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Senior Stowaway Arrested For 10th Attempt To Fly For Free


When attaining retirement age, everyone needs a hobby. So a 66-year-old Chicago woman has found hers. She sneaks aboard international flights without ticket nor passport. Her most recent was attempting to fly from Chicago O’Hare to London, and was arrested for the 10th time.

So, as you celebrate your 65th birthday when everyone else retires, keep gainfully active as she has. Consider such delightfully criminal hobbies as taking illegal flights, picking pockets, shoplifting, robbing banks, printing counterfeit money or running for political office.

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USA Today ran a similar poll recently on the in-air vocal disturber subject, and yakky Donald Trump won first place among the other candidates. We don’t quite disagree, because most seasoned citizens would not want any gabby politician up close and bending our ear hour after boring hour.

Our senior readers poll revealed other unwanted seatmates. Here are the top five:

Mother in law: Bad enough when she nags from the back seat of the car. That face and shrill voice next to you for all those hours, even on a day flight, is a nightmare. Third grade teacher Ms. Fralinger: Even with the seat belt sign on, she’d make you stand up and recite Shakespeare or the multiplication table.

John Paul Jones: When the plane sits on the tarmac after five delayed hours, all he’d say is: We have not yet begun to flight.

John Wayne: The Duke would tell us how he killed all the bad guys and won the West from Hollywood’s fake Monument Valley movie set.

Jesus: At first all the bottled water being turned into wine would be welcome. However, after an eight-hour flight, we’d be too unsteady to stand up and stagger to the exit.

 
 
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