Flight cancelled, man detained after throwing coins into plane engine for "good luck"

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I thought it was only fountains. Who knew you could throw coins in just anything for good luck?

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He [the other person that did something like this] was ordered to pay a fine of 1,20,000 yuan (Rs 12.36 lakh) to the budget airline Lucky Air for his actions.

But… but… it’s right there in the name! That’d be a double-positive, it could overflow!

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Wang has a somewhat crippled understanding of how ‘good luck’ would manifest in this scenario.

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Stuff like this really works. I had a crazy ex-girlfriend who once put “good luck” sugar in my gas tank. Next thing you know, I was blessed with a new car engine.

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Ikr? How lucky is Lucky Airlines if he got caught? He should sue for fraud.

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About 18,500 dollars, according to Google. Steeper than I expected, honestly.

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Well, add another thing to the list that I’ve apparently being doing wrong.

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A simple solution–put in a box somewhere for customers to put their coins.

If 7-11 can do it, so can an airline.

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Hopefully, not my proctologist.

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Having a proctologist who wants to get lucky during your appointment seems problematic, no matter what their position is on distribution of wealth.

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This is China, he will never pay such amount.
Just write an appology letter and you are good to go.

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Not the kind of monetary injection I had in mind.

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Sully is displeased.

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I feel like they should have an engine avatar for them to throw coins into for luck. And then - boom - free money! Or donate it to charity.

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Apparently, this is a thing.

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Surprisingly melodic.

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Is there a name for actions that are intended to have one effect but very directly (and obviously) lead to the opposite outcome? I mean, it is ironic, but it seems like a highly specific sub-type of irony here.

Good gods, whyyyy? How can something that’s some obviously a bad idea seem like a good one to people? It’s as absurd as the idea of “lucky poison.”

Very? If he hadn’t been spotted, it likely would have been extremely unlucky for the passengers of that flight, after all…

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Superstitious twats. There is nothing more to say.

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