Active duty soldier running amok in plane taken off -- CNN just now.

[Skidmore]

Was removed and taken for mental eval. Anyone else catch the whole story. I think it was in Chicago at LaGuardia (sp?).

[TahitiNut]

1. LaGuardia is in New York, not Chicago.

While I have CNN on, I didn't notice this one.

[Skidmore]

4. So it is.

Sorry for the goof and thanks for the correction.

[Synnical]

2. This?

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060707/APN/607070699

Soldier held after ramming cockpit door on Tampa-bound flight

By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla.
A U.S. Army soldier who had served in Iraq was tackled and restrained by passengers after running down the aisle and ramming the cockpit door on a flight from New York City to Tampa, an official said.

The soldier did not have any weapons and there was no evidence that he meant harm to passengers or crew on the flight Thursday night, Tampa International Airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said.

The soldier, who was traveling from New York with his brother to visit their mother on a Delta flight, was restrained on the floor until the flight landed in Tampa.

He was taken into custody under a Florida law that allows a person to be held without charges if they are deemed to be a threat to themselves or others, Geoghagan said. The soldier's brother told officials that he "has some mental problems related to his Army service," Geoghagan said.

The Associated Press was withholding the name of the soldier because no charges have been filed. Information about the soldier's hometown, rank, unit or service in Iraq was not immediately available Friday.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Lucky he had soldier creds

Otherwise he would be in lock down with the Miami 7 as we speak. Soldiers can do no wrong. Support the troops.........

[ladjf]

8. Or dead.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. This is not a florida law

it is a national standard an it is a 72 hour psych eval hold

[Synnical]

12. Yeah, it is

"national standard" not with standing, it's still a Florida law. I know, I'm being snippy.

;-)

[underpants]

10. They were going to meet mid-flight?

Amy I reading this wrong?

The soldier, who was traveling from New York with his brother to visit their mother on a Delta flight, was restrained on the floor until the flight landed in Tampa.

[Clark2008]

11. Bless my dangling participle.

You know, when I was reporting, I'd catch those things on a re-read - or my editor (who had been an English teacher in New Zealand) would.

I mess up on this board some times, but I'm not getting paid to write correctly here nor do I have an editor who, again, is SUPPOSED TO CATCH THESE THINGS.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[Synnical]

13. In a hurry to get stories on the internet, grammar is getting tossed

It's sad, but true.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Here's the printed story link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2376293

[shadowknows69]

7. There was a headline earlier on this that said

Airplane attack foiled.

[gratuitous]

9. Ah war, the gift that keeps on giving

While the majority of folks returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will quietly cope with what they've seen and done in those war zones, there will be a certain percentage who will not seek out counseling, try self-medicating, whose families will try to keep the lid on their burbling dissonance with greater and lesser successes, and there will inevitably be some who will just go off the deep end for any number of reasons.

There's no way to predict who will cope better or worse, who will seek out counseling or other assistance, or even whether they will recognize in themselves incipient madness leaking out. And we'll be treated scenes and incidents like this for decades to come.

The federal budget, however, will never reflect this as an ongoing cost of George W. Bush's elective invasions, and society will slowly turn against these disturbed individuals. It will once again fall to the bleeding heart liberals in the health care communities (physical and mental health) to deal with the leftover broken pieces of failed imperialism. And in a couple of decades, "respectable" conservative voices, latter day Rush Limbaughs, Jonah Goldbergs and Michelle Malkins, will excoriate veterans while propping up the folks who profit so handsomely from the sacrifices we all make to support the American wehrmacht.

[helderheid]

14. My friend is separating from her husband after he returned from Iraq - he

has become violent and frightening. Heartbreaking.