American website Gawker this morning.
Bmurfy writes:
What a horrible headline…
Aer Lingus Passenger Flips Out, Bites Fellow Passenger, Dies (Gawker)
Woman arrested after man dies on Aer Lingus flight (RTÉ)
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Everything. As It Happens.
The headline is bad, the article is also
filed to “zombie apocalypse”
Another article I read this morning described the ‘running amok’, the biting and the violence followed by;
“However, the man was not Irish”.
the difference is, we’re Irish
That’s Gawker for you. If the tragedy doesn’t occur in the US, then it’s ‘hilarious’. Their coverage of the Berkeley tragedy descended into comment after comment of drunken Irish jokes.
One of the great pleasures of this modern life is reading the gawker comments section.
+1,000,000 you win the internet and Florida jokes. My instant reaction is cant wait to see what Gawker comments will say about this one! Cup of tea and biscuits mandatory.
This is a standard Gawker headline which has it’s own terrible vocabulary known as “gawker speak”. Headlines are usually like “This thing happened because this” or “This thing is so terrible I can’t even”.
I’m having trouble digesting all this
#kantkope
^ this ^
Gawker may have bitten off more than they can chew
Gawker is a horrible, hateful website, fond of body-shaming women and outing people who they suspect to be gay like it it is some sort of joke.
Ironically, it’s their feminist forward derivative, Jezebel, that does that…..
I fail to see why people are outraged, outraged I tell ya, about this.
Did he wake up after dying? That would be a shock to the person he bit.
Miley Cyrus dressed in a Jewish themed leotard for James Franco’s bar mitzvah …at age 37.
Yes, Gawker is a great source of news.
Brazilian, flying in from Portugal, perhaps connecting through from Brazil?
With internal luggage? Speculative, but possible.
I reckon his internal luggage ruptured and it all went downhill from there. Grim.
load of me balls – dis will have em barking
Poor person, God rest him, whatever illness he suffered.
Is “15 condoms full of smack” an illness now?
his female companion was found with drugs in her case so he was probably muling and it burst in his stomach causing the reaction
I had not read that. Any link to it?
Stand down…found it. Thanks.
Twas on RTE news earlier but details were scarce when I saw the news.
It all sounded a bit mad and sort of Snakes on a Plane to me.
Maybe we should invade Gawker comments section?
YES!
or rather…
YAAAAAAAAS
Steady on. let’s not go all 4chan.
Or, god forbid, Buzzfeed.
…seems like an accurate summary….
How is it a horrible headline?
Even without any actual journalism it’s pretty clear that is what actually happened.
Syntax. There is none. And that in itself is a crime, never mind the drug trafficking.
It’s gawker not The Economist.
Beats that Rachel Allen Bia fare to be honest.
It’s no worse than “Man bites flier then dies in jet hell” in our very own Irish Sun.