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British tabloid the Mirror that when he boarded a recent flight to Cape Town, he immediately noticed a wet stain on his seat which reeked of the yellow stuff. Chupacabra Vs. The Alamo Full Movie. I got to my seat and saw that there was a wet patch. It was about the size of two decks of cards laid side by side,” Wilkinson told the paper. At first I thought it was water but the smell was so distinct it could only have been urine.”When he brought the issue to the attention of a stewardess, he said, he got the response “Sorry about that.” The stewardess did not upgrade Wilkinson to business class, but did give him wet wipes. Though the passenger said he put a plastic bag and then a blanket over the stain, he was unable to secure another blanket to put under his butt—and by the end of the flight, it began soaking into his pants. It’s probably fair to say most of us would sit on urine for 1.

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Or at the very least, it’s preferable to being beaten up by security thugs. But it’s definitely fair to say anything that costs $1,5. According to Consumerist, Wilkinson said he got 5,0. When pressed, British Airways threw in an additional flight voucher worth about $7. As Inc. contributor Chris Matyszczyk wrote, Wilkinson’s experience was not exactly unique. On a prior flight, Matyszczyk flew on a Virgin Atlantic plane in which he was given a thin foam pillow instead of an actual seat, resulting in a “a sore, sinking feeling” on his butt.[Mirror via Boing Boing].

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Editor, Xconomy San Diego. Bruce joins Xconomy from the The San Diego Union- Tribune, where he was a longtime business reporter covering technology, aerospace, and other subjects. He was a member of the newsroom team awarded the 2. Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting, and received other awards for disclosing the extraordinary casualty rate among San Diego- based Titan Corp.’s employees in Iraq, and for “The Toymaker,” a 1. San Diego startup company. He graduated from U. C. Berkeley with a B.

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He also covered Seattle venture capital and biotech. Most recently, Benjamin followed the technology, finance and policies driving renewable energy development in the Western US for Recharge, a global trade publication. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Sarah Schmid. Editor, Xconomy Detroit/Ann Arbor. Sarah joins Xconomy Detroit/Ann Arbor after working in Communications for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state’s business development office, and the Michigan House of Representatives. She’s an award- winning journalist who cut her teeth at the small but fiercely muckraking Missoula Independent, where she carved out a beat covering issues critical to Native American people living in the state of Montana.