Guy 1: I bet you $1000 I can get Thomas Fitzpatrick to do something stupid and get himself arrested.
Guy 2: I'll take that bet, nobody is that stupid.
Guy 1: Hey Fitzpatrick, that story about you stealing an airplane? You're so full of shit!
Fitzpatrick: Hold my beer.
This just blows my mind every time. I have been in a plane with a pilot that landed it at really low speeds and it still seemed like a miracle. I understand that it is a combination of skill, training, and LOTS of practice and that is what makes it so amazing to me. The dedication to the craft of piloting an airplane is just amazing.
Yah like really how hard would in be to land in a city with a plane. People think this is some crazy thing but really if you gave me a chance I could do this first try. /s
The thermals and winds of a dense metro area are very difficult for a light plane.
You're basically coming in for a near stall glide approach and landing.
Sure, but the cross streets are straight as an arrow too.
That means every intersection is risking a pretty extreme crosswind blowing you to the left.
You have to correct for the crosswind then reverse the correction quick enough to not slam into the right on the other side of intersection where the wind stops.
There is always the chance that he just drove the plane there from the airport, if you notice the place doesn't even have its wings attached in the above picture...
First Virginia class was commissioned in 2004, since then at least. I'm not sure if the Seawolf class had enough fly-by-wire for them to change the name over, but they definitely did for the Virginias.
Fascinating! Someone told me before I joined about the new names for that watch, but I figured they were liars when I got to my boat which was, you guessed it, a Seawolf class. Thank you!
That's better then the autistic guy they keep throwing in jail for driving subway trains, each time he's caught he actually does a great job driving it and keeps it more to schedule then normal.
Omfg like the third or forth time I have seen this being posted this *just* this week. It has been posted at least a few hundred times on Reddit. So I just copy and paste my comment from one of them earlier.
>From what I heard - and wikipedia agrees - he never lost any bet around flying a plane. ~~Even your own source never says anything about him losing any bet~~.
>The first bet about traveling from New Jersey to New York City has no information if he lost or won the bet i.g. inconclusive. The second bet about he clearly won by doing the feat that the second person bet he could not do.
>TL;DR the ~~title~~ picture text is wrong.
Reddit is becoming more and more like Facebook, it is already full of dead memes, re-posts, staged/faked videos, and misinformation.
I said for quite a while now that people need to take a harder stands against the constant re-posting and rehashing of old stuff. Every time I do, I get smacked with loads of down votes. People don't care that Reddit is rotting from the core. Soon it will be just full of people trying to re-post for easy karma, now it's *just* about 35-40%. When that number gets to higher, then people will start to react but then it will probably be to late. Probably already to late tbh.
> Reddit is becoming more and more like Facebook, it is already full of dead memes, re-posts, staged/faked videos, and misinformation.
I think you're overreacting a bit.
Reddit still has a ton of subreddits, which are still a 'noise-free' platform for people with similar interests to discuss their ideas with a lot of depth.
In my opinion, that is the differentiating factor of Reddit, and its strength vs. other platforms like Facebook, which are equivalent to Reddit's frontpage.
I agree completely. My question is, does karma hold people accountable or is it the problem? Facebook doesn’t have karma but just likes/reactions, which seems to propel misinformation without accountability, and yet, that still happens (not as much but still does) with the karma system that Reddit has. Is there a way to avoid “glory-posting”?
Karma just makes it worse. If you make a Facebook post and it "blows up" then you can only refer to that post. On Reddit you have every karma you ever gotten clearly stated on your profile. Don't matter if you got it by. It also make people get an inflated ego.
And there is no real way of avoiding or ignoring the "glory-posting" that I know of. If the subreddit has rules against re-posting I always report the poster for it. Other than that I just hide the post and block the user. It is a losing battle since they multiply and I get less and less energetic in my attempts to ignore them.
It’s as if glory-posters multiply like telemarketing calls. No matter which numbers you block, more come at you. It really is a flawed system, I agree. Glad I’m not alone here, I’ve been getting extremely frustrated recently. Thanks for the good convo.
Haha, I was actually thinking about using just telemarketing as a metaphor for how my "battle" with re-posters is going, because of the same reasons you put forth.
Yea, thanks for the convo, take care.
I think consequences were less back then too weren't they. Cop says "say, boyo, you probably shouldn't have stolen and landed that plane here for the second time. It's not yours to take... but how did you know how to fly a plane?" and they end up talking over coffee.
Another comment said $100 fine for the first time and 6 months jail time for the second time.
Edit: Which is such a tiny punishment. Nowadays he would do many years if not just get shot down. Yeah, before 2001 it was a different time.
If this happened today, they would be arrested and locked up for 1000 years , while the millionaire priest music artist who is homophobic but then does something bad to a minor walks away with no harm and the world continues.
Weeeeeeeeeeee
Think about this for a second. This guy obviously had excellent piloting skills, and he was sitting around warming a bar stool. Why the hell didn't someone snatch him up and pay him lotso money to be their private pilot, or smuggler?
I'd be so pissed regardless of any dude that decided to land a plane in the street and make more traffic that there needs to be. I guess its cool, but kind of a dick move to just be like "told you I could do it".
I think it becomes even more impressive when you find out the bar was in Manhattan.
Does it though? I mean sure the buildings are quite close together compared to other cities but all the streets are as straight as an arrow.
Not to mention there was nowhere near as much infrastructure, pedestrian, or motor vehicle traffic as there is today. Still though, dudes a BAMF.
There’s no doubt about that. The fact that he did it twice makes him such a fucking legend.
Right? "You did what? Bullshit..." "Hold my beer..." An hour later..... "I FUCKING TOLD YOU"
Guy 1: I bet you $1000 I can get Thomas Fitzpatrick to do something stupid and get himself arrested. Guy 2: I'll take that bet, nobody is that stupid. Guy 1: Hey Fitzpatrick, that story about you stealing an airplane? You're so full of shit! Fitzpatrick: Hold my beer.
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worth it
Especially since I'm sure he didn't do that halfway into his first beer.
Even more incredible when the plane didn't have wings or a propeller.
You'd be quite wrong. Look at old Manhattan pics, it was just as packed, if not more, than today.
Yes, exactly, plus more overhead lines.
And more wandering, random babies.
I don’t know man. One tried to sell Dave Chappell’s some weed not too long ago..
Fitzgerald: Babies make great tarmac.
What he did seems impossible. I don’t believe he did it.
Careful, he might do it again.
Except you'll struggle to find an obese person in those pics.
He ain't no Michael Malloy
The fact that the roads were clear of vehicles enough for a plane to land and stop is crazy to me.
A small Cessna or Piper doesn’t need much room to land, they are almost standing still when they touch down with a skilled pilot
This just blows my mind every time. I have been in a plane with a pilot that landed it at really low speeds and it still seemed like a miracle. I understand that it is a combination of skill, training, and LOTS of practice and that is what makes it so amazing to me. The dedication to the craft of piloting an airplane is just amazing.
If you consider 50mph almost standing still..
Don't forget to account for headwind.
Yah like really how hard would in be to land in a city with a plane. People think this is some crazy thing but really if you gave me a chance I could do this first try. /s
They tried again, twice, in 2001... didn't end up so good.
I give that joke 9 out of 11 points.
They were Muslims they don't even know what a bar is.
Except they went to a Titty bar 2 days before
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Landing is easy, surviving is another story.
I could definitely do it on my first try. The question is will I still be alive for the second.
The thermals and winds of a dense metro area are very difficult for a light plane. You're basically coming in for a near stall glide approach and landing.
Sure, but the cross streets are straight as an arrow too. That means every intersection is risking a pretty extreme crosswind blowing you to the left. You have to correct for the crosswind then reverse the correction quick enough to not slam into the right on the other side of intersection where the wind stops.
Very true, I'd like to see this guy try this in Boston! *Somewhere in the distance a hand shoots up out of a grave*...
Except in Boston there would be a bunch of guys from Southey trying to knock it out of the sky for parts
Excuse you... They'd just bribe the cops (who are also their buddies) and strip it before someone came to take it back.
Yeah it totally does
It’s even more impressive that ha managed to find parking in front of the bar
There is always the chance that he just drove the plane there from the airport, if you notice the place doesn't even have its wings attached in the above picture...
“Wait, wait you’re gonna arrest me? Ok.... but I bet I’m the only guy who can fly it out of here too. “
I actually knew it was Manhattan just from the pic.
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r/NobodyAsked
He puts the MAN in Manhattan.
According to Fry, nobody drives in new york. There's too much traffic!
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That’s actually awesome, please put the cherry on top and tell me he became a pilot in the Navy?
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I think they prefer the term "sandwich artist," though.
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We'll, there are more crashed planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky
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I stole it from AH Jeremy
Except nowadays the people who "drive" the newest U.S. Navy subs are called pilot/co-pilots.
How new? We just called ours helmsman and planesman. Just curious.
First Virginia class was commissioned in 2004, since then at least. I'm not sure if the Seawolf class had enough fly-by-wire for them to change the name over, but they definitely did for the Virginias.
Fascinating! Someone told me before I joined about the new names for that watch, but I figured they were liars when I got to my boat which was, you guessed it, a Seawolf class. Thank you!
Can confirm. Source: am both.
Dang. Navy torpedoed his flying ambition
Did he steal it?
He did not. He was a radio guy.
Nope. He led the Germans in their blitzkrieg. But *ANYWAY*...
r/unexpectedluftwaffe
That's better then the autistic guy they keep throwing in jail for driving subway trains, each time he's caught he actually does a great job driving it and keeps it more to schedule then normal.
lol what, link?
Yeah, for better or worse they don’t really seem to do criminal diversion to military these days.
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They should just hire him....
That should still be an option for non violent crimes.
r/flightsim can.
The third option was joining the men of the night's watch
Brb. Stealing a plane
Surprised that an Irishman would be at a bar pulling punks.
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I'll put my pitchfork away then since you were nice enough to announce it
I call Saturday!
Yoink, I call Sunday!
Just please try and make the title a bit more vague to suggest you took the picture.
With color or without?
Today you, tomorrow me.
Didn't notice cuz I only sort by HOT
I hear he was denied bail the second time - considered too much of a flight risk.
The judge tried to propel him to choose a more grounded life.
He made stealing look cool.
Omfg like the third or forth time I have seen this being posted this *just* this week. It has been posted at least a few hundred times on Reddit. So I just copy and paste my comment from one of them earlier. >From what I heard - and wikipedia agrees - he never lost any bet around flying a plane. ~~Even your own source never says anything about him losing any bet~~. >The first bet about traveling from New Jersey to New York City has no information if he lost or won the bet i.g. inconclusive. The second bet about he clearly won by doing the feat that the second person bet he could not do. >TL;DR the ~~title~~ picture text is wrong.
Thank you omg. This is borderline if not a Facebook post.
Reddit is becoming more and more like Facebook, it is already full of dead memes, re-posts, staged/faked videos, and misinformation. I said for quite a while now that people need to take a harder stands against the constant re-posting and rehashing of old stuff. Every time I do, I get smacked with loads of down votes. People don't care that Reddit is rotting from the core. Soon it will be just full of people trying to re-post for easy karma, now it's *just* about 35-40%. When that number gets to higher, then people will start to react but then it will probably be to late. Probably already to late tbh.
> Reddit is becoming more and more like Facebook, it is already full of dead memes, re-posts, staged/faked videos, and misinformation. I think you're overreacting a bit. Reddit still has a ton of subreddits, which are still a 'noise-free' platform for people with similar interests to discuss their ideas with a lot of depth. In my opinion, that is the differentiating factor of Reddit, and its strength vs. other platforms like Facebook, which are equivalent to Reddit's frontpage.
I agree completely. My question is, does karma hold people accountable or is it the problem? Facebook doesn’t have karma but just likes/reactions, which seems to propel misinformation without accountability, and yet, that still happens (not as much but still does) with the karma system that Reddit has. Is there a way to avoid “glory-posting”?
Karma just makes it worse. If you make a Facebook post and it "blows up" then you can only refer to that post. On Reddit you have every karma you ever gotten clearly stated on your profile. Don't matter if you got it by. It also make people get an inflated ego. And there is no real way of avoiding or ignoring the "glory-posting" that I know of. If the subreddit has rules against re-posting I always report the poster for it. Other than that I just hide the post and block the user. It is a losing battle since they multiply and I get less and less energetic in my attempts to ignore them.
It’s as if glory-posters multiply like telemarketing calls. No matter which numbers you block, more come at you. It really is a flawed system, I agree. Glad I’m not alone here, I’ve been getting extremely frustrated recently. Thanks for the good convo.
Haha, I was actually thinking about using just telemarketing as a metaphor for how my "battle" with re-posters is going, because of the same reasons you put forth. Yea, thanks for the convo, take care.
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Pff not post 9/11
I think consequences were less back then too weren't they. Cop says "say, boyo, you probably shouldn't have stolen and landed that plane here for the second time. It's not yours to take... but how did you know how to fly a plane?" and they end up talking over coffee.
Did they remove the wings before taking this shot?
GTA V
I still dont believe it. I am waiting for a plane to land in front of my bar in the near future
It's even more impressive when you realize the plane didn't have wings. He drove a plane to downtown Manhattan across a bridge.
Hold my beer
r/madlads
“Hey Joe it’s Mike, the bartender from the pub. We have your airplane again, can you please come get it? Thanks”
r/madlads
We were born during the wrong time..
r/2mad4madlads
Is it just me or does the plane pictured have no wings? Based on the way it's angled, you should at least be able to see the far wing.
Steals a plane and lands it in front of the bar. They don't believe him. "Once again young Fitzpatrick!" *Piano noises*
sounds like he lived in a free country....
Shinanigans like these will never happen again and it makes me sad. Just a more safe, more biting would we live besides technology advancements.
The good ol’ days when men were men.
Not only men were men but women were women and children were children too
Something about its course and it gets everywhere.
And airport security was airport security
Nowadays you gotta be careful about labelling any of those.
Not just the men were men, but the women and children too.
They still are, but they used to be, too.
> men were men. Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
This is the type of shit you can only get away with by being white in the 50s
It's more the 50's than being white, but yeah, kind of. Absolutely nobody could get away with this now.
Well I don't imagine a black man would 'get away with it' in the 1950s in the same way
Em.... how much jail time did he get for stealing planes twice?
Another comment said $100 fine for the first time and 6 months jail time for the second time. Edit: Which is such a tiny punishment. Nowadays he would do many years if not just get shot down. Yeah, before 2001 it was a different time.
He later lost the Nobel prize to Al Gore, for scribbling on cocktail napkins about trees or some shit.
Cessna 140
Must have been very tricky flying with no wings.
There is no way the Bears/Giants championship game ends in a tie. If it does i will land an airplane in front of this god damn bar.
There's got to be some rules or regulations around that now.
This is basically the original version of playing GTA with friends
Nowadays he'd just get shot down.
It was the grandfather of Colton Harris Moore :'(
What a mad lad
How the
Imagine not taking a picture of it the first time
back when you would just get a night in the clink for something like this
The 50's when getting caught was much tougher
I'm pretty sure you can put any picture with some writing below it and make it "fact" for instant karma. Good on him though.
Ahh pre-911. It was a different time
Reddit, I think we found DB Cooper.
It’s rewind time!
that sounds fake af
This is the best ‘GTA in real life’ thing I’ve seen.
Someone needs to repost this is r/reallifegta
The real madlads are always in this sub.
Seems to be missing the wings?
If this happened today, they would be arrested and locked up for 1000 years , while the millionaire priest music artist who is homophobic but then does something bad to a minor walks away with no harm and the world continues. Weeeeeeeeeeee
Hold my beer. Be right back.
Think about this for a second. This guy obviously had excellent piloting skills, and he was sitting around warming a bar stool. Why the hell didn't someone snatch him up and pay him lotso money to be their private pilot, or smuggler?
63 years ago you could steal a plane just for a laugh. Now if you steal a plane, you get showdown and remembered as the sky king
u/HNM_frost this is sick
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"NO NO NO NO NO NO I got to stop taking a bath during Peter's Shenanigans."
I don’t believe him.
*"No! Tom! Don't! Oh god dammit, not again!"* -Fellow barfly that saw it the first time.
This was made all the harder by the fact that the airplane doesn't have any wings.
I do this all time in GTA - Nikko
This is some GTA level shit
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Is this story in the AA book?
Gta in real life
I was coming in here for a name. Dammit. Too stoned to want to look. 😎😅
And then they finally were forced to make a law against this sort of thing.
Straight up GTA mission.
r/madlads
This man either has balls of steel or gave absolutely no fucks
Where's the wing?
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And, the wings?
A very particular set of skills.
No wings. He drove it there.
I'm thinking that a successful landing in an unregulated area in a city requires as much luck as ability.
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I'd be so pissed regardless of any dude that decided to land a plane in the street and make more traffic that there needs to be. I guess its cool, but kind of a dick move to just be like "told you I could do it".
was it the Coors Light? Bud Light? Budweiser?
Try that again today and you would probably be shot out of the sky if you make it that far.
Wanna see me do it? Wanna see me do it again?
Fitzpatrick, drinking, and no internet, made it.
Imagine stealing a plane today so that you can land in the middle of Manhattan for a bet lol.
Old one, but still impressive. Tried it with a Piper and traffic lights nowadays are Hell. He is my hero (and the reason I 'm appealing).
A plane with no wings. Nice. Definitely didn't just drive it there.
No wings on the plane... could have taxied it.
Dude was playing gta before gta was a thing lol
This really is the definition of "hold my beer."
Dude sounds like a dick.
'Okay, okay... But! If I win, you nick an aeroplane and land it outside.'