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rsdsharp

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3. So do jet ways.

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:28 PM

Jun 2017

Not only do they prevent old people from being able to throw coins into engines, they prevent people from having airplanes taxi by a hundred feet away, which happened to me in China several times.

For the most part the airports resembled run down bus stations. (This was in 1991).

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Coins thrown into plane engine by elderly passenger for 'luck' [View all] muriel_volestrangler Jun 2017 OP

Oh, dear. Lol. Just imagining the faces of those in charge Hortensis Jun 2017 #1

Prayer changes things. defacto7 Jun 2017 #2

So do jet ways. rsdsharp Jun 2017 #3