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Extra, Extra: Ship-Borne Sickness, Golf-Loving Crocodiles, and In-Flight Amorousness
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- When you’re wintering in Toronto, it can be difficult to remember that even people travelling to places that don’t have regular extreme cold weather alerts, and extremely high wind alerts, and extreme snowfall alerts can confront their share of unpleasantness. A case in point: the Royal Caribbean cruise line’s Explorer of the Seas was forced to cease its cruising after 564 of its 3,050 passengers came down with a gastrointestinal illness involving diarrhea and vomiting.
- Playing golf in gloriously sunny Mexico? That can also be hazardous, it appears. While hitting the links at a course near Cancun, a Toronto man found himself approached by a crocodile, which then made a concerted effort to drag him into a nearby lagoon. The crocodile eventually let go (after being struck with both golf clubs and a golf cart), but proceeded to hang about for a good hour, while the course, obviously, remained open for business.
- And domestic flights can offer up their own kind of eventfulness—in the case of flight 610 from Toronto to Halifax, the kind that involves a 24-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man engaging in an unspecified “sexual act.” Concerned fellow passengers reported the pair, and RCMP officers were there to greet them when they landed. The two were not pleased to be so greeted, and the woman ended up kicking a police officer.
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