WATCH: Bystanders at Dallas Airport stop antigay attack by piling on drunk bully

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/watch-bystanders-at-dallas-airport-stop-antigay-attack-by-piling-on-drunk-bully/

In the video embedded below, an apparently intoxicated man attacks another passenger who he believes is gay. Within seconds, a number of bystanders leap into action to take the attacker down and hold him until police can handcuff him and lead him away.

The video is dated Thursday, October 23, and shows an unnamed angry man bellowing and threatening another passenger who is wearing a jacket and a pink shirt.

A tall man in a black cowboy hat approaches and asks the angry man what he’s upset about.


“Queers!” the man shouted. “That’s what I’m upset about. This faggot right here.”

After a tense exchange, the angry man kicks the man in the pink shirt, then slaps at him and grabs his hair.

A number of people rush to intervene as the man is tackled and put on the floor.

The man in the cowboy hat can be heard saying loudly, “No way! No way, you motherfucker. You ain’t doin’ that fucking shit, motherfucker.”

Indeed.

Watch the video, embedded below via passenger Andrew Kennedy: (at link)

[TexasTowelie]

1. Here is the video itself.

#t=13

Glad that the cowboy and others intervened.

[frylock]

17. nice job, but i would've been wailing on that fucker's kidneys during that scrum..

he didn't receive nearly the beatdown he deserved. but big ups to everyone who intervened. that fucking coward kicked that guy in the balls.

[zappaman]

20. My thoughts precisely.

[nomorenomore08]

25. +2

[Aerows]

56. +3

[Logical]

80. Really, lynch mod beating? Classy! Nt

[JHB]

113. "Lynch mob"? Really?

Do we need to post photos of real lynch mobs in action so you can tell the difference? They're rather graphic.

[Logical]

115. Funny how when cops rough up people we hate it, but OK when we don't like someone. nt

[7962]

122. Well, this was NOT a lynch mob, but your point is correct. Just like hateful speech.

Many here have no problem calling Rwers every name in the book but have a hissy fit if THEY'RE called anything.

[heaven05]

125. Racist, hateful, homophobic RWers

DESERVE EVERY HATEFUL NAME IN THE BOOK. 'Others' are already called hateful names by RWers all the time. I have been called many ugly names and have scars on my knuckles to prove it. This clown deserves PAIN. I hope he gets bunches.

[Logical]

130. Names are fine. If you want to injure him you are worse than him. nt

[heaven05]

134. yeah, yeah, yeah

[rhett o rick]

150. The difference here is that no one attacked the A-hole until he started assaulting the

man in the pink shirt. Then they didn't "rough him up" they simply restrained him from hurting anyone. Who are you defending here?

[rhett o rick]

155. I only seem to have trouble following your posts.

I think the rudeness is unnecessary.

[rhett o rick]

157. When you start off with, "So you think...." I can guarantee things aren't going to go well.

I suggest you just ask a question like, "Do you think..." instead of making a strawman assumption?

I do not think they should have beat him. I think they acted responsibly. After your clarification, I agree with your post. I mistakenly thought you were addressing the OP.

[Logical]

158. Somehow many posters missed the post I was responding to. I apologize for the attitude! Sorry. nt

you can

[rhett o rick]

159. Ah jeeze

I hate it when people apologize. I think they only do it to make me feel bad about my own behavior. (Just kidding)

I also apologize for my attitude.

[Logical]

160. We are good!!! nt

[7962]

161. And even then he wasnt really "attacked", just stopped from continuing an assault.

They could have done a LOT more to him and been perfectly legal

[ScreamingMeemie]

127. I did not see what you saw. I saw a young "bull" (for lack of a better term)

being held back and taken down by three to four middle-to-older-aged men. I don't think any one of them could have taken down that raging young man on his own.

[Logical]

132. You missed the point I responded to......

I responded to the "i would've been wailing on that fucker's kidneys during that scrum he didn't receive nearly the beatdown he deserved"

I would of taken him down also. But beating him up is not needed. Let the court deal with it.

[Oktober]

144. That's just sad...

How long do you sit there and watch the drunken asshole attack another human being?

Grow a spine...

[joshcryer]

81. Would've been unfair to the wheelchair guy.

Too many people in there, I agree with you to an extent, but yeah, when that many people are involved I think it's best to just detain the bastard.

[cali]

91. ugh. he was taken down. and that's ALL that was needed. beating people up and wailing

on their kidneys is NOT a progressive value. ever.

[Logical]

120. +1000 It amazes me a progressive board wants to beat up someone they don't like. Sick! nt

[arcane1]

26. Is it wrong of me to wish everyone had pointed and laughed at him when the cuffs went on?

[TexasTowelie]

31. No.

There are probably a few who have some worse wishes too, but I won't take the liberty to go into detail. He should be charged with several crimes and get to spend some time in jail for that foolishness.

[Warpy]

90. No. Hearing someone in the crowd say "I'm with you on this one, nice job, guys" to the cops

probably made them feel better.

I know I'd rather deal with people high on just about every substance over alcohol.

[Number23]

34. "Beautiful smile. But you're a bad boy"

Oh my GOD.

And when dude was on the floor with two cops sitting on his back, he was STILL THREATENING THE MAN saying that "when he got up he was going to beat the shit out of him."

And yet, at the 2:37 mark, we hear a woman's voice say to this Neanderthal "beautiful smile, but you're a bad boy." Un FREAKING real.

[freshwest]

48. She was mocking him, she knew he couldn't do it. He made a damned fool of himself. Especially with

his remarks about the two black security men sitting on top of him. He was really showing his dumb ass to everyone.

They knew he was a buffoon and acted with professionalism. The whole thing went down pretty well, IMO. I think he tried to kick one of the officers, too.

Comment by the video uploader was good about how if what he did wasn't because he was drunk, but his normal behavior, the guy was going to have a hard road in life. I think his trouble is just beginning, too.

[Number23]

54. I don't think she was mocking him at all

This fool, without any provocation that we can see, kicked a man in his giblets after screaming that he was a "faggot." Got himself tackled by half an airport, damn near hog tied by the cops and in a drunken/high/idiotic stupor started smiling about all of this. What was mocking about saying he "had a beautiful smile but was a bad boy?" I am far more in line with the person who yelled at him to shut the hell up.

But perhaps I'm a bit jaded. I saw this story just a few minutes after reading this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/media-black-victims_n_5673291.html and I'm just sick of everything.

[freshwest]

60. Oh, I definitely thought about that too. But I didn't see him kick the first guy, just the second.

He should be charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, etc. I got kinda confused. The guy he was carrying on about was by the counter with blonde hair, a pink shirt and black clothes. I just saw him fussing at that point. But he kicked a guy wearing all black. Then and a guy in a pink shirt gets out of his wheelchair with latex gloves and helps the cops take him down... So at first that was confusing. I couldn't make it all out and I played it several times trying to see the sequence, the who and what was happening.

But yeah, if he'd been black, it would have been different, all SWAT, and I already knew that he was being given privilege. By the black officers, but I think they thought he was another racist asshole who would soon learn the error of his ways. They bent him over hard as they were taking him away and he knew he wasn't going to given a pass by that time.

I don't know what the woman was that talked to him, if a passenger or an officer. If I'd been there I'd have insulted him so he didn't know it, and he was too stupid to get it, but everyone else would. So I don't see approval of him, just trying to get his goat. But as I said, he was too egotistical to see it as anything else but being complimented.

I've lived in Texas, and that is a way of insulting an self-entitled person, just like calling them 'macho.' That one is used a lot talking to guys. They think it means they were manly, but that's not at all what is meant when it's said.

You use their own little buzz words to make them feel you're on their side and they just lap it up with pride. Stupid, arrogant guys don't know when a woman is really insulting them.

I get your take, but her words as the 'Keep on smiling, you asshole' routine they will never understand. Then laugh behind their back when they leave. It's about the balance of power in a situation, and that jerk had none, and will soon have a lot less.

The balance of power and the future do not belong to people like him. Deep down he knows it, just the same as everyone else in the airport lobby did. He's a loser, trying to own what he never had, except in his immature mind. A real Tea Party freakazoid at the end of his reign.

[cwydro]

62. Those were cops.

Not security.

[freshwest]

63. Sorry, I was thinking cops at first but wrote security as I couldn't see insignia. Small screen.

[cwydro]

72. I was just impressed how fast they got there.

That is a big airport.

[freshwest]

76. DFW, right? I've been there. It's huge.

[calimary]

140. He looks like the Jim Carrey character in "Dumb & Dumber."

Amazing. And he acted even dumber than that. Got his just desserts. And frankly I don't care if he was under the influence or not. That behavior was not appropriate NO MATTER WHAT. And so what if he was drunk at the time? That's still no excuse whatsoever.

[freshwest]

141. No, I stopped buying that excuse a long time ago, too.

He needs jail time.

[calimary]

145. Totally. Just imagine what would have happened if HE had had a gun?

But the NRA would fight to the death to make sure he had all the goddamn free access he wanted. Either for himself or from his friends who'd easily be able and probably very willing to get his guns for him. Because... SECOND AMENDMENT REMEDIES!!!!!!!!!

The "sanctity" of the fucking goddamn murderous Second Amendment. THAT's one "Amendment" that needs to be revisited, and thoroughly revised, updated, reconsidered, and rewritten. OR, maybe do what all those lovely "originalists" and "traditionalists" and other assholes with their fancy frank-luntz-approved word-manipulations - about the original intent. Well, if we're gonna go there, and consider ONLY original intent, we have to look at what Original Intent was armed with, back then in "Original Intent Land." What'd they fight with back then? Muskets and blunderbusses. So - as long as some Second Amendment lover insists on being armed, then let him or her have all the muskets and blunderbusses they can eat. Shouldn't that make the "originalists" and "traditionalists" happy?

I think we oughta take all those fancy-ass frank-luntz-approved word-manipulations and smash them back down these assholes' throats. Hijack them and turn them into OUR weapons, instead.

[Oktober]

149. Not everything is about your pet cause...

[TorchTheWitch]

78. This is how police work a gazillion times more often than any brutality

and the kind of shit they have to put up with every damn day.

I'm shocked that you missed what he said to those officers! Crazy drunk assbucket is an equal opportunity hater.

[barbtries]

102. i'm pretty sure i heard him say

"this is the country that lets black people like you walk around, you know what i'm saying" or something very close to that. an equal opportunity hater, ignorant thug, wow.
am i right? i don't want to have to watch it over.

[TorchTheWitch]

114. yep, essentially that's what he said

I thought it was somewhat even more disgusting than that, but that was the essence of it.

People like that... I don't know. They must have just fallen off the evolutionary track and got stuck back in the stone age or something.

[heaven05]

126. well, I don't agree

especially if the alleged perp is other than caucasian.

[Number23]

148. I heard what he said to the officers. I also heard what the crowd waiting in line said to him

One person asked "what happened?" and someone, almost casually, responds "altercation."

Then the "beautiful smile but you're a bad boy." Almost nonchalant, some in that crowd were about the whole thing.

[Marrah_G]

42. Very, very glad those people jumped in to help him

That video is disturbing

[davidpdx]

86. That was intense

The whole thing went down so fast you could barely see what happened. I agree it is a good think they intervened and did so quickly to keep him from getting out of hand and hurting someone.

[madokie]

109. I glad we finally are at a point where we as citizens

are fed up with this kind of behavior. I say throw the asshole in the slammer for a good long time
My hope is the gentleman who was assaulted is or will be OK. The perp, he can go straight to hell as far as I'm concerned.

[heaven05]

124. true example

of RW, Faux news mentality at work. I bet he was pissed two AA officers 'subdued' his stupid ass. I don't want to hear any, 'oh he was only drunk' shit. The liquor allows actions and thoughts that were there all the time not to to be suppressed. I hope the guy in the pink shirt causes him to face a lot of judicial grief and plenty of time in a jail cell. Only good place for thugs and animals like this. The fucking idiot. Amerikkka...geez

[MerryBlooms]

133. No Fly list. Ban him. n/t

[Rex]

2. How dumb are human animals? Charging at someone else over the color pink.

Yeah, pretty fucking dumb. To be clear, the man was angry over the color another man wore. A color.

THAT is human evolution going backwards at a fast pace imo!

[RKP5637]

3. Many roam the earth like defective robots with faulty programming. I think it's a fair number.

And then many humans are just plain stupid. There is no getting around that.

[Voice for Peace]

28. I think you are correct.

In fact I think not everybody walking around is a human being.

[RKP5637]

39. At this stage of the game I'm beginning to think similarly. n/t

[shenmue]

44. Yep

There are some replicants for certain.

[TorchTheWitch]

83. I think they just hung up in limbo on the evolution chart

Knuckle-dragging neanderthals.

"Pink bad. Drag you to cave and chew on bad pink shirt. Why now belly hurt. Ugg ugg. Me not know why bars block me cave. Me sit cry now. Ugg."

[hifiguy]

4. DEVO was right.

De-evolution is a thing.

[Rex]

5. I believe we see it going on right in front of us, like in the case of the OP.

Irrational thought seems to be their mainstay.

[byronius]

38. DEVO is always right.

They formed the band after witnessing the Kent State Massacre.

[daleanime]

51. I did not know that....

[uppityperson]

23. An acquaintance asked me how I could dress my infant son in a pink pj footie, wasn't I afraid he'd

turn out to be gay? I laughed in his face and asked if he really was that ignorant. Yup, putting pink on an infant or toddler will "turn him gay". As my well spoken pink rainsuited pink rubber booted 3 yr old boy said "pink is the best color there is. Boys can like pink too!"

[Marrah_G]

64. Did you know that it used to be exactly the opposite?

Pink was considered strong and light blue was considered dainty.

[uppityperson]

66. I didn't know that, that is funny. My theory for the reason most little kids like pink is it is the

color they saw first, from inside their mother. Light coming through her skin, past the capillaries, was pink. Then kids get to be a certain age and social stuff kicks in, moving many from pink to purple.

I didn't know they were that way though, funny.

[Marrah_G]

69. Found a good article.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/?no-ist

Fascinating.

[uppityperson]

71. Very interesting, thank you.

“The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”

[cntrygrl]

117. Who knows, maybe that person

is a devote follower of Pat Robertson. Ya think? LOL

[LiberalLovinLug]

142. I'm a straight male artist painter and I love pink

Pink is one of the most fascinating colours. It is its own colour.

What I mean by that is that if you mix white with any primary or secondary colour other than red you get a lighter version. Blue = light blue. Green = light green, etc....

If you mix Red with White you get Pink! You do not look at it as "light red". It is its own slightly bizarre other-worldly colour. It doesn't show up in an Earthly rainbow for instance. I'm actually a little envious that the gays and little girls have claimed, or been given, ownership of this strange beautiful powerful colour.

[cwydro]

73. Something was clearly wrong with that idiot.

Weird actually. Near the counters, and he had no bags or anything.

[Rex]

77. Maybe was drunk and let his inner asshole out.

Yeah shouting AMERICA is not a good answer as to why you assault someone. Thankfully he didn't have a bomb or gun.

[TorchTheWitch]

87. well, his beer gut and plumber's crack were sure out

Did you notice when the cops were walking him through the x-ray machine thing that a petite blonde woman appears that was trying to walk through the opposite way and turns around, sees his plumber's crack flapping out in the breeze and laughs her ass off.

After he sleeps off his drunk he probably won't remember a thing and wonder why he's in jail and who put all the tiny used sweat socks on all his teeth.

[47of74]

137. Looked to me like he was already in the sterile area.

To get in to that part you have to have a boarding pass or be working there. That asshole might not have had a carry on depending on where he was going or even a checked bag which might have gone on without him.

[Enthusiast]

98. Well, he suspected the guy might be gay so his attack was justified.

Idiocracy, it's coming.

[Rex]

131. Ouch my balls!

I think it is already here.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Looks like Lloyd from "Dumb and Dumber". Did he say "because America"?! That's congressional

potential right there.

[valerief]

14. Exactly! That's was his most comical line.

What a moron.

[Voice for Peace]

29. you're right! Tea Party special

[ReRe]

97. ala Louie Gomert

[Enthusiast]

100. ...

Pfft! [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[TlalocW]

7. My heroes have never been cowboys

But I salute that guy.

TlalocW

[seabeyond]

15. i was watching a video of a couple pretending to be lesbian. in restaurants in texas and NY.

not to compete, cause i do not believe in that, good in all places, and the bigoted in all places. but, in the restaurant in texas, the customers spoke out more than the ones in NY, when the actress waitress went into her bigoted rants against a lesbian couple.

[IronLionZion]

22. WWYD Video

From the ABC show What Would You Do?

[seabeyond]

24. thank you. yes. this video. nt

[cwydro]

75. Thanks for posting this.

Be a great OP.

[TorchTheWitch]

89. wow

Pass the kleenex. That was something else. I don't know how that waitress managed to keep from smacking that assnoodle she had to high-five severely several times over the head. And the coward claimed he high-fived her because of the food and made them blur out his face. Too embarrassed and cowardly to stick by his own evil convictions. Piece of chicken filth.

[seabeyond]

121. ya. he was a coward that, wasnt he. i have found those types. they think/assume

you would be on their side or stay quiet. speak up? they back pedal and cowar

[Live and Learn]

101. That was nice to see. Thanks for sharing it.

And, way to go Texas. (Never thought I would be saying that.)

[IronLionZion]

116. There are good people everywhere

You would hope that eventually there would be enough to change the elected representatives too.

I was surprised to find that oil city had a lesbian mayor, for instance, so maybe this issue would get more awareness after it has already happened to lots of ordinary citizens.

[Enthusiast]

105. This illustrates how far left the nation has moved on social issues.

The red state governments just do not reflect this change—yet.

Hate no longer sells with most Americans. From my perspective most people are happy to live in a more tolerant America.

[Eleanors38]

68. Being a Southerner, this doesn't surprise.

[justabob]

8. great to see the bystanders jump in

but I am wondering how it even got that far. The guy flung off his coat and was clearly escalating with what appear to be security type people, or at least airport workers there. Someone already had a camera going on him.... why not page security/police? In any case, good to see random people step up and do something.

Another curious thing.... Are the rules for serving alcohol different in airports? Whatever restaurant/bar let that guy get that drunk is also a problem.... unless they changed the rules since I was last TABC certified. Of course he could have been drunk before arriving there at the airport.

[TeamPooka]

11. There are rules about serving booze in the air but not on the ground.

The standard of responsibility many times still lands on bartenders though.

[Voice for Peace]

30. I'm confused about the guy in the wheelchair, how did he end up on the ground?

[Quayblue]

41. He ran over and jumped on the guy too I think

I saw him rush over from the right.

[freshwest]

50. And he was wearing latex gloves, too, wasn't he? There was a lot going on in that video...

[Ash_F]

59. No, just a bystander that got hurt.

see my other post.

[Enthusiast]

106. According to the comments he broke his ankle during the scrum.

That's why they brought the wheel chair.

[davidpdx]

110. I caught that as well

Here is the comment:

Guy in the pink shirt had his ankle broken, you can hear it at 1:22.

I had heard the crunching noise when watching it a few times, but didn't realize that what it was until I saw that comment. You can clearly hear it. Plus they said something about calling the paramedics.

I broke my ankle 3 years ago and I will tell you it was no fun. Then I flew from Korea to the US and back and a week after that flew to China. I hope that never happens again.

[Enthusiast]

111. Geez. All that travel would make it far worse. Even the thought of breaking an ankle, ouch.

I've had some pretty bad breaks, but never the ankles. There are so many little bones down there. My feet are already full of bone spurs. I feel bad for the guy.

[Ash_F]

58. He snapped his ankle as they went down.

You can hear it. Bummer. The thug should have to pay his medical bills.

[Voice for Peace]

82. ok, so he wasn't in the wheelchair until after they tackled the guy?

That makes more sense.

[TorchTheWitch]

93. not just rules but laws for any bar that serves alcohol

It's the bartender's responsibility to recognize when someone has become too intoxicated and cut them off as well as try to convince them to stay for awhile so some of the drunk wears off, offer food since food helps to combat intoxication and try to get other patrons or the intoxicated person's friends (if they're there with friends) to help you in convincing the intoxicated person to remain for awhile not drinking alcohol to give a chance for them to sober up.

No one working in the bar nor the owner of the bar is permitted to take away their car keys or any thing else the intoxicated person owns even when they insist they're going to drive. The bartender has to know at what point in the scenario they need to involve the manager (if there is one... some of us have to work entirely alone in a bar) and when to call the police to keep them from driving.

I know of a club that years ago lost their liquor license (and still haven't gotten it back and may never) because someone (the bartender or manager or bouncer or owner) dropped the ball and allowed a customer who refused the taxi that was called for them and left driving their own car without calling the police. Low and behold, the drunk caused a car accident where he either killed someone or seriously injured someone - I can't recall which. The bar became a BYOB club for people of drinking age though they let in anyone at least 18 years old but have the responsibility to make sure the under age customers don't drink. I think they built a little stage and offer live bands or something to try to keep customers coming in. Oddly enough the bar is still responsible for the customers that bring in their own booze and still have to cut them off if they become too intoxicated. You can imagine how customers react to this. Not the sort of place I would ever want to have to work at.

The worst part is that most bars just want to keep the register ringing up sales and don't give a crap if someone leaves reeling drunk driving their car. Though it's your responsibility as a bartender to intervene most bars won't let you cut them off because of those few dollars they'd miss out on by continuing to serve the drunk, and if you put your foot down you better have another job lined up already because your butt will get sacked.

Airport bars in particular tend to not give a rat's rear how falling down drunk the customers get figuring they'll be eventually stumbling onto a plane and let the aircraft crew deal with them. The most falling down drunk people I've ever seen in my life were drinking in an airport bar. Literally falling sideways out of their bar stools. You could piss in a Collins glass, drop the oldest most wrinkled and dry bit of something that was some sort of fruit in a past life and they'd smack their slobbering lips and say...

"Thhhath thhe bethhh Marthhhini I'zzzz evvvvvrrrrrr had-duh {belch}."

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. "I did it because...America!"

I would have had to resist the urge to kick that asshole in the teeth while he was down.

[TeamPooka]

10. That was awesome. Great camera work too. nt

[frylock]

18. yes. it's refreshing to see somebody that knows how to position a phone in landscape format.

[Eleanors38]

12. How it's done in Texas: With a cowboy hat.

[nytemare]

55. I love the mix of people who took him down, too.

Pink shirt guy from wheelchair, two black police officers, guy with cowboy hat, and like two other guys too? What better representation of America can you have than that group. That was fantastic.

[demigoddess]

13. a tip of the hat to the 5 guys

who took him down, held him for the cops.

[jtuck004]

16. Mom: "Oh, don't get me on there". lol. Now millions of people know who you are. Hi mom. n/t

[frylock]

19. dude in the black hat kinda reminded me of a David Cross bit regarding the 'redneck voice'

[ReRe]

99. Dude sounded like GWB!

[El Shaman]

21. Tasers

must of been charging in the janitor room.

[FailureToCommunicate]

52. Nah, the guy was white. They handled him with 'kid gloves' allowing his stupid rant to continue

I'm surprised no one 'accidentally bumped' that metal stanchion next to his smirking face.

[Crazypolitics25]

27. Good job by those that intervened

We need more people like the one in the cowboy hat and the others who piled on top of the bully until security arrived,Well done!

[justiceischeap]

32. I saw at least 2 TSA employees walk away

as things escalated.

[drray23]

33. this just shows that there is no need

to tazer people to death if regular citizens can easily take down a crasy guys so should cops
without tazing or shooting people.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

35. Now that's what I'm talkin' about.

There may be some hope yet.

I take back all those bad things I said about Texas.

[Hulk]

36. Just your typical red-neck goat roper from Texas

These red neck haters can come out of the woodwork with a little alcohol in their blood system. But damn that marijuana "killer drug" that goes and messes up your mind!

[Enthusiast]

107. Some of those redneck goat ropers are the dope smokinest assholes I've ever seen.

Seriously. But I'm in Ohio where things might be different.

[SoapBox]

37. What the bloody hell?

Thanks a lot Pukes, Baggers and Fundies for creating a group to hate...they had to give up on Reds Under the Beds.

And drinking and flights...there have been so many altercations inflight that involve alcohol.

At LAX, there is now a snack bar that is selling beer, right smack dab at some of the gates in Terminal 6...in all fairness, they opened this because they closed the Sports BAR for remodeling.

[Baitball Blogger]

40. How polite. They asked him if he wanted to go to jail.

[Arugula Latte]

43. That guy is like out of central casting for an ignorant, angry, dumbass redneck male

Glad he got taken down. Hope his name is spread far and wide.

[Enthusiast]

108. Cliven Bundy will probably offer him a job.

[Arugula Latte]

135. He can be a cattle taunter

out on the range. He's dumb enough to taunt a bull, too.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

45. Fuck the security assholes (maybe TSA?) who just stood there waiting for the assault to happen

The situation had escalated beyond the point where they should have intervened. I can guarantee that if the aggressor in the video had been black or brown, the takedown would have happened a lot sooner.

[cwydro]

70. If you're talking about TSA...

that is not their job.

The cops were there pretty damn quick. No doubt the ticket agent called immediately.

[joshcryer]

84. They were obviously waiting for backup.

The black woman was clearly called in to assess the situation and backup was on the way. Twenty more seconds it's probable the assault wouldn't have happened.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

46. Let's hope they don't have FOX "News" in jail.

[Skittles]

47. if he wasn't at the airport he would probably be armed

[TorchTheWitch]

94. and so blotto that he likely would have shot off his tiny little

manly bits trying to get his "penis extension" out of his shorts.

Imagine TSA workers crawling around on the carpet armed with tweezers searching for his tiny little manly bits. "Oh happy day, sir!" (holds up minuscule fragment of what is either a bit of carpet fluff or his manly bits with tweezers) "Is this your penis, sir? Shall we secure it back in place with a happy face child sized bandaid or would you prefer the peace sign bit of Scotch tape?"

[Skittles]

151. careful

tens of thousands of senseless gun deaths every year can be excused but they get VERY upset over penis analogies; yes INDEED

[Docross]

49. That was great!

So many people 'don't want to get involved', but I think ever since that shoe bomber
tried to light it on that plane and so many passengers JUMPED HIM...things have changed.
It's great! People running in to lift whole cars ..on fire.. to save people; or 20 guys jumping into
a river to turn a van over, with teenagers in it to save them. Lots of that happening now.
Good Americans- so watch your bigoted Ass...inine behavior.

[shenmue]

53. Years ago, there was a horrible drunk guy on a flight I was on

He was nasty the whole time. Yelling at the staff and everything. When we got to the airport, the police took him away. I wanted to cheer.

[Ash_F]

57. Aww..I you can hear the ankle snap one of them.

It sounded painful. Didn't notice at first, then I saw him in a wheelchair.

He did the right thing though.

[janlyn]

61. What a POS!

A waste of oxygen!

[byronius]

65. That's some awesome Actual Americans.

And the way every hateful slur needs to be dealt with.

[cwydro]

67. Don't mess with Texas! nt

[Eleanors38]

74. Indeed. nt

[Solly Mack]

79. K&R

[joshcryer]

85. Niel needs to run for office.

He'd go far with that type of language.

[Triana]

88. A Republican no doubt. Tea bagger. They dragged him off w/ his butt-crack showing.

Perfect. He wanted to show his ass. So he was assisted by police in doing so. Good job.

[TorchTheWitch]

95. did you notice the petite blonde woman that watched him go

and laughed her ass off at his ridiculous plumber's crack airing in the wind?

[freshwest]

143. Ah, you noticed that, too! LOL. The guy's in for a world of hurt from his assholery.

[redruddyred]

92. the guy sounds psychotic

did they really need six people on top of him?

[Enthusiast]

96. Assholes. What can we do? It's right wing assholes from sea to shining sea.

[ReRe]

103. Thanks, geardaddy

Great video & great thread!

[leeroysphitz]

104. Oh the times they are a changin' n/t

[SmittynMo]

112. Lets see here

Texas. Republican state. Racist, sexist, hateful, ignorant. Need I say more?

Keep him in jail until after the election.

[RVN VET]

123. Considering that most of the people who laid into this boob were also Texans,

yeah, I'd say you need to say more.

If the bystanders -- especially the cowboy -- had ignored the boob and let his drunken attack continue, it would have been easy to extrapolate from the event to the entire population of the State of Texas. But, holy crow, they were on the idiot and had him to the ground in a DFW second. The boob is, indeed, hateful, racist, ignorant. And, when he gets out of jail, he'll likely be touted as a hometown hero by his bro's and ho's. But what the video shows is that, at least in this one significant instance, the good folks far outnumber the boobs, even in Texas! (And some of them good folks, btw, are probably of the RW persuasion -- go figure.)

But I get where you're com in' from. Any State that can elect and re-elect a dim bulb like Rick Perry (about whom it has been said that "unlike GWB who likes to play act at being stupid, Rick Perry is the genuine article&quot paraphrasing Molly Ivins there. ) has to make an intelligent person wonder what in hell they put in the water down there.

[cntrygrl]

118. Just wondering if anyone knows

the name of this turd and where he's from. I did a quick search but can't find it. Not even in the Dallas news. I'd love to know if he has a FB account and read what he posts.

Also wondering when his court date will be. He can't wiggle his fat ass out of this one ..... not with that video!!

[Strelnikov_]

128. Alcohol is a hell of a drug . . .

and when combined with stupid redneck, a volatile mix. The boys just shouldn't be round folks when they got their load on.

Guy reminded me of the Lou character from 'A Simple Plan'.

[redstatebluegirl]

129. Ignorance on display.

The alcohol or drugs just bring out his real personality. It removes his ability to stifle those awful thoughts and just spit them out at people. That was his true personality!

Glad the bystanders jumped in to help, he was much bigger than the young man he was kicking, he could have done some serious damage if they hadn't stopped him.

Also, give the black police officers some credit, I couldn't have called him "sir" after then things he said to them.

[Helen Borg]

136. Terrorist on the floor!

[whereisjustice]

138. American Taliban, Southern Tribe

[Glassunion]

139. This was all staged. Yet another fake video brought to you by YouTube...

I have read right here on DU in countless OPs that the state of Texas is full of nothing but racist, sexist, ignorant, hateful, fascist, cruel, and evil people with an inferiority complex. And don't even get me started on what secret code is hidden behind why they wear the "Cowboy" hat and boots.

So based solely on my DU education, if this were really Texas, and if this were really happening, everyone in that terminal would have started beating up the guy in the pink shirt.

[bluestateguy]

146. Why didn't the police just let the crowd beat the shit out of him?

Sometimes there a people who need an ass whopping.

[DirkGently]

147. Excellent. n/t

[noiretextatique]

152. kudos to the decent people who tackled this idiot

and i hope the man he attacked sues his dumb ass.

[TexasTowelie]

162. Update on the guy that was arrested:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107821740