Unruly guy duct taped to airline seat...

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Posted: 1/5/13 at 4:38am

I can't wait for the lawsuit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257281/The-moment-drunken-passenger-taped-seat-flight-New-York-trying-choke-woman-ranting-plane-going-crash.html

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 5:36am

Well, being duct taped to an IcelandAir seat for any amount of time is enough to sue over. My ass ached for a week after a flight from JFK to Reykjavik.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 7:53am

What lawsuit? I'm pretty sure that you are able to restrain a person that provides a threat to the plane and/or its passengers. The second he threatens to sue, I'm sure the other passengers would be all too happy to discuss his behaviour.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 9:08am

He was tied to the seat. His feet were taped. His mouth was taped. It looks like there was a large zip tie around his legs. It seems a bit extreme. I don't know what the alternative would be, but don't air marshals have handcuffs? The fact that his friend was with him and taking pictures tells me they might have been having a laugh.

Updated On: 1/5/13 at 09:08 AM

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 9:32am

It does seem a little extreme. I don't know, if it happened to me, I might try to sue them also.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 10:54am

The details of this seem rather murky (I've read several other accounts, and they all differ in the details). Most say that the photo was not taken by a friend, but rather simply a fellow passenger. It seems that the man was taken into custody upon landing, but may not be prosecuted because passengers aren't coming forward with details. IF what most accounts are saying is true (attacking other passengers, spitting on other passengers, trying to choke a woman), what would you have them do?

Two hours is an awfully long time to spend in a pressurized tube way up in the sky with a screaming, spitting, out of control lunatic. I'll be interested in further details on this.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 10:59am

I would need more details too. Like, were any other steps taken to stop him, or did they tie him up right away, etc.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 10:59am

To be captured in that outfit with the hairdo is punishment enough.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 11:36am

"but may not be prosecuted because passengers aren't coming forward with details"

I heard this as well, and was wondering why they need the passengers to get involved? It's illegal to interfere with a flight crew, so don't they have enough on him that way, to file charges??

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 11:41am

This is the only way to sit thru an entire performance of "The Anarchist"

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 11:44am

Exactly. There is so much about this story that doesn't make sense, Diva. As to his restraints (if the details we've heard are true), the only real problem I have is the duct tape gag. If he had been drinking heavily, that would put him in danger of dying via aspiration.

Doubtless, allowing him to continue to scream and spit for two hours would have been unsettling - but would stopping that via an impermeable gag be worth his life?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 12:26pm

If he were spitting, then I would have taped his mouth shut as well.

His nose is clear...

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 12:28pm

Sure his nose is clear - but if he vomits, he dies. Put a bag over his head, maybe. He'll still make noise, but he can't spit on anyone.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 12:33pm

If he vomits, it will shoot out his nose. There would be enough time to get the tape off of him.

Besides, what bag could you put over his head that he could breathe through, but not be able to yell and scream?

Maybe just a cloth gag?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 3:07pm

Isn't this just another Internet hoax?

Why do people believe it's real?

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 4:05pm

"If he vomits, it will shoot out his nose. There would be enough time to get the tape off of him.

Besides, what bag could you put over his head that he could breathe through, but not be able to yell and scream?

Maybe just a cloth gag?"

He can yell and scream all he wants - it's the spitting that conceivably be a hazard - and any bag will do to prevent that, or just a blanket over his head. As to the rest of what you've said, IF all this is true, many people have died b/c of gags. Esp when alcohol is involved.

"Isn't this just another Internet hoax? "

Could be, PJ, which is why I've questioned the story from the get go. I'm a big believer in the CCR "believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear" credo. As Reg will tell you, I don't even own a television machine. I'm speaking from a hypothetical.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 4:23pm

It's a staged photo. Put up by the kind of people who post these things on the Internet and then sit back and laugh at us.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 1/5/13 at 4:32pm

Time will surely tell.