Six more examples of air traffic controllers asleep on the job have surfaced recently. Ray LaHood said in a press interview: “We’re not sitting around trying to make up excuses!” Yes, we know: you’re all lying around sleeping! Some department head even resigned over this. Apparently he was to blame for solitary graveyard-shift workers getting sleepy on the (really boring, lonely) job. But we know it wasn’t LaHood, because he couldn’t even do that right if he spiked their coffee with Ambien.
There’s a sleep aid product called Lunesta that had a tag line of: “Get to sleep on the wings of Lunesta.” (or something like that.) It struck me that this situation might make a fun parody ad for the FAA air traffic control which says: “Fall asleep fast on the wings of wondering-where-the-hell-you-are airplanes!”
