It was like a scene out of a very good or a very bad gay adult film. We’ll let you decide…
27-year-old JP Thorn says he was recently flying Delta from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Chicago. Moments after the plane landed, he turned on his cellphone to find he had a new notification on Grindr.
“I see you’re on my flight,” the message read. “Enjoy the ride to Chicago.”
The app said the man was 90 feet away. Immediately, Thorn went into panic mode.
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“My reaction was I knew I needed to get off this plane as fast as I can,” Thorn tells the NY Post. “I’ve had some weird experiences with proximity stuff on Grindr.”
That’s when Thorn noticed the message was sent 30 minutes earlier, during the middle of the 90-minute trip. And the man’s profile pic was a photo of the sky taken from a plane cockpit.
“My deductive reasoning led me to believe that he was the pilot,” Thorn says. “I messaged him back and he told me that he was one of the pilots.”
remember when my pilot messaged me on grindr at 30,000 feet in the air pic.twitter.com/0q7QNDX7MV
— JP (@emobandtshirt) November 25, 2018
“He asked me about our flight, how it was on the way, and [the conversation] was really standard,” Thorn recalls. “I said there was no turbulence, then he made a joke about turbulence.”
Thorn says he would have met up with the handsome aviator, who he describes as “a nice guy”, but he had to catch a connecting flight to Nashville. He has since deleted the app and lost touch with him.
“I meet up with people all the time from Grindr,” Thorn says. “I think I totally would have met him for coffee.”
Coffee. Riiiight.
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Gives a whole new meaning to the old ad “Fly the friendly skies”……:-p
Brian
Irresponsible text, irresponsible outing, and tacky blog post. People forget how quick and widespread the internet is.
fur_hunter
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manhattanroyalty
Agreed!
Chrisk
Is meeting for coffee a new term for hooking up?
fur_hunter
Yes….especially if the text reads….MEATING. AHAHAHH HEHEHEHEHE
AndThenTheresMax
It’s like Karen Black said in Airport 75, “Who’s flying the plane?! There’s no one left to fly the plane! Oh god help us!”
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IanHunter
I would have definitely met him after the flight.
SactoMan
Why? Why is this even here? And seriously girl, if you are going to be on Grindr and panic that there is somebody 70 feet from you, you best stay off the apps. That is it’s single one purpose in the world, to tell you who is close to you.
pharaon.em.joe
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! Now i am going on JP thorn twitter account and telling him just that! You should too.
manhattanroyalty
Drag him!! People are doing ANYTHING for some attention.
revcar
So basically he went from I have to get out of here fast to I would have totally had coffee is all based on the fact that he was the pilot? Yet he didn’t get coffee… even after he knew… so why even say it? This whole thing just seems odd. You either would or wouldn’t. He didn’t so why say you would?
DarkZephyr
Yeah, this was a dumb post. And to turn a grindr conversation into headline news? OMG lol
jlew64
He hooks up regularly on Grindr, yet he’s freaking out because someone sent him a message? Isn’t that the goal? And thanks QUEERTY for using the same stock photo of “a” hot pilot that you used in your last pilot story. Wonder how many clicked on the story thinking he was the pilot.
manhattanroyalty
They used that pic when they ran the story about the flight attendant who hooked up with a passenger and then lost his job.
Total click bait
Ed
As usual Queerty must sensationalize the headline to get people to click to their website. The Pilot did not hit on him nor did he say he hopes to give him an enjoyable ride!
Jboo
Hot! I’m flying out of St. Paul in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I get that pilot!
roddy
Damn….It never happens to me! 🙂
Billy Budd
I LOVE men in uniforms. I would definitely DO this pilot.
Me2
Why be on Grindr, mid-flight, if you don’t want the attention of people nearby? And why post it on social media? I really hate messy drama queens! He deserves to be banned from the apps.
Cap413
I like how Queerty is reporting on this story but hasn’t reported on Grindr’s president saying marriage is ‘between man and woman’. These social media titans continue to sell our souls and they’re all in bed together.
Lacuevaman
agree with you
DarkZephyr
He did say that but if you read the entire thing in context, he is pretty darn supportive of LGBT rights, and same sex marriage, particularly for somebody from his country. That being said, I don’t get why the former owners of Grindr sold the app to people from a conservative country like China. I guess it was all about that $$$.
d2d7
IMO, I don’t think he did anything wrong with what. They are both adults and both on Grinder. No harm no foul.
bunkybearusa
Wow,
He just probably got that pilot fired. Why couldn’t he just be flattered.. Plus anybody with a brain knows that pilots use auto pilot. This post and his fake worry about his safety just ruined this mans life. He will definitely get fired from his job and probably won’t get hired with another airline. For what…??? You landed safely didn’t you!
cherryalibi
I personally think it’s sweet. It’s almost like a fairytale. Even if nothing could happen, they could have become friends.
drewdna
Personally, I smell bullshit.
wwerts1
I be his fantasy ride I hope hes doing good now wondering where he is mow.