© Dave Schneider/FacebookThe guitar case for a 1965 Gibson ES-335 is seen stuck in a Delta gate.
It was a musician's worst nightmare.
At least that's how Dave Schneider, guitarist and singer for Hanukkah-themed rock band The LeeVees, described it when his guitar - a 1965 Gibson ES-335 - got jammed in an elevator by baggage handlers at a Detroit airport.
Schneider was traveling with fellow LeeVees guitarist Adam Gardner from Portland, Maine, to St. Petersburg, Fla., for a gig last month at a conservative temple when their flight was diverted to Rochester, N.Y., due to bad weather, causing them to miss their connection in Philadelphia, Pa. They then drove to Buffalo, N.Y., to hop on a plane destined for Detroit, Mich., where they planned to make a connecting flight to Tampa, Fla.
While boarding in Buffalo, Schneider says he asked Delta staffers not to check in the vintage guitar - which he estimates is worth about $10,000 - and allow him to carry it on the plane and place it in an available space, as he did on the flight from Portland.
"I've always carried it on," Schneider, who also tours as the lead singer of the hockey-themed rock group the Zambonis, told Yahoo News. "Never been a problem before."
Comment: "Adult sexual attraction to children is part of the continuum of human sexuality" ... And yet the article's launchpad is the Savile scandal and all that unearthed (or made public anyway) about 'pedophiles' (ahem, psychopaths) in power in the UK. To begin with a reference to a psychopathic predator like Savile and then launch into a discussion about adult attraction to children misses the point, and gives a false impression of the real problem. A more objective psychological basis for understanding the type of 'pedophilia' apparent in the likes of Jimmy Savile is that it is symptomatic of an overall character disorder that places its carrier within the psychopathic spectrum. These 'pedophiles' are wired differently because they are psychopaths, not because they are pedophiles. Although humans are routinely subject to deviant thought patterns in an increasingly degenerate world, there is nothing human about being a sexual deviant and predator.
It is interesting to read some of the comments below this article on The Guardian. Most readers focused on the 'grey area' issues surrounding sexual relationships between young and older teenagers, apparently completely oblivious to the real hardcore pedocriminality that routinely implicates some very famous names in very senior positions of power in all Western countries and beyond. Whatever about the morality of 'consensual' sex between a 20-year-old and a 15-year-old, at the rotten heart of the problem lies institutionalised pedophilia on a level most could not even imagine.
Read Caricature of Love by Hervey Cleckley and Beyond Dutroux to understand the true nature of those who predate on children and other vulnerable members of society.