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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world
  • China Southern Airlines warned passengers on social media not to throw coins at planes.
  • A Wednesday flight was delayed four hours after such an incident.
  • In a video, a flight attendant tells confused passengers someone threw "three to five coins" into the engine.
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[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 7 months ago

Why in the shitfuck would anyone feel the urge to throw coins at a fking plane? Ashame this was not highlighted in the summary

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 99 points 7 months ago

Superstitious dumbfucks. Same energy as buying rhino horn for erectile dysfunction

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Wait, rhino horn doesn't work?

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

No you need human horn for that.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago
[-] Contingencyfork@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

No you need something pointed.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

This is tubesteak erasure

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

You're thinking of the lower horn.

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You have to scratch the right part of the prostate with it. That's where most people get it wrong.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Of course it works!

Horn makes you horny and big horn make you big horny!

It's only logical /s

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Only rhino milk. Coincidentally the key ingredient in printer ink - hence the absurd prices.

[-] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Not saying they aren't superstitious, but i have never heard of the act of throwing coins into a jet engine as part of any superstition.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It's not that they're specifically throwing coins at the engine, but that the superstition is to chuck some coins at a thing to try and get some luck on your side. Like a mix of wishing well and good luck charm.

The engine is probably because it's accessible, and they're unlikely to miss when hitting it. You also just don't hear stories from people who do chuck a coin at the wing, or into the cabin, because it doesn't cause any problems, so doesn't make news.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Duh. Everyone knows the cure for erectile dysfunction is lottery tickets

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 75 points 7 months ago

This isn't the first time a passenger has thrown coins into a plane's engine.

CNN reported that it happened on another Chinese Southern Airlines flight in 2017, when an elderly passenger said it was "a prayer for a safe flight."

Every time you think you know how dumb people can be, they find a new way to surprise you.

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

I might ask a dumb question as well... But how does a passenger even accomplish that? From inside the plane? Just before boarding? On a high tower throwing coins downward on a low flying plane? Wutttt

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Not all airports use a bridge. Many use stairs to get up. That lets you get right next to the engine.

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I figured. Still at a loss for words

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Especially since it already happened relatively recently.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Having had a dirt poor illiterate farmer grandmother, I can totally see how some people with the best of intentions might make presumptions about things which sound really stupid for most people.

I mean, at some point when I was a kid and she was staying with us, my grandmother got really confused when she saw the same actor in multiple soap operas because she thought soap operas were real and we had to explain to her the concept of theatre acting.

Ultimatelly it boils down to that person having or not the kind of personality which recognizes their own ignorance on a subject and refrains from acting on such presumptions, and clearly in this case somebody ignorantly presumed it would be a good thing and went ahead and did it.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

It's for luck. Like throwing coins into a well or on train tracks. No one said it was a good idea. But it makes some folks feel more calm about their journey, despite wrecking havoc on a turbofan.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Oh, it'll bring luck alright. Probably not the kind they want though.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

"May this trip be swift and leave me firmly back on the ground"

* throws some coins into the plane engine *

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

We did coins on the tracks to flatten them for fun!

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

I’ve been on planes with groups of people who obviously have never flown before and were getting up and walking around during take off. This does not surprise me at all.

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