If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.

If it got cold due to depressurization, wouldn't you suffocate first? In my head, short of flash freezing, I think cold usually takes a little longer. Or at least on an airplane with a leak.

Yes. But the aircraft's emergency oxygen masks did drop down. So theoretically some could have survived the depressurization.

He needed a better lie:

Voutas had called Greek television stations shortly after the Helios Airways flight crashed into a mountainous region north of the capital Sunday, saying his cousin, who he identified as Nikos Petridis, was on board.

He claimed his cousin had sent him a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."

The report that the plane was cold was taken as a sign of decompression — one of the possible explanations authorities have given for the crash, which was Greece's deadliest. But police in Thessaloniki said they had determined he was lying, and there was no Petridis on the Cypriot government's official list of victims.

It's me, isn't it? I finally had time to take lunch and catch up, and now no one is talking,

So bored. Natter not talking. Can't leave desk.

Dude, I just spent the last hour and a half trying to fix someone's computer while everyone else in the corporate office dropped by with a new problem.

And then a man in a wheelchair bummed a cigarette from me.

Legal urban legends. I remember bon talking about the McDonalds coffee incident.

Has anyone ever used Stormpay --- it's like paypal or bid pay.

Co Worker won an auction but didn't read the fine print that she only accepts this. We've never heard of it and right now neither of us can sign up for it because it only accepts email addressess associated with an ISP. I think I have an Earthlink address, but I'm not sure and the phones at work or down so I can't call Sprint and find out.

I remember bon talking about the McDonalds coffee incident.

I've argued with a lot of people about this case. IMHO, the facts of the case do warrant the award.

I remember bon talking about the McDonalds coffee incident.

The coffee incident is one of those things that will get you jumped on if you mention it to most trial attorneys, or at least most of the ones I have met. The jury was so very justified in the award.

I do enjoy arguing from my "enlightened" PoV now. It's such an easy target for bitching.