Continental keeps crash passengers away from the booze
Categories: News  Continental Airlines probably should have
known better.  After all, the airlines have long understood that
pacification of terrified passengers in a time of crisis keeps a
bad situation from getting worse. The purpose behind those
oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling of the plane? Oxygen
gets you high, making potential crash victims, in the words of
Fight Club 's Tyler Durden, "calm as Hindu cows."  So why on
earth did Continental spirit the shaken passengers of Flight
(term used loosely) 1404 to their booze-serving Presidents Club
Lounge in the DIA terminal and then keep them away from the
booze?  According to Denver resident, Twitter aficionado and
crash survivor Mike Wilson, as of 8:21 p.m. on December 20,
Continental Airlines officials had taken passengers who weren't
in immediate need of medical attention to "the presidents club
until they can sort everything out. Won't even serve us drinks."
Bad form, Continental.  Wilson, who