The internet porn defense, or “I was just safeguarding my AdultCheck account.”

Prior to starting Hawaiian intra-island low fare carrier Go, Mesa Airlines considered acquiring either Aloha or Hawaiian Airlines. Now that Hawaiian is back in front of a bankruptcy judge, they’re claiming their failures are a result of ‘unfair’ competition from Go, that Mesa pretended to be interested in an acquisition in order to learn their business strategies and use the data against them.

(Of course, Hawaiian’s track record underscores the value of their strategies, ahem.)

But Mesa had to answer the charges, and apparently Mesa’s CFO destroyed some computer files relevant to the case. Mesa had to answer in court for this, explaining that the deleted files were an accident, their CFO was just trying to erase all the porn off his computer. The other stuff was just an unfortunate byproduct.

Yeah. Sure. But props for creativity.