Breaking: Karr ate pate and prawns on the plane. I'm not kidding.

[Fridays Child]

[Wheezy]

1. Get OUT!

*shoves at you like Elaine Benis from Seinfeld*

Partaking in plane pate and prawns? Pathetic!

[Warren Stupidity]

7. You do understand that he most likely is not involved in the crime?

Also, he is being extradited to face charges. He is not convicted of anything. Why exactly ought he not be able to order any damn thing he wants on the menu?

[tuvor]

11. I don't think that was Friday's Child's point.

I read it to mean that she was incredulous that Karr's choice of in-flight meal constitutes "breaking news".

[Fridays Child]

15. You're correct, and thanks.

[Fridays Child]

13. The question is why is his dinner menu breaking news.

The screen cap is rather surreal.

[ClintonTyree]

18. What if he'd ordered Kosher?

The middle east would be in even MORE turmoil! The price of gas at the pumps would skyrocket tomorrow.

[elehhhhna]

34. lol

[Jed Dilligan]

96. In the Foxnewsiverse, people are supposed to be punished

as soon as they are suspected of a crime. This includes deprivation of food. It is being paraded in front of us as a shocking example of how low morality has sunk, and that we all must STAND TOGETHER and DO SOMETHING about it.

edit: eople to people

[Wheezy]

17. Um...

Dad? Is that you?

Come on, Warren Stu., reach out, take my hand across the enormous chasm of misunderstanding that haunts this thread.

[Warren Stupidity]

22. I swore to not post on the jonbenetnedlamont threads.

Now I know why. never mind.

[TahitiNut]

25. I keep reminding myself: "Discretion is the better part of valor."

... and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

[Subdivisions]

24. What?

Why exactly ought he not be able to order any damn thing he wants on the menu?

Have we all forgotten that this man IS a prisoner? Nevermind the media thinks his lunch is newsworthy, he IS A PRISONER. He was indicted in California for having child porn. He was a no-show in court and was, in fact, on the lam, a fugitive.

Edited to add: Convicted or not, you and I wouldn't be eating pate and prawns.

[Warren Stupidity]

29. oh crap here I go again

You and I would exactly be able to order any damn thing we wanted off the menu on our flight home while being extradited. This is such a non issue. I now have broken my own vow on this idiotic topic twice in one day.

[Subdivisions]

32. LOL

I knew I could draw you in! lol.

Ok, you're right. Why are we even wasting our time on it, right?

On to more important issues.

God bless you, Jon Benet. Good-bye sweet angel.

[mitchtv]

38. Tell it Warren

what a non issue.The meal is paid for in advance. Innocent until proven guilty (something I doubt will happen) Maybe the airline doesn't serve bread and gruel.

[Skittles]

68. THE F***ING MEAL IS NOT THE POINT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE SICK F****ING MEDIA IS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mitchtv]

83. an 11 word OP doesn't say a thing

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

92. But surely it is the point.

Karr was the only one who didn't have the chicken, and will be forced to land the plane himself.

[Critters2]

58. Really?

I've flown a lot in my life--some of it internationally. My meals have always been pre-packaged plastic chicken--or, now that I'm veg, broccoli and crackers. I've never seen pate' OR prawns. In fact, I've never seen a MENU!!! But then, I've always flown coach.

So, my question is...is Mr. Creepy Guy flying 1st class? 'Cuz that just seems wrong.

[treestar]

67. If he's being deported, officials of the Thai government may be

escorting him back. That might explain first class, and also logistical reasons, perhaps. Maybe it is easier to hold onto a prisoner in first class.

At any rate, it's not worth making something of. But covering it on a news headline is ridiculous.

[mitchtv]

41. If you or I were being extradited for visa violations

on a TransPacific international flight, I'll bet you'd get to chose your meal, too.

[LostinVA]

72. He wasn't extradicted -- he was deported

That really is a huge distinction.

And yeah, he would be able to choose his meal even if he was being extradited!

[goclark]

55. I have never been offered pate and prawns to my knowledge

even on International flights.

[LostinVA]

71. He isn't a prisoner -- that's the thing

He was deported, not extradited. He won't be arrested until he lands on US soil.

I have no idea who paid for his ticket -- US taxpayers or the Thai government.

[elehhhhna]

36. Have y'all SEEN him? JonBenet could have BEAT HIS TINY ASS.

no way that milqetoast did it.

[WinkyDink]

40. He's trying to become a girl. NOT joking.

[mitchtv]

48. Now just what do you mean by that?

He is rather soft, but what does that mean?
twice married, several kids. Heterosexual identified

[mitchtv]

89. whoops, I just saw CNN telling us he had his hair shaved

to prepare for a sex change. I thought I had seen a pair of incipient tits.Remember the Thai police said he claimed to have drugged her also.

[LostinVA]

42. He is NOT being extradited

Thailand only revoked his visa and is deporting him... so, he's technically a free man until he lands at LAX.

[Critters2]

62. So he's payin' for his own shrimp and braunschweiger?

Somehow I don't think so.

[Mr_Spock]

78. OMG! He ate plane food?

He's guilty.

[spanone]

2. Thanks for that bit of info, life would be hardly worth living without

cable news. America has really drifted into the twilight zone. Pathetic.

[IChing]

3. I wonder, if ever, the media will ever eat crow on this story?

The public has been already been fed the garbage,
swallowed it then asked for seconds

[patricia92243]

4. He had champaign to drink - no handcuffs. I hope this not how the US offi

officials are handling this. I hope they have better sense. The officials from the country he was in (can't remember) handled things a LOT differently than we are accustomed to. He sat in the main lobby of the air terminal with no handcuffs or leg irons - sounds almost like they would like to have another Lee Harvey Oswald incident.

[Human Torch]

5. Eventually the media packs up its tent and goes home...

...and when people stop watching, things can go sideways...quickly. Suddenly sex changes and jumbo shrimp are the least of one's concerns...

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/da...

Dahmer, the model prisoner, convinced the prison authorities to allow him more contact with other inmates. He was able to eat in communal areas and he was given some janitorial work to do with other teams of inmates.

For some incredible reason, he was paired up with two highly dangerous men on a work detail: Jesse Anderson, a white man who had murdered his wife and blamed it on a black man, and Christopher Scarver, a black delusional schizophrenic who thought he was the son of God, who was in for first-degree murder. It's not difficult to imagine how Scarver viewed Jeff Dahmer, who had butchered so many black men, and Anderson. It was a disastrous combination.

On the morning of November 28, 1994, the guard left these three men alone to do their work. Twenty minutes later, the guards came back to find Dahmer's head crushed and Anderson's fatally injured body nearby. A bloody broom handle seemed to represent Scarver's statement on the subject. Jeffrey Dahmer was pronounced dead at 9:11 A.M.

[kdpeters]

88. I'm glad you brought this up

This demonization and dehumanization of criminals has disastrous results, but I really doubt most people care. Never mind the relevant fact he's being deported rather than extradited, anyone who seriously thinks the problem with the justice system is the fine dining is an ignorant fool. There's only one note publicly acceptable once someone even mentions pedophilia -- hysteria. Conversely, if you want to shut down discussion and send people into hysterics, just mention pedophilia and suddenly people are outraged and appalled over a fucking meal. I really hate talking about these issues concerning corrections and punishments. For some reason it really brings out the sadist in people.

[QuestionAll...]

6. whose pate did he eat? nt

[Wheezy]

20. I believe it belonged to

Peppermint Paté.

[QuestionAll...]

95. maybe they meant headcheese?

we all know how the media is right up on their facts.

[Wheezy]

98. How dare you

call Charlie Brown 'headcheese'.

[Warren Stupidity]

Silence of the lambs part two nt.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Prawns plus pate prove pedophilia. (nt)

[Fridays Child]

14. Prawns plus pate prove press poppycock.

[threadkillaz]

27. PRAWNOPHILIA

nt

[Jackpine Radical]

30. He's just a prawn in the media's game.

[Critters2]

59. Ya see?! This is when you need a chuckling smiley

because this is just a bit too much. But it is funny.

"prawn in the media's game"...*chuckle*

[onecent]

9. Also CNN said he had a beer, champagne and wine. All 3 I guess.

Maybe they'll loosen him up so he'll confess... HARR HARR

[Olney Blue]

12. Alcohol is always recommended for someone on SUICIDE WATCH.

[TahitiNut]

26. Someone might inform CNN that champagne is wine.

Just sayin'.

[xultar]

51. Sorry, You're wrong. Champagne isn't wine. It is Champagne..from the

Champagne grape. Champagne soooo isn't wine. I take offense to that. How low class can you be? I'm a connoisseur like Patsy from Ab Fab. Please don't offend me by comparing wine grapes to Champagne grapes which are equal to the scrotums of the Gods.

Jeez...Champagne is wine. Ahh you must be one of those US beer belly drinkers.

[TahitiNut]

86. "Champagne grape"???

cute. very cute.

[robertarctor]

10. It doesn't matter what happens to him. The story has done Rove's job ...

... in knocking other headlines off the front pages and cable news leads. Talking heads chattering about how a judge told Dictator Fuckstick that he was shredding the Constitution with his illegal wiretaps? No, not if there's a "sexy" story about some Kevin Spacey lookalike who claims he murdered Jon-Benet Ramsey, even though his ex-wife says he spent the 1996 Christmas holiday home with the family in Alabama, which would have necessitated a day of travel (by car, then by air) on December 25 to get from Alabama to the Denver metro area.

Who gives two shits what he ate on the plane? I'd rather see his banking records, and if there were any checks from the Ramsey family or Karl Rove.

[Tanuki]

16. Karr was pre-op transsexual

according to this story. That will give media something to chatter about for a few more days:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/new...

[LostinVA]

43. How reputable is the Mail???

[Critters2]

60. I actually wondered about this

(so how sad is MY life?). I thought, he's got man boobs. Big'uns.

In my own defense, I was home sick two days this week--bad ear infection with fever--and had little to do but pop anti-biotics, decongestants, naproxen; and watch TV. Too much TV.

[TlalocW]

19. Prawns on a Plane!

Let me just be the first to say, "We've got mother-effin' prawn on this mother-effin' plane!"

TlalocW

[ClintonTyree]

21. Good One!

Yep, prawns on a plane. BE SCARED, BE VERY SCARED!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

23. Somebody's gotta photoshop OBL into Karr's seat on that plane.

Pate, champagne, and Mission Impossible 3.
The absurdity! The absurdity!

[devilgrrl]

28. Sounds like Henry Lee Lucas...

another media manufactured bogeyman, an alledged dangerous serial killer that was wined and dined to scare the public.

[alfredo]

31. Who gives a flying fuck!!!

the world is descending into chaos and they waste our time with some sick fuck and what he is eating on his plane ride home.

[Subdivisions]

33. Yep, Iraq has plunged into total chaos, civil war and

anarchy.

But at least we know what some wacko had for lunch one of the hundreds of airplanes on that are criss-crossing the planet.

edit: grammar

[alfredo]

37. If we don't see it happening, it isn't happening.

[elehhhhna]

35. I heard that Carr asked for a St. Pauli Girl.

[WinkyDink]

39. I don't think a pedophile/child pornography-owner ought to have a

law-enforcement officer CLINK CHAMPAGNE GLASSES WITH HIM.

But that's just me.

[SmokingJacket]

44. Maybe the officer has a strong sense of irony?

Really, it is bizarre.

[Recursion]

57. I still think he confessed to avoid jail in Thailand on other charges

Pretty convenient, since he already has an alibi in the form of his ex-wife, AND there's physical evidence that could exhonerate him.

[LostinVA]

73. Thailand says there WERE no charges against him in their country

He is being deported because of his outstanding warrant in the Sonoma case.

[immoderate]

45. He should have had shrimp and chopped liver instead.

Coincidentally, someone just sent me this, it may be pertinent:

It was mealtime during a flight on El Al.

"Would you like dinner?," the flight attendant asked Moshe, who was seated in front.

"What are my choices?," Moshe asked.

"Yes or no," she replied.

Maybe he turned down the filet mignon and the lobster.

--IMM

[Critters2]

61. hehehe nt

[KeepItReal]

46. Don't forget the champagne they gave him in Business Class

WTF??

[zeemike]

47. Oh my, this is hugh!!!

And to think I got rid of my satellite dish just a month ago. Now I will miss this earth shaking news.

[Cleita]

49. You know how much more important this is than how

many lives were lost in the Middle East today, and what the GOP is doing to dismantle our Constitution and laws that safeguard us.

Don't you know real news when you see it? Or are you one of those wacko, lefty, moonbats who just want to smear his divinity, our burning Bush..

[niyad]

50. are WE paying to fly this guy first class? because you sure as HELL don't

get pate and king prawns in coach!!

[soothsayer]

53. bizness class

[Recursion]

56. Gov't pays single rate, regardless of class

Same way with a hotel; you can get a 5-star penthouse suite for the CONUS rate ($79 per night when I got out) if you play your cards right. The contracts are so big that the airlines and hotels gladly lose the extra $$ for the big ticket stuff to keep the lucrative day-to-day stuff they get.

Now, if only the GSA was allowed to use that same sort of bargaining with pharmaceutical companies, eh?

[Gregorian]

52. Never mind who revealed CIA agent, Plame.

Please, just ignore the important news. We have devolution to accomplish.

[Recursion]

54. God I love good pate

And I think a review of the quality of the pate on the airline would have more news value than telling me that this guy ate it.

Are there any media outlets with good food reviews anymore?

[elehhhhna]

69. Chicago just made it illegal

[Initech]

63. Anything to avoid talking about actual news, right?

<- rolled back as far in my head as they can possibly go

[Critters2]

64. Zackly!

Leave us to our happy little world of dead white girls and creepy guys. It makes us happy, and that's the point, right?

[daleo]

65. prawns===>porns

pate====>Putin

Evil! Evil!

Plus, these are things that French people eat.

Evil! Evil!

[goodhue]

66. He is reportedly not being held in custody!?

Will he be free to go where he likes upon landing?

[LostinVA]

76. He is a free man while he flies -- he was NOT extradited

Although many posters on many JB threads think he was. He was merely deported. When he lands, I'm positive he'll be arrested on the Sonoma charge only.

[slackmaster]

70. The radio told me he sipped Champagne and Chardonnay

Dead man flying?

FTR I think he didn't do it.

[Bluebear]

74. I wonder what kind of salad dressing? White or wheat dinner roll?

[donco6]

93. And how many times did he get up to take a leak?

Jeebus. . .

[freeplessinseattle]

75. omg, as I'm reading this, it is the Top Story on ABC news!

That was the very first sentence out of the anchorman's mouth, about what Karr ate. isn't there something, anything, more important to be their Top Story???

[Homer Wells]

77. I am SHOCKED!

Breaking News INDEED!!??

[LoKnLoD]

79. Rove is starting to pay off his debt to Carr

for the distraction he created in the media. LOL

"It seems odd to me. If there is an arrest warrant issued, he ought to be under arrest," said former Adams County District Attorney Bob Grant, who was involved in the Ramsey investigation. "It is very strange. Whoever is in control of him ought to make sure he isn't doing things like drinking champagne."

Good actor too:

"The suspect was relaxed, smiling and chatting nonstop with the U.S. officials next to him until the television news crews on the flight turned their cameras on. Then he stopped smiling, clutched the armrests of his seat and stared at his lap. "

[datasuspect]

80. miranda warning?

maybe he wasn't technically in custody during the international flight.


anything he said to his escorts could then be used against him in court since he wasn't technically in custody.

[goodhue]

82. he is not in fact in custody

[datasuspect]

85. then he more than likely wasn't mirandized

any champagne-induced conversation would be admissible in court.

[gordianot]

81. This Michael Karr should be in the news.

Do not forget Michael Karr.

see link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[helderheid]

84. and champagne n/t

[PBass]

You get nice food on some long-distance flights.

End of story.

[PBass]

87. You get nice food on some long-distance flights.

End of story.

[KamaAina]

90. Not only that, he watched "The Last Samurai"!

I knew it! I just knew Tom Cruise was mixed up in this somehow!

Then again, I only saw that clip because the other two channels had Bush** on them; I'll take the manufactured murder suspect, thank you very much!

[goclark]

91. Is the red shirt suppose to represent the devil in him?

And what about the black tie?

[dkofos]

94. I could not have made it thru the day without that very

important news.

[WI_DEM]

97. Who the hell cares? and why the hell is that considered "breaking news"?