Doofus #121 is Darnell L. Frazier of St. Paul, MN.
Note to criminals: Do not lie to police about your name when your surname is tattooed on your neck.
Darnell L. Frazier, 25, did just that ... uh, well, he tried to do just that early Thursday on St. Paul's East Side.
According to the police report, an officer stopped two men walking in the street at Forest Street and Minnehaha Avenue. One was "evasive" about his identification, telling the officer he had never had a photo ID. He said his name was Darnell Lewis, spokesman Peter Panos said.
The officer, however, noticed that the man had "Frazier" tattooed on his neck.
Frazier was arrested on four misdemeanor warrants, including driving after license revocation, driving after suspension and no proof of insurance.
He also had at least two felony warrants for his arrest: a probation violation in Jackson County for bringing a stolen vehicle into Minnesota and a failure to appear in Hennepin County on a drug charge.
The 25-year-old St. Paul man is currently residing in the Ramsey County jail.
He has a lengthy history of felony convictions in addition to the warrants, including receiving stolen property, theft, and having dangerous weapon on school grounds.
Uh-huh. Smart, smart move, Darnell.
Doofus #122 is a collective award to the pilots of a Hong Kong Airlines Boeing 737.
Two Hong Kong Airlines pilots have been sacked after trying to take off from a taxiway rather than the main runway at the city's airport, a report said Sunday.
The pair, an Indonesian captain and Argentinian co-pilot, were only stopped by an alert air traffic controller who saw them speeding on the taxiway and warned them to stop, according to the Sunday Morning Post.
Their Boeing 737 was carrying 122 passengers and seven crew, the report said.
The flight, bound for Cheongju in South Korea from Hong Kong International Airport, took off after the aborted attempt on September 13.
Taxiways at the airport run the full length of the runways but are narrower, have green lighting and no lights down the centre, the paper said.
The two were dismissed after an investigation by the southern Chinese city's Civil Aviation Department, which recommended improvements to lighting and marking at the airport, one of Asia's busiest.
The pilot told management he was not making a takeoff and was merely travelling at speed, the report said.
Um . . . remind me not to fly Hong Kong Airlines when I'm next in that part of the world, will you?
Peter
2 comments:
It wasn't a mistake; the pilot was merely trying to remind us of Boss Daley's atrocious behavior at Meigs Field by recalling what the owners of aircraft based there had to get their planes out.
We used the "parallels" as they're called in Germany while work was being done on the runway. This also put the F-16s on full afterburner several hundred yards closer to our shop--we'd stop talking for a minute while one took off, then stop again a minute later as his wingman went by.
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