Pictured: Moment flight attendant was SCALDED with hot water and noodles by unruly passenger who wanted to sit next to her boyfriend

• Thai AirAsia flight was en route to Nanjing, China from Bangkok
• Group lashed out at crew because they were unhappy with their seats
• Man believed to be woman's boyfriend threatened to blow up plane
• Plane returned to Bangkok while first aid was delivered to flight attendant 
• Passenger and her entourage were kicked off the aircraft

By CHRIS KITCHING FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 17:57 GMT, 15 December 2014 | UPDATED: 21:29 GMT, 15 December 2014

 
 
 
 
 

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These photographs taken by shocked travellers aboard a Thai AirAsia flight reveal the dramatic moment a female flight attendant was scalded with hot water by an unruly passenger.

The female passenger, from China, attacked the flight attendant with a cup of noodles in a violent row that began when she found out that she wouldn't be sitting next to her boyfriend on a charter flight from Bangkok to Nanjing, China.

Passengers pulled out their smartphones as the mid-air drama unfolded in front of them, snapping pictures as the injured flight attendant covered her face and shouted in pain.

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Photos posted on the Weibo social-networking website show a flight attendant covering her face

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The flight attendant received first air from her co-workers while the plane returned to Bangkok 

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Noodles are pictured on the floor of the aircraft after they were thrown at the female flight attendant 

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Additional photos show noodles all over the floor of one of the aisles and, once the plane landed, authorities boarding the aircraft to restore order and remove the passenger and her entourage.

The cabin erupted in chaos after the flight attendant was berated and splashed with hot water - even after a cabin crew member helped the couple change seats.

During the chaos a man believed to be the woman's boyfriend jumped out of his seat and angrily threatened to blow up the plane as the injured flight attendant was tended to by her co-workers.

But the man accused of making the threat later said the attendant was scalded by accident during a tussle over a receipt they had requested for the hot water.  

Chinese couple removed from plane after threatening crew

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A passenger captured a video of an angry man after a flight attendant was scalded with hot noodles

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Passengers suffered a five-hour delay after the pilot decided to turn around and fly back to Bangkok 

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Authorities boarded (right) and ordered the unruly passengers to leave as others snapped photos

As a result the pilot decided to abort the 90-minute journey to eastern China and return to the airport in Bangkok, where the plane made an emergency landing. 

One of the photos that emerged on the Weibo social-networking website shows a man carrying a girl through the cabin while being escorted by authorities.

At the airport, airline staff spoke to the woman and her entourage and they all came to an 'amicable' agreement, although the group was forced to return home on a different flight. The U-turn led to a five-hour delay for other travellers.

The air rage incident has gained worldwide attention and led to the Chinese travellers being called 'barbarians' by China's state-run media. 

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A man carries a girl through the aircraft cabin after authorities boarded the plane in Bangkok

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Thai AirAsia flight attendants plead for calm after one of their colleagues was assaulted 

But that will be the least of their concerns as Chinese authorities vowed to severely punish the group for giving Chinese tourists a black eye.

In a scathing statement, China’s National Tourism Administration said the tourists disrupted the flight, hurt other passengers and ‘badly damaged the overall image of the Chinese people.’

The Jiangsu Provincial Tourism Bureau told the South China Morning Post that they had asked the provincial tourism association to blacklist the rowdy group. 

It is not known what penalties those on the blacklist will be subjected to, but the tour guide who led the group has had their licence suspended for a year.

The passengers were reportedly ordered to pay 50,000 Thai baht (approximately £970) in compensation to the injured flight attendant. The woman who threw the cup of hot water and noodles was fined an additional 200 Thai baht (approximately £3.80). 

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The cabin erupted in chaos after the flight attendant was berated and splashed with hot water

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Thai AirAsia says the passenger berated the female flight attendant before scalding her with hot water

Friday's incident comes at a time when the Chinese are travelling more but also becoming notorious for rough behaviour. More than 100 million people from China have travelled overseas this year, more than any other country.

Incidents involving Chinese tourists making angry outbursts have prompted Beijing to issue stern guidelines on behaving abroad. 

In February, according to Thai and Chinese news reports, 27 members of a Chinese tour group were ejected from a China Eastern Airlines flight before take-off from the Thai resort island of Phuket after brawling over seating arrangements. 

During a recent visit to the Maldives, President Xi Jinping asked the Chinese not to litter and destroy coral reefs.

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The Wrong Dog

By ERICA-LYNN HUBERTY

 DECEMBER 13, 2014 6:45 PM December 13, 2014 6:45 pm

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The woman walked up and down Main Street carrying a beautiful 5-month-old black Labrador mix in her arms. The dog was resting on the woman’s shoulder like a baby, gazing helplessly at the pedestrians, cars and shop windows. I was sitting at an outdoor table at the local coffee house with my husband, Alex, and we watched the comical, but endearing, scenario with curiosity.

On her third pass by our table the woman asked, “Can she say hello?” The woman, we soon found, was acting as a “foster mother” for a local rescue organization, and had the puppy out to desensitize her to street noise.

We cringed when we saw pet parents and human parents alike coddling their little monsters despite their bad behavior. Then again, who were we to argue with experts?

We were animal lovers — pet people with three cats and a dog at home along with our two children — so yes, of course, we obliged. The puppy — her name was Nina — immediately curled at my feet, under the protection of my long summer skirt. Alex and I asked, Is she good with other dogs? With cats? With children? She was, the woman said.

We lived in the country, our house butting up against a 30-acre preserve. Many of our neighbors and friends had similar homes brimming with kids and pets. Our pets were always adopted, and were loving and trustworthy companions. I grew up with several cats, and as a college student I worked at the Bennington County Humane Society, in Vermont. Our Rhodesian Ridgeback, Gemma, adored other dogs, and enjoyed a special relationship with our cat Addie, a docile tortoiseshell. They often slept next to each other, and Addie would stand on hind legs to kiss Gemma’s muzzle.

Before adopting Nina, we spoke at length to her foster mother, and also to the woman who ran the small-scale rescue operation.

Our children met Nina, walking her on a leash and playing with her, and she seemed sweet and smart, though shy. She was intensely fearful of loud noises, but with love and training she appeared poised to blossom into a lovely family dog.

But things became complicated when we brought Nina home. She panicked in her new environment, tearing up the stairs to our bedroom. Like an alpha-male guard dog, she leaped onto the middle of the bed and growled with bared teeth. Clearly, she was terrified.

As she growled at me from my bed, I thought, This is bad. I felt a rush of regret and a terrible intuition that this dog was something different than she first seemed. But by bedtime we had calmed her down and she snuggled in bed next to us. A call in the morning to the rescue group assured us that Nina just needed time to adjust to her new home.

Nina bonded quickly with Gemma, and was loving with our kids. She barked at everyone who came to the house, and chewed everything in sight. She gave kisses and was easy to train, listening attentively. She was our “googly, mixed-up puppy.” As fans of the dog trainer Cesar Millan, the “Dog Whisperer,” we believed in giving her a loving but disciplined environment.

Then, one night while I was cooking with a friend and my daughter, Nina suddenly — with a flash of teeth and a high-pitched screech — jumped up and snapped at Addie as she leaped up, terrified. I quickly blocked Nina from attacking Addie, and Nina bit me, pinching the skin on my hand into a red streak, without drawing blood. My friend and I were shaken, my daughter in tears. I put Nina in a bedroom, and shut the door. I cradled Addie, relieved she was fine.

Next, I did something I never thought I would do. I called the woman who ran the rescue group and told her, “I don’t think Nina is the right dog for us. We have two children, and their friends visit. We love our cats.”

It didn’t make any sense, the rescue woman said. Nina had lived with cats with her last foster family here, and with another foster family down south. She loved cats and kids. The woman agreed to send a trainer, and pay for it, to get to the bottom of Nina’s strange behavior.

The trainer had seen “these dogs” before, she said — dogs trucked up the East Coast, traumatized by the journey and moved from shelter to shelter. We were told to throw Cesar Millan’s advice out the window: no “calm-assertive” discipline allowed. We had, she said, inadvertently brought out Nina’s aggressiveness. From now on, it would be gentle time-outs, and treats when anyone came to the door.

Even as we followed these instructions, we questioned them. We cringed when we saw pet parents and human parents alike coddling their little monsters despite their bad behavior. Then again, who were we to argue with experts? After decades of cats, we’d only ever had two dogs, both gentle and well behaved. Perhaps we’d just never had a “real” dog before, one who chewed everything in sight, right in front of you, as you said “No!” Maybe most dogs needed constant discipline, and couldn’t be left alone for two seconds.

Maybe if we were better dog parents, the trainer implied, Nina would be a wonderful and consistent family dog. As for her lunging at Addie, the trainer said there was probably a food issue between them that I was unaware of, and feeding Nina separately would solve it.

In the months that followed Nina made strides; she was affectionate and playful. But at times, out of nowhere it seemed, she would snap at me or Alex and, once, at our son. She would suddenly cower and growl. It was like a switch flipped, yet we couldn’t figure out what had done it.

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One day, Addie ran away. We looked everywhere for her, and after three weeks, she appeared in the meadow behind our house. I put food out and called to her, and she’d call back to me in her sad, yodeling cry, then run back into the thicket. It was February, and she was cold and hungry, but she refused to come home. Finally, as if relenting reluctantly, she came inside. But why had she even left?

Three months later, I took the kids to New York City to visit friends. That night, I couldn’t reach Alex on the phone and felt something was wrong.

It was. Alex had come home from work to find Addie dangling from Nina’s mouth, dead.

Alex described the awful scene to me when he finally called back that night: Nina laid the cat down and looked at him as if to say, “Look what I did.” Gemma sat trembling, up on a chair, the other cats alive but hiding. The kitchen and living room were like a crime scene, the whole house imbued with violence and death.

A friend agreed to take Nina temporarily, and Alex arrived in the city, where we told the children that our beloved cat was dead, and that they would never see their puppy again. Grateful to be surrounded by friends, we tried to focus on the visit. But we knew we had to go home to an emptier house, having lost two once-loved family members, a scene of gruesome devastation.

The hole left by Addie’s death was palpable. On my phone’s home screen, her face peered out at me, her light green eyes wide and questioning. Photos of Nina, too — her soulful expression and floppy ears — were on every device we used.

As each blanket Nina had damaged was pulled from the shelf, my heart jolted with grief. The corner of my pillow had a jagged hole, feathers leaking from it as though it were a mangled bird. At dinner, a napkin unfolded held the very image of Nina’s jaws, a reminder of our missing dog and — in the same instant — of our sweet cat, Nina’s teeth around her throat.

I felt enraged at the rescue woman, foster mother and trainer. Two family members had been taken from us in one horrifying act, one that would never have happened had we not kept Nina. But we had kept her. We took pity on her, and let ourselves believe that beneath her quirky, strange behavior resided a good dog. A friend who fosters animals for a local shelter, who has dogs and cats of her own, said to me, “Some dogs are just too damaged, or not right to begin with, and they’re just not adoptable.”

What she said helps, and I believe she’s right. On the outside, I appear detached, not wanting to discuss Nina, or what will happen to her (she is with another foster family, with little chance for adoption). But I have to admit that I feel terrible guilt and sadness about her.

Many months later, Alex and I are relaxing, watching a detective show, our one dog curled next to us. In this episode a family discovers that their older son has murdered their youngest son. It is a crime mixed up with family dysfunction and childish jealousy and also the horrible detachment of a boy not quite realizing what he has done. At the end, a policewoman asks the mother if she would like to see social services — to give up her son — because how can she live with her other child’s murderer? “No,” the mother says. “Who else will love him now?”

Erica-Lynn Huberty, a writer and visual artist, is the author of “Watchwork” and “Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales.”

Source: New York Times

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SOUTH AFRICA crowned as Miss World 2014

14 December 2014

Rolene Strauss representing SOUTH AFRICA has been crowned as the 64th Miss World at this year’s final in London!

In second place was HUNGARY’s Edina Kulcsár, with Elizabeth Safrit Representing UNITED STATES in Third Place.

This year’s event  was presented by Tim Vincent and Megan Young, the first reigning Miss World to ever host her own final show.

Julia Morley, Miss World Chairman, said: “It was great to bring the 64th Miss World Final back to London and where it all began 63 years ago.

I’m looking forward to travelling with Rolene, the new Miss World, to visit countries around the globe to support this year’s finalists Beauty with a Purpose fundraising projects.”

In an action packed three weeks since arriving in London the contestants have taken part in the Miss World Challenge Events. These included a sports, top model and beach fashion competition, a talent contest, Beauty with a Purpose and a debate at the Oxford Union.

The live event, broadcast to a global audience of more than one billion was a sell out at ExCel London.

Full review, all the pics and video highlights available soon!

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10 Notorious Murderers Who Married In Prison

What draws people to marry prison inmates, or more specifically, what draws them to marry infamous mass murderers? According to prison officials, inmates convicted of the most violent crimes attract the most pen pals; in other words, mass murderers have groupies, and lots of them.

Psychologists have tried to make sense of the idea. Some researchers believe individuals with a history of abuse or low self-esteem are more likely to fall in love with someone who has committed a violent crime; others state that people seek out relationships with killers because it fits their personality type –psychologist Elaine Aron calls this type the “highly sensitive person.” There are a host of other Freudian and Jungian theories attached to the idea, as well as a psychological condition known as hybristophilia, in which sexual arousal is contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a violent crime.

However, maybe marrying a murderer has less to do with low-self esteem or Freud and more to do with seizing 15 minutes of fame. For better or for worse, here are 10 notorious murderers who married in prison.

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 10. Phil Spector

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In 2006, after Phil Spector had been charged with the murder of Lana Clarkson and was out on bail awaiting trial, he married 28-year old Rachelle Short. The marriage not only caused controversy because of their age difference, which led to the widespread use of the word “gold digger,” but the ceremony is said to have taken place in the same foyer where Spector shot Clarkson. On hearing Spector’s guilty verdict, Short said, “That man couldn’t hurt a fly. I don’t believe it.” Phil Spector was responsible for a style of music known as the “Wall of Sound,” but the only thing he’s seeing these days are four walls and some bars. As for Rachelle Short: love might be blind, or it might be blinded by dollars and fame.

9. Suzane Von Richthofen and Sandra Regina Gomes

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While mostly unknown outside of Brazil, Suzane Von Richthofen and Sandra Regina Gomes are two women who committed murders that shocked the country. In 2002, Von Richthofen was jailed for 38 years after arranging for her boyfriend, Daniel Cravinhos de Paula e Silva, and his brother, to kill her parents; the two men beat them to death with tire irons. Sandra Regina Gomez is serving 27 years for her role in the kidnapping and death of a child in 2006. Von Richthofen and Gomez began seeing each other after meeting in the prison clothing factory. They married in 2014.

8. Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.

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Oscar Ray Bolin, accused of raping and brutally murdering three women in the mid-80s, married Rosalie Martinez, his public offender, in a telephone ceremony in 1996. Martinez, who was from a wealthy Tampa family, left her prominent husband and four daughters for Bolin after working with him on one of his rape and murder cases in 1995. According to the Los Angeles Times, Martinez recalls the first time she was escorted into Bolin’s cell. “I felt an affinity for Mr. Bolin. I felt his isolation, his confinement, his loneliness. It affected me. Because I felt the same way. And it left me breathless.”

7. Lyle Menendez

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In 1989, handsome, affluent, and clean-cut brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents while they were asleep at their Beverly Hills mansion. The brothers may have gotten away with it, too, if they hadn’t gone on a spending spree that caught the attention of the police. Erik, the younger brother, eventually confessed to his psychologist that he and his brother were responsible.

The trial was a highly publicized, national sensation. Anna Erikkson, a model and former Playboy playmate, saw Lyle on TV and decided to write to him. It led to a back and forth correspondence, and Erikkson soon moved to Los Angeles to be closer to Lyle. In 1997, on the day of Lyle’s sentencing, the couple married in a telephone ceremony at Folsom State Prison. They divorced in 2001.

6. Charles “Tex” Watson

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Tex Watson, a central figure in the Manson family and often called Charles Manson’s “lieutenant for killing,” married Kristin Joan Svege in 1979 while serving a life sentence for his role in the Tate/LaBianca murders. Svege, 20, was from New Jersey, and she moved to San Luis Obispo at Watson’s request. The two were married on the prison lawn by John S. Milton, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Arroyo Grande. Thanks to a conjugal visit program started under Governor Ronald Reagan in 1971, Watson and Svege had four children. In 1996, conjugal visits were banned for criminals serving life sentences. Watson and Svege divorced in 2003.

5. Kenneth Bianchi

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Kenneth Bianchi and his cousin, Angelo Buono, Jr., are known as the “Hillside Stranglers.” The two men raped and killed 12 women in the Los Angeles area between 1977 and 1979. Bianchi was also a suspect in the “Alphabet Murders,” a series of four unsolved murders in Rochester, New York. In 1989, Bianchi married Shirlee Joyce Book, a Louisiana pen pal who he first started corresponding with in 1986. The wedding took place in the prison chapel of Washington State Penitentiary. Before marrying Kenneth Bianchi, it is rumored that Shirlee Joyce Book tried to woo Ted Bundy.

4. Susan Atkins

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Susan Atkins, otherwise known in the Manson family as “Sexy Sadie,” was married twice while serving a life sentence for her role in the Tate/LaBianca murders. In 1981, in a bizarre storyline that can only be described as helter-skelter, Atkins married Donald Lee Laisure, a self-proclaimed billionaire who liked to replace the “S” in his name with a dollar sign. Supposedly Lai$ure called Atkins “Honey Bear” and spend $6.4 million trying to free her. However, after a couple of months, Atkins had the marriage annulled when she discovered that Lai$ure wasn’t as rich as he said he was and that he’d been married 35 times. Sexy Sadie married again in 1987, this time to a Harvard law student 15 years her junior named James Whitehouse. The couple remained together until Atkins’ death in 2009.

3. Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker

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Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. “The Night Stalker,” was sentenced to death in 1989. His mid-80s crime spree terrorized residents in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he committed 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries. In 1996, Ramirez married one of his pen pal groupies, a self-proclaimed virgin and freelance magazine editor named Doreen Lioy. “He’s kind, he’s funny, he’s charming,” Lioy told CNN in 1997. These are interesting words to describe a man who yelled out “Hail Satan” in court and drew a pentagram with his own blood in his jail cell.

2. Ted Bundy

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Before his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy, an admitted serial killer, rapist and necrophile, confessed to 30 homicides in seven states between 1974 and 1978. However, the true victim count remains unknown. Bundy was handsome and charismatic, and he exploited those characteristics to gain the trust of women; by the time he was captured and held in an Orlando jail, Bundy had a cult of adoring women who believed he was innocent.

Carol Anne Boone, a twice divorced mother of two, moved from Washington to be with Ted Bundy while he was standing trial in Florida. In 1980, Bundy proposed to Carol Anne Boone by taking advantage of an obscure Florida law – a law that states that a marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constitutes a legal marriage. Boone gave birth to a daughter in 1982; it is said that Bundy and Boone were given secret conjugal visits in exchange for information about Bundy’s victims. Finally, three years before the execution, Boone became convinced of Bundy’s guilt and divorced him.

1. Charles Manson

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On November 7th, Charles Manson, the 80-year old mastermind of America’s most notorious mass murder, was granted a marriage license by the state of California. While the date is yet to be determined, Manson plans to wed 26-year old Elaine “Star” Burton. “Y’all can know that it’s true,” Burton said. “It’s going to happen. I love him. I’m with him.” For the past seven years, Burton has run Manson’s social media sites. If the wedding takes place, the world’s most notorious inmate and his girlfriend will be able to invite 10 guests who are not prisoners. The prison has even assigned a wedding coordinator. The couple has until February to get married before having to reapply for another marriage license.

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