Originally published at: Maskless influencers who partied on a plane to Mexico are now stuck, as airlines won't fly them home | Boing Boing
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Maskless influencers who partied on a plane to Mexico are now stuck, as airlines won't fly them home
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They fucked around. Then they found out.
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Influencers, huh? Let’s hope the predicament influences followers to NOT follow suit.
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A true test if you are indeed an “Influencer”.
You are stuck in Mexico, can you get home?
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This is why parents concerned about their children’s shenanigans rarely say “that kid is a good influence.”
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On the bright side, it’s not like they have jobs or important appointments to get back to.
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Some can get through life being stupid. Some can get through life being arseholes. “Influencers”, being both, are in for a rougher time.
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Ah, to believe that you are young and invulnerable. I miss that, but not much.
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That is going to be one expensive Uber.
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Flight of the Damned Influencers.
It sounds like the “organizer” is unused to dealing with consequences.
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It could be worse. They could have gone to Cozumel. (Which is a very nice place, but hard to drive home from.)
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The passengers — who Trudeau described as “a gang de sans-desseins” (purposeless or clueless people)
Yoinking that phrase.
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Do influencers have thumbs? When I was a younger man I had a good friend that hitchhiked from Washington DC to Alaska and back. Mexico to Canada sounds doable for someone with a lot of influence. And you probably won’t need to wear a mask.
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I would say “good”, except now they’re just Mexico’s problem instead of Canada’s problem.
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They do, but they’re worn out from tapping and swiping their phone screens for 16+ hours out of every day.
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Sounds like the person who put this little party together doesn’t know what he’s doing.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airline-passengers-partying-canada-sunwing/index.html
According to Awad’s statement, the sticking point in his negotiations with the airline about the return flight was in-flight meal service.
He said he agreed to no alcohol service on board, passengers boarding “in a sober condition” and a number of other terms.
“We couldn’t conclude an agreement because Sunwing refused to provide meals to the group for a five-hour flight,” Awad’s statement reads.
No food for 5 hours? Whaa! Cry me a f*cking river.
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I’ll bet I can guess which political ideology he subscribes to. I’d bet on his favourite book, too, but he doesn’t strike me as much of a reader.
Not to worry, though. If he can’t head up Fyre Festival 2.0 he has a bright future over at Cryptoland.
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My guess is that the airline worried that the passengers who took their masks off to eat would “forget” to put them back on.
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