Originally Posted by
DKNATL
MCI-ATL 01/21/2010
He played stupid with me, so I told him that smokeless tobacco isn't allowed on flights and if a flight attendant caught him, he probably would be walking off the plane with a U.S. Marshal escort.
You told him wrong. U.S. Marshal Service is not the response agency to in-flight incidents. (Surely, you didn't mean a FAM? As in, not affiliated with USMS? As in, not about to blow cover for something so trivial?)
In fact, this isn't a law enforcement problem at all. There is no law against smoking aboard aircraft. There is a regulation against it. Big difference. You don't get arrested for violating regulations, although civil penalties are possible. And, since he wasn't smoking, you didn't even have a regulation violation - at most it was a violation of airline rules.
What induced you to want to enforce non-existent laws by exercising self proclaimed authority?