BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Smoker tried to open plane door

hilarious, via the bbc:

A French woman has admitted attempting to open an airplane door mid-flight so that she could smoke a cigarette.

Sandrine Helene Sellies, 34, who has a fear of flying, had drunk alcohol and taken sleeping tablets ahead of the flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane.

She was seen on the Cathay Pacific plane walking towards a door with an unlit cigarette and a lighter.

She then began tampering with the emergency exit until she was stopped by a flight attendant.

she then proceeded to send the cathay pacific flight attendant to an ethnic ghetto.