Jet forced down by wind
Daily Mail
7th December 2006
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A PLANE was forced to make an emergency landing after a woman passenger lit matches to disguise the scent of flatulence.

The Dallas-bound American Airlines jet was diverted to Nashville after several passengers reported smelling burning sulphur.

All 99 passengers and five crew were taken off and screened while the plane was searched and luggage screened.

The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted striking the matches in an attempt to conceal a 'body odour,' said Lynne Lowrance of Nashville International Airport Authority.

The woman was said to have an unspecified medical condition. The flight took off again but the unidentified woman was not allowed back on the plane. She was not charged in connection with the incident.

I arrest you in the name of the Claus
Daily Mail
7th December 2006
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A MOTHER had her 12-year-old son arrested for theft after he opened his Christmas present three weeks early.

Brand! Ervin called police after finding the boy had repeatedly taken the Nintendo Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house and played with it. Officers in Columbia, South Carolina, handcuffed the youngster and took him to the police station on petty larceny charges.

Mrs Ervin, who picked her son up from the station after church, sald:'Hels been going through life doing things and getting away with it. I'd rather call the police myself than someone else call for him doing something worse than this.'

She said her son had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and was suspended from school last month for trying to hit a police officer there. Juvenile justice officials will decide what happens to him.