The British Business Owners On The Brink Of Ping-Demonium

Factories are now on the verge of closing and small businesses have now been forced to shut because so many workers are having to self isolate across Britain in the pandemic.

Almost 900,000 alerts telling people to quarantine were announced in the first week of this month alone after contact with a coronavirus victim.

It’s causing anarchy for families and firms, prompting business leaders to demand changes on the NHS COVID 19 app to circumvent a self-inflicted economic wound.

In retail and hospitality, a third of staff are self-isolating in the worst-hit regions, forcing thousands of venues to close.

People are pinged by the app and told to self isolate for ten days after coming into contact with an infected person.

There’s no legal obligation to self isolate if pinged by the app, however, it’s illegal to disobey an order to self isolate in a phone call from NHS Test and Trace.

Plans to make the NHS COVID app less sensitive, meaning fewer people would be pinged, have been delayed as concerns mount over increasing infection rates, and businesses around Britain have been revealing the problems caused by the pingdemic.

The boss of a brain tumour charity in West Yorkshire told a newspaper outlet how the pingdemic was causing the organisation a real problem.

Marie Peacock, chief executive at Yorkshire’s Brain Tumour Charity in Leeds, said that their fundraising revenue had been decimated and they were just beginning to see some possibilities to begin to bring in the money they need to keep their support going and that the pings are going bonkers.

She said the charity was attending the Great Yorkshire Show over four days, but lost half of their planned staff and volunteer cover due to self-isolation, even though they were testing every day and were showing no signs of symptoms.

Marie Peacock added that she’d moved work and resources around, closed their charity shop and tried to cover the best way imaginable, but that it was costing the charity additional time and money that they could ill afford, but that she would support and encourage her team to follow the advice, but had to admit the app had been removed from her phone.

An HR and training consultant blasted the Test and Trace system as woefully inadequate, saying that for numerous small businesses, particularly in hospitality, events and retail areas, it was crippling.

Every week businesses are at risk, and people must understand that this entire deception has nothing to do with a pandemic and that the government’s of the world are conspiring to slaughter the economy and bring in the Totalitarian Reset they all keep talking about, and it’s going to wreck our lives and livelihoods – this concerns all of us.

Of course, the solution is simple, don’t download the app, and if people do keep using the app, that will be what brings the country back to its knees again, and if you have the app, then you’re the problem.

This app is causing chaos and must be removed immediately.

The vulnerable have all been vaccinated and the rest of us should just carry on as normal because people’s livelihoods are at stake here and far more pressing things will probably happen to them compared to this virus, which most of us can’t even tell we have.

About £35 million was spent on this app. You could buy an entire battle fleet for the Royal Navy, but we’re supposed to believe this money was all spent on a small crew of soy latte hipster coders working in a shed, and the only reason this app is pinging everyone in the country is that whoever took the money is trying to make out it does something, and they would rather slaughter the country than it is found out how much was stolen.

Boris Johnson Supports Proposals For A New Tax To Cover Social Care Reforms

Boris Johnson is preparing to announce a cap on the amount people have to pay for their care as soon as next week.

Number 10 and the Treasury are said to be putting the final touches to a deal to fix the social care crisis.

The Prime Minister is understood to be keen to publish reforms before the second anniversary of his admission into Downing Street on July 24, when he first pledged to bring forward plans.

Last night it was claimed that Downing Street was contemplating introducing a new tax to pay for the reforms.

A newspaper outlet reported that No 10 was comfortable with imposing an additional tax on families.

However, senior Tories fear it would break the party’s manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, National Insurance or VAT.

It could mean a separate social care levy on income, or an added amount that only the over 40s would have to pay.

Caroline Abrahams of Age UK said that if a reliable package of social care refinancing and reform needed a tax increase, then so be it, given that it’s fair.

Following a speech, Boris Johnson said people would see his social care plans before too long.

The reforms, intended to prevent people from being landed with sky-high care bills, which forced them to sell their homes, are considered to be based on those first put forward by Sir Andrew Dilnot just over a decade ago.

Sir Andrew Dilnot proposes that there should be a lifetime cap on care costs set at £50,000, after which the state would step in to pay.

One senior Tory said the Prime Minister refers to Sir Andrew Dilnot’s proposals as his plan, but the Treasury, concerned about the £10 billion cost of the reforms, has been arguing for the cap to be placed at a somewhat higher level.

It’s understood that Boris Johnson is personally pushing for the social care package to be nailed down in the coming days as the second anniversary of his promise to fix the crisis approaches.

And he told colleagues that he wants to use his 80 strong majority to find a lasting settlement that will smash the problem for a generation.

Sources initially played down the possibility of a breakthrough, but following further discussions, optimism was mounting that a settlement might eventually be struck.

Tax, tax and more tax, that’s all we’re hearing from this Government these days, aside from the usual COVID threats, of course, along with all their green agenda policies.

And it’s this Etonian motto, tax the serfs to pay for the regalia they own.

The middle rich will become poor, the poor will become non-existent, so it’s not worth working these days as you’re simply giving your wages away to your masters, and you’re working in servitude for the likes of Boris Johnson, and now you’ll be paying through this new tax, it doesn’t matter which arm of the government it’s funnelled through, and denial doesn’t solve the problem.

In another article Boris Johnson was cited as saying that he wasn’t drawn to the idea of additional taxes on hardworking people – one day he’ll decide precisely what he does stand for, or maybe he just needs more advisors to make that choice for him.

This is a man who said no new taxes or tax rises, but he appears to now be threatening the opposite every day, which means that his manifesto was just more lies by a perpetual deceiver.

History Brought Back To Life

Henry VIII was one of the most fascinating figures in English history. Tall, good-looking, charismatic and intelligent, a fine musician and a magnificent sportsman, he was also grasping, unpredictable, suspicious and cruel.

He began his reign as the striking picture of gallant valour, but he ended up as a bloated, stinking whale, despised and feared across the land, but in his determination to protect his Tudor line, Henry changed England in ways that still reverberate today.

Succeeding his father in 1509, Henry ruled during one of the most revolutionary periods in European history, the Reformation, when radical intellectuals were testing the grasp of the Roman Catholic Church.

At first, Henry treated the new ideas with mistrust. The new books were burned in public and revolutionaries against the Catholic Church, who were nicknamed Protestants, were hauled to their deaths.

But then events took an unpredictable twist. The great religious debates of the day became tangled up with Henry’s tortured love life, and then everything changed.

Henry’s father had acquired the crown on the battlefield after years of civil war. So for Henry, nothing was more important than keeping his family’s grip on the throne.

To do that he needed a son, as no woman had ever ruled England unchallenged, and in his desperation, he worked his way through not one or two wives, or even three or four, but a record-breaking six.

As Henry’s wives came and went, from Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour to Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, England changed with them.

The only way Henry could get rid of his first wife was by severing the link with Roman Catholicism and setting up a new Church of England, with himself at its head.

It was a huge moment in England’s history. For the first time, Englishmen came to think of themselves as a nation apart, separate from Europe, chosen by God to fight for freedom.

More than any other king in our history, Henry really did make a difference, as well as his six wives, whose names have gone down in history, but when it comes down to it, he was an overweight leader with numerous wives, lots of children and a lack of morality – he was born into privilege, aggressive and a narcissistic fool, and thank God people like this don’t lead our wonderful country today.

And I never could understand the romancing of Henry the VIII. He was believed to have had over 57,000 to 72,000 people executed during his reign, although that’s likely to be an exaggeration, but he wasn’t a nice man and was the ultimate dictator.

But what a wonderful and captivating history, and perhaps the descendants of those should ask for reparations.

All royals married not because of love but for strategic purposes, and in Henry’s reign he married so he could have a son to carry on the Tudor bloodline, and some royals still do this today, and all of Henry’s wives were condemned for their lack of giving him a male successor, where we now know that the only person to blame was Henry himself, because clearly, he had a lot of X chromosomes instead of Y ones.

But the life of England’s King VIII is a royal enigma. He was a lusty womaniser who married six times and canoodled with innumerable ladies in waiting in a time before reliable birth control, although he only fathered four children who survived childhood.

He was handsome, robust and relatively benevolent in the early years of his reign, but he ballooned into an ailing 300-pound dictator whose capriciousness and paranoia sent many heads rolling, including those of his two wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

New Green Taxes Planned For Cars And Flights

Green taxes on cars and planes are expected to be introduced as part of the Government’s delayed Transport Decarbonisation Plan.

A prohibition on selling HGVs by 2040, cheaper public transportation and more electric vehicle charging points are also under deliberation.

Documents published by the Department for Transport reveal how ministers intend to move to more green-friendly modes of travel, including helping drivers shift from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric ones.

Further carbon pricing for flights could be introduced while a road pricing scheme could offset the expected loss of fuel duty from electric vehicles.

The Government will also need to ensure that revenue from motoring taxes keep pace with the switch to electric.

Mike Hawes, head of industry body The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the sector welcomes the blueprint, but added huge investment, not least in infrastructure, was necessary and must be delivered at an accelerated pace.

The plan pledges to reconsider carbon prices to further expedite the shift to green fuels, which could see airfares increase.

Unveiling the plan in the Commons, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said his green print was a comprehensive yet urgent strategy to end transport’s contribution to climate change within the next three decades.

In November, the Prime Minister brought forward the embargo on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 to 2030, but while China contaminates without recourse, the West will punish its subjects with taxes on everything.

And now the wokey dokey Marxist Tories are going to tax you until the peeps squeak, and just wait till we see the level they set Electric Car Charging Tax at per kilowatt because there will be one, you can guarantee it – they’re just keeping shtum about it so they can con people into buying them before they have no choice.

And how will we be moving large quantities of food and goods to supermarkets when HGVs have been outlawed?

Will we use lots of cyclists all in huge assemblages, moving up the motorway, carrying all this stuff?

What about refrigerated produce and dangerous chemicals?

These nutcases are hurrying green in without even considering the logistics, let alone the enormous costs of alternative transport, but then again we do have a government of lunatics.

But perhaps they’re counting on most of us not being around by then, or maybe they’ve got it covered, and Deliveroo has been awarded the contract to be the replacement – you didn’t seriously think those heavy backpacks were just too deliver Cod and Chips, did you?

This government and other governments alike are truly heinous with bans on conventional vehicles by 2030, new gas boilers outlawed by 2025, with very expensive heat pump alternatives, food taxes, green taxes, smart motorway expansion, electric scooters, and cycle lane chaos, and people are getting sick to the back teeth with Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps, but it really wouldn’t matter who was Prime Minister or who was in government, it’s all set in stone now, and it’s been set in stone for a long time, very gradually and deliberately so that people didn’t notice too much.

And some of it might look pretty good to some people, you know, the ones that are sheeple, but Tory donors and their other pals will make more money from all this, while they impose huge taxes, which are deemed to be all for the benefit of the environment, but the environment won’t improve because green-ism is just another way to steal the earnings of working people and make the rich even richer.

Tax Plan For Sweet And Salty Snacks

A snack tax on sugary and salty food will be recommended by Boris Johnson’s food tsar.

According to sources, restaurateur Henry Dimbleby will put forward the proposals as part of a National Food Strategy aimed at improving the nation’s well-being.

The Government commissioned review is expected to include plans to expand the current sugar tax on sweet drinks and bring in a new salt tax on high sodium foods.

Henry Dimbleby is also expected to recommend an expansion of free school meals and is likely to criticise the UK’s recent trade deal with Australia, putting him on a collision course with ministers.

However, the plan doesn’t include plans for a tax on red meat, which the Prime Minister has ruled out.

Henry Dimbleby, the millionaire founder of fast-food chain Leon, will make his recommendations in an independent report.

Ministers plan to respond in a White Paper in six months but sources warned that none of the recommendations were set in stone.

The snack tax is designed to encourage manufacturers to cut the amount of sugar and salt in their products and could apply to foods such as sausages, bacon, burgers and crisps.

Fizzy drinks have been subject to a sugar tax of 18p per litre since 2018, but Henry Dimbleby is expected to call for this to go further.

The review is expected to suggest a drop in the amount of red meat consumed as part of a healthy diet but won’t recommend a tax on it.

Mr Dimbleby was reported to have warned that people may have to pay a meat tax to help save the planet, even though it could cause riots, and he was said to have argued that a levy on burgers, steaks, ham and sausages may be necessary in the long term, but he ruled against an immediate introduction because of the uproar it would create in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Boris Johnson has unveiled proposals to cut greenhouse emissions by almost four-fifths in a decade, which would require cutting meat and dairy consumption by a fifth.

The average meat consumption stands at 70g a day, according to the NHS, so reducing this by a fifth would equal 56g, comparable to the weight of a chicken breast. Mr Dimbleby is also likely to renew his call for an expansion of free school meals to all under 16s with parents on universal credit.

But what will it be next, the air that we breathe? Perhaps we shouldn’t give them ideas, although I’m certain they’ve thought of that already.

The truth is that the government just want to make more money, and they will make any reason up to justify it, and let’s face it, most treats have been ruined anyhow with artificial sweeteners, cheaper ingredients and smaller sizes.

The extra tax on things is not needed because food manufacturers only have to do simple adjustments to the ingredients of foods, reduce the amount of salt per gram of food and take it below the recommended legal limit and then there would be no need for a sweet and salt tax, but of course, that won’t be done because it’s all about making money and lots of it.

The government doesn’t give a damn about your well-being, all they care about is lining their own pockets, and of course, Boris Johnson won’t put a tax on red meat, that’s because he sits in lavish establishments consuming it. I mean, let’s face it, he could do with losing a few pounds, sorry I meant stone!

SNP At The Centre Of A Criminal Fraud Inquiry

The Scottish National Party is at the centre of a criminal fraud probe amid claims cash given to a £600,000 fundraising drive has gone missing.

Police Scotland said the investigation centred on seven complaints about contributions and had been launched after consultation with prosecutors.

Detectives are looking at allegations that money that was reserved for campaigning for a second independence referendum had been diverted elsewhere.

The Tories voiced concern over the increasingly sad affair which could see police questioning senior people in the SNP.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell is the chief executive of the party.

The inquiry follows a string of resignations from the SNP’s ruling body in a dispute over the transparency of the party’s accounts.

The Scottish Tory chief whip Stephen Kerr said that the SNP had failed to be completely honest over this funding for months.

He said that senior figures had resigned from the party’s executive committee over the matter but the SNP leadership had still not addressed those pressing claims, and that the public deserved to know the truth, and that it was only right that Police Scotland was stepping up their inquiries having received many complaints.

And he said that the police must be allowed to examine every aspect of those complaints to ensure they get to the bottom of this increasingly murky situation.

Since 2017, the SNP has used fundraising websites to raise more than £660,000 to be used for the specific purpose of a referendum drive, but in its most recent accounts, the SNP had only £96,000 in the bank at the end of 2019.

That led to some independence supporters contacting police, accusing the party of behaving fraudulently, but Nicola Sturgeon has previously denied that any money had gone missing, saying the party’s finances had been independently audited.

Two SNP MPs quit the ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) in May, citing a lack of clarity from the party.

At that point, Police Scotland said it was assessing a fraud allegation relating to £600,000 of funds to decide if an inquiry was needed.

A spokesperson said that Police Scotland had now received seven complaints about donations that were made to the Scottish National Party and that after assessment and consultation with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Services, they will now carry out an investigation, and that inquiries were continuing and anyone who has any information which may help with their investigation is urged to contact police.

Hopefully, the police will delve deep and get to the root of it all.

Perhaps Nicola Sturgeon just forgot where she put the £600,000 or was the money just resting in her account?

And their own people have quit because they were denied access to data to find the truth, and this is the party in government in Scotland taking the moral high ground, and we’re seeing every day the sidestepping of issues by them diverting from giving answers and doing the job they were elected to do.

It’s good that they’re having this inquiry, but it probably won’t come to anything, and they will delay any papers the police want until they’ve fixed things.

It’s just all jiggery-pokery with the books. The books show the money’s not there, but Nicola Sturgeon said that she’s not concerned over the matter – Peter’s probably got it hidden under his bed in the spare room, and it beggars belief quite frankly, and every politician has a Pandora’s Box, perhaps it’s time hers was opened.

High Potency Weed Causes ‘Scromiting’ Epidemic

Emergency Room doctors throughout the country have noticed a surge in young marijuana users having psychotic episodes and vomiting uncontrollably, due to the very high levels of THC.

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, now known by doctors as ‘scromiting’, a mash-up of the words screaming and vomiting has become a more prevalent diagnosis at hospitals in Colorado, which first legalised weed for recreational purposes in 2012.

Just three years earlier, the ER at Parkview Medical Centre in Pueblo reported five scromiting cases, but by 2018, six years after marijuana was legalised, the ER surveyed 120 cases, an increase of 230 per cent in only nine years.

According to NBC News, reports of the syndrome have also increased in two different ERs in Colorado soon after weed became legal.

Researchers suggest that for those who begin smoking at a young age, scromiting is more widespread amongst daily marijuana users.

A 2017 study, for instance, discovered that 97 per cent of those who developed the condition reported using marijuana at least once a week.

It also revealed the median age of patients with Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) who started smoking was 16, the median age of symptom onset was 24, but the condition is further becoming more prevalent as the marijuana industry increases the amount of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient, in its product.

Experts said marijuana consumed 20 years ago contained about 2 to 3 per cent THC, but the cannabis sold in markets like Colorado can have THC levels as high as 90 per cent.

The market is also being overwhelmed with concentrates, made with high levels of THC and other substances, and according to NBC, concentrates made up 43 per cent of Colorado’s $2 billion cannabis market in 2020, up from 32 per cent in 2019.

Consuming anything with more than 10 per cent, however, can raise the chances of a psychotic break, and according to a 2019 study, it also said that daily cannabis used was associated with increased odds of having a psychotic disorder.

The study said that the odds increase almost five times if the daily user is smoking high potency weed. Noting that if high potency weed were no longer available 12.2 per cent of psychiatric cases could be prevented across the 11 sites they studied, increasing to 33 per cent in London and 50 per cent in Amsterdam.

Dr G Sam Wang, an emergency room doctor and toxicologist at the Children’s Hospital in Denver told NBC News that evidence for how cannabis, particularly in larger concentrations, affects mental health and is becoming stronger, especially on how it relates to psychosis and schizophrenia-like symptoms.

But the problem here is that it appears that the legal strains are far more potent than the illegal ones, and they’re the reason more episodes are occurring now, and it seems that those who’ve scromited did so on legally bought stuff after smoking for years without incident.

But really folks, ‘scromiting’, why didn’t they say screaming and vomiting? It sounds more like a Hogwarts game, and I still believe that alcohol is much riskier, but then nobody should be doing drugs until they’re old enough to make an informed decision, and children should definitely not be permitted to smoke maryjane anyhow.

But now they’re saying that marijuana is bad for you because of this scromiting, but numerous people have smoked weed for decades and their brain function is just fine, and many have been in full-time employment, bought properties and paid their taxes, and I’m sure that lots of times people have vomited from alcohol, but weed, well I’m not sure about that! Perhaps from having the munchies and eating too much, but some people have been smoking weed for over 35 years and have never been sick, but what do they know?

Outrage As A Boy, 10, Is Asked To Leave Chicago Park

A young boy with spinal muscular atrophy was asked to leave a Chicago park after a security guard raised concerns that his wheelchair posed a danger to other children.

Jordan Block, 10, was visiting Crown Fountain at Millennium Park after a doctor’s appointment when the guard approached his mother and ordered them to leave.

Jordan Block’s mother, Megan Block told CBS 2 that he’d had his wheelchair since he was 2 years old and that the guard said that if other children ran into Jordan, that could create problems for them.

Megan Block said she and Jordan often take trips to the fountain from their home in Warrenville and have never had a problem before.

Recounting the event, Jordan said he was shocked by the guard’s remarks, adding that he’d been there before and have been able to do it.

Jordan said that because of his wheelchair limitations, visiting the park is one of the few activities he thoroughly enjoys, especially on a warm summer day. He said, there’s not much else he can do, and that was something he could do and that was fun for him.

Jordan’s mother said that the incident created a different problem and provided her son with a lesson she wanted him to understand, and she said that this was unacceptable because he was able to do this, it was perfect for him, but now they were being told No!

Jordan’s mother further displayed her disappointment in a July 6 Facebook post, writing that her son was unable to cool down on a 90-degree day because driving a wheelchair wasn’t permitted, and she said: ‘How about not EXCLUDING DISABLED CHILDREN FROM THINGS, watching your own kids and making sure they don’t run into my child who knows how to drive his chair,’ Block wrote. ‘Thank you Chicago for making my son cry today.’

Jordan said he felt excluded and decided to go into the fountain regardless. He said he wasn’t hurt and neither was anyone else.

According to Millennial Park’s website, the fountain is wheelchair friendly and designed without edges or deep water areas so that individuals in wheelchairs can easily access the fountain area and participate with full inclusion.

The website also states there are no restrictions for where wheelchairs are allowed inside the park.

This is so wrong, and wrong that this guard had to disparage this lad, but it appears that some people have lost the capacity to think, let alone have some sort of empathy, and it seems that critical thinking and common sense are in short supply these days.

But this guard is obviously an unschooled untrained rental cop and he should move along to another job because clearly, this one wasn’t his calling, and this guard was guilty of discrimination and violating the Americans With Disabilities Act, not to mention his total lack of decency and compassion.

And I’m not one for cancelling people out, but you just don’t do that to a child. Life is challenging enough, and this particular guard should be dismissed, and the park should give an apology and also be throwing a party for the children, and children with disabilities.

This was awful, and we should never forget, that a wheelchair is open to all, and any person might join it one day.

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke Is Forced Into Grovelling Climbdown

A Tory backbencher was forced to backtrack after a horrific own goal-attack on England player Marcus Rashford over his missed Euro 2020 penalty.

Dover MP Natalie Elphicke suggested the Manchester United player should have practiced spot-kicks instead of campaigning for free meals for deprived schoolchildren during the lockdown.

She commented on a Tory MP WhatsApp group after the Three Lions’ Euro 2020 defeat on penalties to Italy at Wembly.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford was one of the three England players to miss in the deciding shoot out in the Three Lions’ first major final in 55 years.

In a message first reported by GB News, Natalie Elphicke told other Tories that they lost, and wouldn’t it be ungenerous to suggest Marcus Rashford should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics.

But after her remarks were leaked and widely criticised she took to Twitter to heap adoration on the team, and she said that she shared the disappointment and heartbreak of millions of England supporters.

She said that the team gave their all and praised them and onwards to the World Cup.

Labour’s Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols responded, saying that when Natalie Elphicke has fed as many hungry children as Marcus Rashford, or done as much to inspire the nation, then she could slag him off all she liked, but until then, she should pipe down and wind her neck in.

Greater Manchester MP Barbara Keeley added: ‘Marcus Rashford campaigned for millions of children last year ensuring they were not left hungry by this Tory Government during the pandemic.

She said that he’s a great ambassador for our country on and off the pitch and that the people in Greater Manchester and across the country were extremely proud of him.

One Tory MP told a newspaper outlet there were around 200 MPs on the group Ms Elphicke posted to, and they said it might have been something that numerous people might have been thinking, but probably was best not to go there, and that it was rather disheartening that we couldn’t have discussions amongst ourselves.

Ms Elphicke, a 50-year-old mother of two, has been MP for Dover since 2019 when she succeeded her now ex-husband Charlie, who was imprisoned for three sex crimes on two women.

But what a couple Natalie and Charlie are, detached from reality and far too full of their own importance, and this is another dog s**t level of a politician who we have in this country, who doesn’t even have the courage of her convictions, and she should be working at politics not playing at them. Marcus Rashford put food on children’s tables, but the Tories would have loved to have taken them off, and perhaps if the government took care of the country like they’re supposed to then Marcus Rashford wouldn’t have to.

Marcus Rashford did more to improve the quality of life for others in this country than Natalie Elphicke has done in her time as an MP, and shame on her for her reckless remarks.

It’s a little like writing an email, walking away and returning to it later to see if you still want to send it – she should have kept her trap shut, but is this ever going to end, and can’t we for one moment just leave each other alone and stop witch-hunting each other, looking for faults and just simply enjoy the fact that we did do well.

We played a great team and we held them off so well. Okay so we came second but in other sports that’s celebrated, so can’t we just enjoy that?

American Airlines Passenger Is Duct-Taped To Her Seat

A woman was duct-taped to her seat on an American Airlines flight after she supposedly tried to open a plane door and bit a flight attendant.

The unpleasant event was captured on camera by a fellow traveller on the American flight from Dallas to Charlotte on July 6.

The restrained traveller, who’s not been named, was believed to have experienced a mental health episode, approximately two hours into the three-hour journey.

TikTok user @lol.ariee, Arieana Mathena, said that it was obvious something was occurring near the front of the plane and started securing the bathroom doors, and she said that the crew started frantically running up and down the aisle to secure the aircraft as best they could.

Eventually, the captain made an announcement and told passengers to stay in their seats mentioning only that there was a problem towards the front of the aircraft.

After the aircraft landed, the woman could be seen still duct-taped to her seat complete with the tape placed directly over her chin.

She was forced to stay in her seat as other travellers were permitted to deplane, while paramedics were also observed standing by with a stretcher at the gate.

American Airlines confirmed in a statement that the passenger was restrained after causing crew members concern.

A statement read that while in flight from Dallas Fort Worth to Charlotte on July 6, the crew onboard American Airlines flight 1774 reported a possible security concern after a customer tried to open the forward boarding door and physically attacked, bit and caused harm to a flight attendant.

The statement continued that for the safety and security of other customers and the crew, the person was restrained until the flight landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) and could be met by law enforcement and emergency workers.

The woman was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, before being put on American Airlines’ no-fly list.

Perhaps this might not have been the greatest example of how to handle violent air travellers when they become uncontrollable, and I guess the tape across the chin was a bonus. Some big cable ties might come in handy too, and it’s a wonder that flights don’t have some of the heavy-duty large ones on board.

Rest assured, no amount of turbulence was going to bounce this lady from her seat – she was strapped in well enough to have survived hitting a brick wall, but really, there’s nothing funny about people having a mental health meltdown on a plane, and it’s especially stressful and dangerous for the crew, the other passengers and the lady concerned, but this woman is unwell and requires help, not to be made fun of.

There needs to be a better way of restraining passengers, in this type of incident, than duct tape. Now the poor woman has her photo plastered all over the papers.

There must be a much better way, and that the crew would have been trained in, and I’d be curious to know why the crew didn’t use it and if this level of restraint is allowed by law?

Well, if flight attendants need to, they can restrain a passenger on a flight, but some airlines have plastic zip tie type cuffs or seat belt extenders the flight attendants can use to bind the hands, and zip ties or tuff ties are what flight crews are legally permitted to use in case they need to restrain a passenger, but this is only an extreme measure that they will reinforce in case someone is out of control.

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