James Whipple said he had two "really big beers" at the Boise, Idaho, airport. While on a flight to Salt Lake City on March 7, he wanted to use the cabin restroom.

The captain had declared it off-limits during the short flight because a light wasn't working.

Whipple said he had used the cabin restroom before the plane departed but had to go again and finally reached for the air-sickness bag.

"It was like I had no choice," Whipple told the Salt Lake Tribune, which posted the story on its Web site today.

No other passengers noticed Whipple using the bag, but a flight attendant asked him about it and told the captain, who called airport police.

Whipple was questioned and took a taxi home to Sandy, a Salt Lake City suburb.

The airline sent him a letter of apology and a flight voucher, SkyWest spokeswoman Sabrena Suite-Mangum said today.

She said SkyWest decided to go ahead with the flight and get the light fixed in Salt Lake City, rather than delaying it or canceling it for repairs.

"For such a short flight, we really felt we were trying to inconvenience the least number of passengers possible by operating that flight," Suite-Mangum said.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Of course, the travel vouchers that Whipple received aren't really seats, he just gets to sit in the cabin bathroom the whole time. Better safe than sorry.

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A German belly dancer has been awarded 12,000 compensation after a plastic surgeon accidentally sucked away one of her buttocks.

Julia 'Cleopatra' Meyer, 38, from Munich, wanted slimmer thighs and instead ended up with half her bum missing.

The court heard that during the liposuction the plastic surgeon, not named, from a private clinic, had removed fat from her right buttock instead of her thighs.

She said: "I had been unhappy with my saddlebags, the fat stored in the outer thigh area. Because of the local anesthesia I did not realize what he was doing.

"When I saw afterwards that half of my bum was missing I almost fainted. It had been completely sucked away."

A consultant at the Berlin Charité hospital asked for an expert opinion said it was a "grave error in treatment".

The court heard the woman can no longer perform. She does not even dare to go to a swimming pool because she is ashamed of the way she looks.

The surgeon has been ordered to pay her 12,000 - twice the 6,000 she had been seeking.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Come see Cleopatraa at the Gentleman's Club of Munich--Half price!

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NEW figures reveal that thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent on paying for parking fines after traffic wardens targeted marked POLICE cars.

The Metropolitan police paid Islington Council £1,400 in parking fines in 2006. The year before the figure was more than £2,000.

In total, the police have paid Islington Council almost £7,000 in parking fines over four years, since 2002.

The police have confirmed the figures include fines paid for marked police vehicles - easily identified by the blue lights on top and fluorescent stripe along the side.

Councillor Richard Watts (Labour) who uncovered the figures, said: "It's bonkers! I think residents will be shocked to hear that their taxpayer's money, which should be going into the fight against crime, is going into paying parking tickets.

"Police budgets are stretched and the last thing they should be worrying about is dodging traffic wardens. It's just another example of what a rip-off Islington's parking policy is. The council should immediately repay this money to the police."

Campaigner Tim Newark, of the Local Freedom Party, added: "It is extraordinary. Traffic wardens should be trained and educated into exercising common sense and good judgement - they should not be ticketing police cars.

"Their job is to ensure the smooth flow of traffic, not to raise revenue through parking fines.

"It's a waste of taxpayer's money, and I hope the figures change this year now the council is supposed to be pursuing a new policy on parking."

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Janet Robertshawe, 36, was yesterday called as a defense witness in the trial of an alternative health professional accused of indecently assaulting three female patients.

The man, whose name and specific occupation are suppressed, is accused of touching the breasts of two of the women and the breast and genitalia of the other during massage treatment.

Mrs Robertshawe, a solicitor from Invercargill, is a former patient of the accused. She volunteered to be a patient in a massage demonstration the accused performed in front of the jury box yesterday.

Mrs Robertshawe entered the courtroom in a white robe, was sworn in by the court crier, disrobed then lay face down on a massage table dressed only in her bra and underwear.

Before the demonstration began, Judge Les Atkins instructed the members of the jury it is not a reconstruction of the events relating to the charges, but an effort to show them what is involved in a typical treatment. A camera was position near the jury box to record the demonstration for evidential purposes.

The accused then began the treatment, undoing Mrs Robertshawe's bra early in the procedure.

She was moved onto her left side, facing the jury, as the accused continued the vigorous deep tissue massage treatment.

The movement exerted on Ms Robertshawe's body shook her bra free and a towel covering her frequently fell down, exposing her breasts to the court.

After about 10 minutes, the jury was asked to retire while the massage table was packed up. The accused was still massaging Mrs Robertshawe as the jury was led from the court.

Mrs Robertshawe, fully clothed, later gave evidence from the witness box. She said she was referred to the accused in 1998 for treatment on a back complaint, and has received more than 40 treatments from him since.

She told defence counsel Robert Lithgow the treatment had "excellent" long-term results.

Mrs Robertshawe described the accused as "very enthusiastic" and "innocent" but "there was no procedure".

"I think there are some ways that he practices that are different to other practitioners that could perhaps put him in danger of the type of allegations that have been made against him."

Mr Lithgow put to her that someone watching the courtroom demonstration may think there is "a degree of indignity in the whole thing".

"I guess (the accused's) treatments aren't for the faint hearted," Mrs Robertshawe said. "They're pretty full on."

She said the accused seems to treat the body "like a broken machine and is completely indifferent to the particular parts of it".

When Mrs Robertshawe finished giving evidence, Judge Atkins told her "you probably made history today as a barrister and solicitor of the court, so thank you".

"And we can promise you it won't appear on YouTube," Mr Lithgow quipped.

Goosey's Gabbings...

After this revolutionary barrier being broken in lawsuits, I am officially petitioning to be on any jury for prostitution cases. I am willing even to sacrifice the per diem charge for the services.

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