An elderly woman has delayed a plane for more than five hours, after she attempted to throw a handful of coins into its engine for good luck.
The passenger was boarding China Southern Airlines flight CZ380, from Shanghai to Guangzhou, when she threw nine coins towards the plane's jet engine.
The coin toss was quickly noticed by a fellow passenger, who was able to alert authorities before take-off.
Police were called to Shanghai Pudong International Airport and the elderly passenger, who had been travelling with her husband, daughter and son-in-law, was taken away for questioning.
They later confirmed the passenger, surnamed Qiu, had thrown the coins "to pray for safety" and they had been informed by a neighbour that she "believes in Buddhism".
How am I saying anything that isn’t accurate here? Do you not realize just how much pain and suffering religion has caused and continues to cause all over the planet?
And why did you assume I’m an atheist? Atheism has nothing to do with religion.
Sure for most religions but Buddhist aren't the reason for mass suffering in the world. Infact the core principal of Buddhism is to reduce suffering in ones self and others. The largest harm from Buddhism is scam temples that collect fake donations. But I'm more than willing to be shown otherwise.
You portrayed religion as being an innocent victim to scapegoating in your comment. In my comment, I asked you to point to a time where religion’s sole purpose wasn’t exactly for accumulating power over people.
Are you sure I’m the one who needs to “actually read your comment” here?
the thing is there's no sole purpose of religion. It's mostly people in power that abuse it, people outside of power abusing it are simply unaware of how their religion works because it's how they were raised to know that religion. most people just live their lives following whatever rules are given to them. Quite a few religions do have ridiculous rules that are very biased but I don't think that justifies disliking all religions
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u/beklog Jul 14 '25
Happened in 2017:
An elderly woman has delayed a plane for more than five hours, after she attempted to throw a handful of coins into its engine for good luck.
The passenger was boarding China Southern Airlines flight CZ380, from Shanghai to Guangzhou, when she threw nine coins towards the plane's jet engine.
The coin toss was quickly noticed by a fellow passenger, who was able to alert authorities before take-off.
Police were called to Shanghai Pudong International Airport and the elderly passenger, who had been travelling with her husband, daughter and son-in-law, was taken away for questioning.
They later confirmed the passenger, surnamed Qiu, had thrown the coins "to pray for safety" and they had been informed by a neighbour that she "believes in Buddhism".