Fight erupts on MIA-bound flight
Sep 27, 2006, 5:56 am
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Fight erupts on MIA-bound flight
The American Airlines flight originating in Lima, Peru landed as scheduled in Miami just after 6 a.m. Police were waiting for the rowdy passengers, a 56-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, at the gate.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...printstory.jsp
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...printstory.jsp
Sep 27, 2006, 11:31 am
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One too few meal boxes stocked is my guess.
Combined with one too many rum bottles.
Combined with one too many rum bottles.
Sep 27, 2006, 11:36 am
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Or maybe a fight over who got the last chicken dinner?
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Sep 27, 2006, 11:45 am
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Okay, it's fess up time: who else started reading the article and, at the first mention of a 20-yr-old and a 56-yr-old involved, assumed the younger guy was the one being a jackhole? 
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
Sep 27, 2006, 11:48 am
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Originally Posted by pinniped
Okay, it's fess up time: who else started reading the article and, at the first mention of a 20-yr-old and a 56-yr-old involved, assumed the younger guy was the one being a jackhole?
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
Sep 27, 2006, 11:54 am
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The FBI said that about two hours before the flight was scheduled to land, the Japanese man elbowed the passenger sitting next to him. Federal authorities said the Japanese man didn't think the passenger should be using an iPod in flight and complained that he smelled. He then poured perfume on the man, poured water on himself and vomited in the aisle, authorities said.
No charges were filed, but authorities said American Airlines denied boarding the Japanese man a day earlier because he had been behaving strangely.
http://www.local10.com/news/9944114/detail.html
Sep 27, 2006, 12:03 pm
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Originally Posted by pinniped
Okay, it's fess up time: who else started reading the article and, at the first mention of a 20-yr-old and a 56-yr-old involved, assumed the younger guy was the one being a jackhole?
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
It hardly sounds like a "fight" - basically the older guy was harassing the kid and he summoned the FA.
Unless the 20 year old jockey laid into the older jackhole with a few well-placed punches (that the witnesses either forgot to mention or the journalist left out), I don't see any evidence of a "fight." The headline on the website says "near brawl." No real evidence of that, either. The older jackhole did elbow the poor jockey "violently," but nothing in the story that the jockey gave the old man what he had comin' at that point.
W O W. Glad I wasn't on that flight.
Sep 27, 2006, 12:08 pm
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He then poured perfume on the man, poured water on himself and vomited in the aisle, authorities said.
Sep 27, 2006, 12:18 pm
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Originally Posted by Blumie
See it was all just a misunderstanding. Isn't this ritual -- the perfume, the water, the vomit -- all just a Japanese sign of respect?
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Sep 27, 2006, 12:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Blumie
the perfume, the water, the vomit
Sep 27, 2006, 12:26 pm
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interesting since Japanese culture is usually well-mannered. Maybe he was drunk? 
Sep 27, 2006, 12:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Blumie
How many times does the press actually get these things right?
Sep 27, 2006, 12:31 pm
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Originally Posted by cali99boy
Maybe he was drunk?
Alcohol - the source of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
Sep 27, 2006, 12:37 pm
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Have you ever been to Osaka? I'm sure you'd confuse it with Mexico City.
Originally Posted by cali99boy
interesting since Japanese culture is usually well-mannered. Maybe he was drunk?
Sep 27, 2006, 12:38 pm
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Originally Posted by cali99boy
Maybe he was drunk?