Joseph Emerson, who was off-duty at the time, was restrained by Alaska Airlines cabin crew after he tried to open an emergency exit
  • ironhydroxide@partizle.comEnglish
    1171·
    1 year ago

    Terrible journalism. He was sleep deprived after having taken mushrooms 48hrs before, and not slept for 40hrs.

    • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      171·
      1 year ago

      More road accidents happen due to sleep deprivation than alcohol, so this tracks. But we can’t have war on sleep deprivation, can we?

    • lepthesr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Holy shit, how much did he take? I can do grams from sundown to sun up and all I want to do after that is go to bed.

      • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Sure, you want to go to bed but can you really sleep? The first few times I couldn’t sleep at all and had to usually wait until the following evening. I am used to it now, so sleep isn’t a huge issue like it once was.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    612·
    1 year ago

    thought he was having a nervous breakdown

    Is there really a difference between thinking you’re having a nervous breakdown and actually having one?

    Btw, saying this as a huge fan of psychedelics, please don’t take any shrooms and drive. Or fly. Or do anything other than lie peacefully in a quiet place and explore your mind.

    • d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Well I wouldn’t go that far. What about a nice walk outside with a friend or sitting in front of a fire or a jam session, just to name a few activities.

  • Swim@lemmy.caEnglish
    214·
    1 year ago

    Emerson said it was his first time taking mushrooms”. ya fkn right, ill take lies for $500 Alex. Who does magic mushrooms on a plane for their first time, spoiler, no one.

    • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I went to Walmart for the first half of my first shroom trip, and the second half was spent in nature.

      The exposure to nature was absolutely better and led to a transcendental experience of a sense of interconnectedness with nature that lead to an identity shift, and which pulled my teenage self out of pervasive clinical depression.

      But Walmart was also surprisingly amazing fun!

  • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    Even if he was, and I’m guessing he wasn’t, high on mushrooms. How does that make it any different than if he passed out at the controls while drunk? Highlighting mushrooms feels like a conservative push

    • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      He wasn’t at the controls. He was hitching a ride on a flight piloted by somebody else, which isn’t unusual for pilots. You should read the full story, but this is what I understand what I heard earlier.

      He was already depressed and had lost somebody close to him recently. Did mushrooms, (presumably) had a bad trip, doesn’t sleep for the next 48 hours, then boards the flight as a passenger. Apparently he was suicidal and felt like he was dreaming so he probably didn’t have a full sense of the consequences of his actions; I don’t think he was out to kill anybody but himself. Told the flight crew “you better get me off this flight or it’s going to get bad” or something to that effect after already acting out and needing to be restrained. Then they make an emergency stop to let him off.

      I’m for legalizing psychedelics, but unfortunately it seems the mushrooms are integral to the story. Although it should be said that this guy very clearly wasn’t in a state to be doing psychedelics without any professional supervision, guidance, and/or aftercare. I’ve said all that I know about the story here, and it’s admittedly very little, but chances are that a little bit of education would have gone a long way to prevent this.

  • Blackout@kbin.social
    162·
    1 year ago

    The last time I was on mushrooms I stumbled into a temple I could only describe as doomy and watched a guy rip a heart out of another guy’s chest! It was wild. Then when it was my turn the guy kept asking what I wanted to order. I said “I’ll order anything, just let me keep my heart” and he responded “Do you want fries with that?” True story, it was later made into a Hollywood blockbuster called Demolition Man and the rest is history.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        “I pulled both emergency shutoff handles because I thought I was dreaming and I just want to wake up”

        lmao. Maybe get a dream exit strategy that doesn’t double as a real-world major safety disruption.

  • Blademax@lemmy.oneEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    The 'ol “high on magic mushrooms” defense. … Hope he doesn’t plan on representing himself, too.