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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
(9,527 posts)Idiot.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)Gotta love the fact that he didn't get charged.
Lesson? If you want to get naked in an airport, use Charlotte.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Really, all of these nutty events have been happening more and more since schools adopted the New Math.
:harumph:
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...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:
Eventually she bit Pedros 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 Sheriffs 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, Id 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
(33,688 posts)that was one BRAVE dog.
ETA - I knew I'd seen that face somewhere before
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)A one hour delay, and my shirt comes off.
Basic traveling sense.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)How else would you do it?
Unless, like me, you eschew underwear. One reason I haven't flown for nearly 6 years now.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But I decided to finally break down and buy some dental floss.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)(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
(65,616 posts)Might as well give em a show!
Sancho
(9,067 posts)winstars
(4,219 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)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
(9,359 posts)Airlines book more seats than they have.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and flying with a handful of empty seats would cut into their precious profit margin, don'tcha know?
Johonny
(20,817 posts)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
(9,359 posts)ATM style terminal. I feel like I'm paying for a service I don't get.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... 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
(78,249 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Just in case anyone wants to reconsider joking about someone's physical or mental health problems.
Personally I think it's just sad
cbayer
(146,218 posts)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.
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deathrind
(1,786 posts)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.