{"id":761,"date":"2006-02-20T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/20\/welcome-to-the-mile-high-club\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:12:06","slug":"welcome-to-the-mile-high-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/20\/welcome-to-the-mile-high-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Mile High Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8018'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/milhi.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"269\" align=\"left\">An Israeli pilot is offering to take couples on flights around Tel<br \/>\n        Aviv so that they can join the mile high club.<\/p>\n<p>      For less than $250, pilot Tamir Harpas will take adventurous lovers on<br \/>\n      a 45 minute flight complete with wine, chocolates and condoms.<\/p>\n<p>      He will take just one couple at a time and the pair can get as amorous<br \/>\n      as they like without fear of getting caught by air stewards.<\/p>\n<p>      However, there is one disadvantage &#8211; they are only separated from the pilot&#8217;s<br \/>\n      cockpit by a curtain, reports newspaper Jediot Aharonot.<\/p>\n<p> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1731395.html?menu=\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dowbrigade joined the Mile High Club at age 18 when we flew Icelandic<br \/>\n        Air from New York to London for summer vacation between high school and<br \/>\n        college with our first true lover, as well as<br \/>\n        a couple of buddies, Joey Weiss and Scott Small. It was 1971, Jim Morrison<br \/>\n        was getting ready to die in Paris, and we had great plans for spreading<br \/>\n        American-style anarchy across a blank old world canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, on the flight over, we just managed to eke out our membership<br \/>\n        from under one of those flimsy airline blankets, while on the flight<br \/>\n        back we managed a much more robust application in the lavatory during<br \/>\n        a late-night lull.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we only lasted 3 days in London before getting kicked out<br \/>\n        of the country for trying to smoke Turkish hashish from a Moroccan chillum<br \/>\n        while huddled behind a wrought-iron bench in the Queen&#8217;s Garden across<br \/>\n        from Buckingham Palace. Turns out we had arrived about an hour early<br \/>\n        for the<br \/>\n        changing<br \/>\n        of the guard, so like typical American air-head hippies on a road trip,<br \/>\n        we looked around for somewhere to get stoned before the big show. <\/p>\n<p>It was windy, so we found a small copse of lilac bushes behind a bench<br \/>\n        in this lovely and mostly empty garden across from the Palace. We were<br \/>\n        so intent on getting those pesky pebbles of resinous richness lit that<br \/>\n        we didn&#8217;t notice the Bobbies until they politely interrupted us to inquire<br \/>\n        what exactly we were up to.<\/p>\n<p>They were equally polite as they searched us, (to no avail. as the ever-omnivorous<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade had instantly ingested the evidence), and took down our names<br \/>\n        and passport numbers. We were politely informed that if we were found<br \/>\n        anywhere within Great Britain after 24 hours had elapsed we would be<br \/>\n        arrested and immediately detained.<\/p>\n<p>Only 18 and already running out of countries. It wasn&#8217;t the first nation<br \/>\n        to declare the Dowbrigade persona non grata, nor would it be the last.<br \/>\n        Later that night we left for Amsterdam&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli pilot is offering to take couples on flights around Tel Aviv so that they can join the mile high club. For less than $250, pilot Tamir Harpas will take adventurous lovers on a 45 minute flight complete with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/20\/welcome-to-the-mile-high-club\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}