Posted on 03/22/2025 12:54:35 PM PDT by kingu
NEW YORK (AP) — An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.
Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs.
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An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who, by assaulting or intimidating a flight crew member or flight attendant of the aircraft, interferes with the performance of the duties of the member or attendant or lessens the ability of the member or attendant to perform those duties, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both. However, if a dangerous weapon is used in assaulting or intimidating the member or attendant, the individual shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
Presuming the pilot was directing the man to return to his seat so the plane could land (which would seem a logical presumption), in order to prove his case, the passenger almost certainly will have to make statements that amount to a confession to Interference with flight crew members and attendants.
And the snowbirds in Yuma can’t pass up a WalMart crapper.
First guy ever to return from Mexico constipated!
If this guy gets millions there are going to be a whole lot more constipated passengers soon
Break it off.
As our TI would yell in Basic Training, "Pinch it off! Move! Move! Move!"
ugh- sorry that happens to you!
Give it a pull?
United does not screw around. Last flight with them we were parked on the taxiway for 50 minutes and the flight crew kept the lavatories locked. It was a little inhumane I thought.
“Fake news. No one returning from Mexico is constipated.”
Good one.
Man, that sounds like a trick question.
Yes, Yuma is a charming locale.
United Airlines has a reputation for beating up passengers.
He’ll sh** for sure when he gets the bill for all this.
They were LANDING!
You stay Classy!
LOL!!
Mexico to Houston. LAX is Los Angeles.
Thanks, I’m here all week.
Yep. Been there done that. Started regularly taking Miralax to prevent that from happening too often. Sorry if TMI but we are all adults here lol.
“... exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.”
His other option was to PULL UP HIS PANTS.
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