@scott: I was watching “Men who stare at goats” at the time… does that count?
What was he thinking?
i’d like them to remake The Medusa Touch with this guy playing Burton’s role…
Jess: oh yes indeed it was Derren having one of his funny turns again lmao always happens if he’s had a little too much or had his happy pills or something like… ahahaha
alll jokes aside though (sorry Derren my sweetie
) I realy am!!! sincerely!! that was very appalling I know but funny-ish lol
I honestly think it’s totally barmy that (A) they’d restrain his arms & legs as several of you have said he threatened to use his mind & i don’t believe the mind is in the arms or legs & (B) that they took him seriously at all
mental but mildly amusing