Man angry about overbooked flight strips off and throws naked tantrum in middle of the airport for an HOUR!

[A HERETIC I AM]

Travelers at a North Carolina airport had a rude awakening on Wednesday morning when a man stripped naked to protest at his flight being overbooked.
According to witnesses at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the man was attempting to get on board a US Airways flight to Jamaica.
One witness said he heard a man yelling and sounding very angry. An airport employee told her that the man was angry over his flight.

The pics at the link below are pixellated, but funny!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3090446/Nothing-declare-except-nudity-Man-angry-overbooked-flight-strips-throws-naked-tantrum-middle-airport-HOUR.html

Between this guy and the woman biting the dangly bits off the dog, one wonders if there is something in the water in the South this week!

[mythology]

1. Because that's going to help

Idiot.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. It worked for me!

Gotta love the fact that he didn't get charged.

Lesson? If you want to get naked in an airport, use Charlotte.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Thank GOD it wasn't Peter Buck...

[In_The_Wind]

4. Yeah. This is gonna be one helluva summer.

[NYC_SKP]

5. I blame the New Math.

Really, all of these nutty events have been happening more and more since schools adopted the New Math.

:harumph:

[Cooley Hurd]

19. ...

[NYC_SKP]

21. Could have been worse. He could have bitten the testicles off a pit bull, thrown a trike at people,

...and then had a family member bury him with a garden hose for breathing so that the cops wouldn't find him.

Yeah, that's the New Math:

Woman Arrested For Biting Off Pit Bull’s Testicles (MADISON, West Virginia)



“Eventually she bit Pedro’s acorns clean off right there in the front yard,” a witness said. “Pedro hightailed it screeching like a wild Indian and when I tried to subdue Audrey, she knocked me out with an old tricycle.”

Realizing the police had been called and knowing she had time to hide (it is a 45 minute drive to her house), Mrs. Ranch cut off a length of garden hose, dug a hole and had her son help bury her. She used the garden hose as a breathing apparatus.

Officers from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office arrived, unburied Ranch and arrested her without incident.

Ranch explained her actions to police: “My son ate all the meat and I had warned him if he ate all the meat, I’d eat his dog.”

The dog underwent emergency surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. Ranch is facing charges of aggravated animal cruelty.

http://seriouslyforreal.com/more/woman-arrested-for-biting-off-pit-bulls-testicles-madison-west-virginia/

Happy Friday!

[hifiguy]

25. If that terrifying mug didn't scare the dog off

that was one BRAVE dog.

ETA - I knew I'd seen that face somewhere before

[Quayblue]

31. omg

[jberryhill]

6. I usually keep my briefs on unless the flight is cancelled

A one hour delay, and my shirt comes off.

Basic traveling sense.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. LOL...of course!

How else would you do it?

Unless, like me, you eschew underwear. One reason I haven't flown for nearly 6 years now.

[jberryhill]

23. I used to eschew underwear

But I decided to finally break down and buy some dental floss.

[JaneyVee]

7. Hate when that happens.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Gotta love this quote;

'He stood there for a moment and then started taking off his clothes. I ain't never seen nothing [like that] in my life.'
(snip)

'I was not expecting to see nothing like that, I've never seen nothing like that at Charlotte Douglas airport. Never,' she said. 'And that's when I got out my phone and started taking pictures.'

Should have slid it to video, silly person!

[Rex]

9. I usually leave my socks on, that way easier to moonwalk on polished floors.

Might as well give em a show!

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. .....

[Sancho]

12. I know how he feels!!

[winstars]

13. He would be dead if he were....BLACK IMHO that is.... nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Maybe he was going to be late for his pole dancing audition.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. Maybe everyone should do that

when the airlines overbook flights. I don't even understand overbooking---they know how many seats are on a plane, right? They charge you for the ticket if you book it since all the tickets I see are "non-refundable", so even if you are a no-show, they still have the money. You can't add some seats to accommodate overbooking. So....how can you overbook?

I would have been just as pissed if I was headed to Jamaica and they told me I couldn't go. And I would also have had no charges filed, because I could come up with some mental issues as well.

Actually, it is kind of sad that this happened to this man.

[Exilednight]

16. I travel through that airport regularly. I never understood why

Airlines book more seats than they have.

[KamaAina]

18. Because they know some people are going to no-show

and flying with a handful of empty seats would cut into their precious profit margin, don'tcha know?

[Johonny]

22. My favorite real life example was

I was booked into row 37. The plane had only 35 rows. I was thus bumped for purchasing a ticket for a seat that did not physically exist on their plane. I got to sit around all day until another unfortunate soul missed their connection and thus left me a real seat. American Airline companies and our Airports are horrible experiences. I've traveled to many places in the world and many places are less efficient (but usually very friendly). I really have never been to any place else that hates people like the airline industry in this country. I mean they really give off the vibe that they hate me from the minute I arrive at the airport until the second I escape. The seat BS is just part of the horrible hate filled experience.

[Exilednight]

32. I always compare the airport to the bank. I hate automated check in via an

ATM style terminal. I feel like I'm paying for a service I don't get.

[sendero]

30. It is an idiotic solution for a real problem....

... what airlines SHOULD do is book every seat exactly. Don't show? Then you just paid for travel you did not take. Why should folks who are doing the right thing (buying a ticket and showing up) pay for the mistakes of the no-shows?

[KamaAina]

17. Florida Man moved to North Carolina?

[Cooley Hurd]

20. Out of the frying pan...

[hifiguy]

24. At least he wasn't carrying any concealed weapons.

[Cal Carpenter]

26. From the link: "they won't charge him as he 'was suffering from a medical issue' "

Just in case anyone wants to reconsider joking about someone's physical or mental health problems.

Personally I think it's just sad

[cbayer]

27. I know how he feels!

Many a time I have had the almost overwhelming urge to do the same thing.

But I have spared the public of such a sight, and they should be grateful.

[deathrind]

29. I have worked in various...

Fields of customer services from being a bartender to taxi driver to desk clerk but my time spent as a CSR for an airline takes the top spot for dealing with customer temper tantrums.