Posted on 06/29/2015 5:47:03 PM PDT by SMGFan
Though it might seem like “no smoking” signs on airplanes aren’t even needed anymore — who could possibly think lighting up a cigarette in an enclosed cabin filled with other people is okay? — there are apparently those out there who still need reminding that smoking isn’t allowed. To wit: a United Airlines flight headed to Boston from Denver was forced to turn around after a passenger reportedly lit up and refused to stop smoking.
Officials said the flight returned to Denver International Airport around midnight on Friday due to a disturbance on board, an airport spokesperson told Channel 2 News in Colorado.
A male passenger was smoking in the bathroom, a United representative said, which goes against federal regulations.
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From Denver? Smoking what?
And think of how much that smoking will cost him. Fines, being sued by Untied Airlines for costs ....
Dude! What a buzz kill.
Lots of real bad guys are on no-fly lists. And they continue to fly.
This guy needs cigarettes, lit and then put out on all parts of his anatomy.
That’ll learn ‘em.
Did he smuggle his lighter or matches past TSA?
...oh, cigarettes, never mind.
I and many others did it all the time when we flew back in the 70's and 80's until the PPOP's took control of this country ....nobody died.
(PPOP = Perpetually Pissed Off Pricks)
Ben Kingsley pulled this stunt in “Sexy Beast” (2000).
Guy deserves 5 minutes alone in a room with the passengers: One at time, no questions asked. Start with the five biggest guys and work your way down.
All this nonsense about turning planes around because one passenger is misbehaving is overkill.
Smoke em if you got em
Did the pilot announce “I’ll turn this plan right around and we can go back home”. Lol
Maybe another source.
As Mae West said, I never looked.
Yeah, I flew to London in 1991 in the smoking section, from Logan. Guy I was flying with was a smoker. And then a family of five in smoking section decided they wanted to sit in non-smoking, and somehow the blessed stewardess accommodated them. They shuffled some people in the smoking section back into their seats, and they were on the edge of the smoking section.
Smoking didn’t bother me, but the guy in the seat next to me was a friendly French-Canadian, about 30, drunk as a skunk, who regaled me with photos of the hovels he lived in in the Siberian oil patch where he worked, and of the preternaturally ugly Russian cook, with a smile as big as the steppes and a waist as wide as a T-72.
What a flight. Oh, yeah, we had the obnoxious British twit who wouldn’t turn off his electronics, and the poor Asian American flight attendant imploring him to comply so we could take off, while we sat hostage to his intransigence. Oh, what flight.
the individual was covered in multiple bruises and contusions as he was dragged off the plane.
some delta bravo cops this attitude on my flight, well hell.
Times have changed. When I took a flight on United Airlines from Denver to New York City on August 28, 1961, the stewardesses were passing out free cigarettes.
I witnessed one of these a number of years ago. Some guy had a real cigarette Jones and was hauled out of the bathroom several times after lighting up. Finally the flight attendants (including a very fit male), yanked him out of the bathroom, cuffed him with zip ties and stuffed him in the aft galley with the male flight attendant playing king of the mountain until we got to our destination. They guy was bawling like a baby.
When we pulled to the gate, the first folks in the door was three goons in blue who carted this guy away without asking if he had collected all of his belongings.
Today’s political volks would be all for it, if he’d been wearing a rainbow fag shirt and smoking pot.
Actually, people did die as a result of someone smoking on a plane. 23 to be exact. See flight 797 in Canada. This is part of every yearly recurrent training I had for 25 years as a flight attendant when we went through the fire safety portion of training.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
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