Drunken women force flight to land in Germany

[Indenturedebtor]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25874841/

Drunken women force flight to land in Germany
Passengers went on rampage after flight attendant denied them alcohol

BERLIN - Two drunken British women went on a rampage on a charter plane, hitting one flight attendant with a bottle of vodka and trying to open a cabin door as the aircraft was cruising over Austria at 32,800 feet, police said Saturday.

The staff on the flight from Greece to England eventually forced the women back to their seats and the pilot made an emergency in Frankfurt on Thursday, police told The Associated Press, confirming a statement they had issued on Friday.

The identities of the women, aged 26 and 27, were not released, but police said the 26-year-old may be charged with attempted assault and interfering with air traffic.

The rampage occurred when a flight attendant denied the women alcohol because they were visibly intoxicated, police said. The 26-year-old took a swipe at a cabin attendant with a bottle of vodka, then attempted to open a cabin door....

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More at link above :rofl:

[Lautremont]

1. I'm picturing the Fat Slags from Viz magazine.

They'd be capable of a truly horrifying rampage.

[Indenturedebtor]

2. I am kind of imagining the women from that show "Absolutely Fabulous"

My wife used to put that crap on while I was playing games on my laptop heh.

[AlCzervik]

4. and Patsy would tell you she was 27 if you were dumb enough to ask her.

Love Patsy and Eddy!

[gateley]

5. Ha! Perfect!! nt

[Beacool]

9. I thought of them too, that's something that I could see them do.

I loved that show!!

:rofl:

[slackmaster]

3. This story is useless without video

At least a "dramatization".

:argh:

[bdf]

6. Have you noticed

that "air rage" started happening more frequently when planes banned smoking?

After a couple of hours, smokers are desperate for a ciggy. So they turn to alcohol in the hope that will quell the craving for nicotine. Of course it doesn't, and they just want a cigarette all the more. So they have another drink...

All too soon you have a drunk who is being made irate by nicotine cravings and the fact that the attendants won't even let him pop outside for a ciggy. :)

[Captain Angry]

7. You know where this is all going, right?

With the security measures, and behavior of some passengers...

Any flight over two hours is going to require that you show up in a white robe and slippers. No carry on. They'll show you to your seat and strap you in. Then, sedation. Knock your butt out for the flight.

At the destination, they'll revive people slowly to allow for an orderly exit instead of the rush that usually happens after the plane has landed.

[a la izquierda]

15. Have you seen the 5th Element?

Sounds just like that.

[Captain Angry]

21. That definitely was part of my design.

Just think. No such thing as first class. Or cargo, for that matter. :-)

[TahitiNut]

19. I figure they're close to sedating passengers and loading 'em like cargo.

One anesthesiologist instead of 4-5 flight attendants ... double the number of passengers. :shrug:

Fly the sedated skies of Isoflurane Air!

[a la izquierda]

23. Honestly, I'd prefer it.

I hate flying. It's such a pain in the ass. Give me some goofy/sleeping gas and I'd be a happy camper.
Currently, I just drink before I fly so I can pass back out.

[Phoonzang]

24. I used to like flying but now....

that sounds like a good idea. Just climb into your little compartment and go to sleep. No screaming children, no being cramped in ever-shrinking seats, no loud obnoxious passengers breaking things over people's heads.

[Captain Angry]

25. No spills, no turbulence, no noisy engine drone...

I could really go for that.

AND, no $2.00/bottle of water on the flight. No flying hungry. No cramped bathroom...

[Garbo 2004]

8. I immediately thought of Patsy & Edina when I first heard of this. n/t

[trof]

10. How much damage can you do with a miniature of vodka?

Last time I checked, they don't carry 1 liter bottles.
Just those tiny ones.
Just askin'?
;-)

[fl410]

11. And they're plastic not even glass! And anyway, once they were strapped in seats, what's the emer

gency?

[Garbo 2004]

12. They brought a full size bottle of vodka with them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/27/theairlineindustry.drugsandalcohol
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3516183,00.html

[trof]

16. Ah. Definitely a potential weapon. Thanks.

You can cold cock somebody with a bottle of vodka.
Seriously.

[Bunny]

13. Pshaw. Get back to me when you take a dump on the beverage cart.

Now that my friends, *that*, is disrupting a flight!


http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19980201-000032.html

<snip>
A well-heeled and well-respected investment banker in his late 50s made a small and decidedly unfortunate media splash in October 1995. Gerard Finneran, returning to the United States on an international flight and incensed when he was denied a drink for acting intoxicated, allegedly went on a rampage in the airplane's cabin, terrorizing the crew and passengers before being arrested when the plane touched down in New York. While the most serious charge facing the executive involved physically assaulting a flight attendant, what breathed life into the story was the airline's astonishing charge that, in the middle of his tantrum, Finneran scaled the beverage cart he was demanding access to, and pulled down his pants and defecated on it. According to the airline, Finneran used linen napkins as toilet paper, wiped his soiled hands on various surfaces, and then, charged the criminal complaint, "tracked feces throughout the aircraft."

News of what one tabloid newspaper called the "Jet-Mess Exec" instantly made its way around Wall Street, and reaction there was swift and harsh. Clearly, what Finneran had done was unspeakably disgusting--so disgusting, in fact, that some suggested only half jokingly that he would have been better off committing suicide on the spot. Long after the results of his spectacular indiscretion had been scrubbed away and deodorized, the stain on his reputation would linger. In all likelihood, his career would be finished and his life never the same.
<snip>

[Indenturedebtor]

17. LOL "A 4,000 dollar Italian suit" - $4,000 dollars

"Two tickets to see Shakespeare in London" - $250 dollars
"Plane tickets for said show" - $800 dollars
"Taking a crap on a beverage cart and then smearing poop all over the plane?" - priceless

[TahitiNut]

14. Why didn't they just go naked like men do?

:dunce:

[Greyhound]

18. Lindsay, Paris? I didn't know you were jetting around Europe. n/t

[LostinVA]

20. Wait a sec -- I know Midlo IRL -- she isn't British!?

[pleah]

22. Burrrrp! Scuz me.

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