Maybe this was what they had in mind?
Posted on 11/14/2006 5:08:58 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
Couple from California face federal charges for alleged airborne antics
ANDREA WEIGL
(Raleigh) News & Observer
RALEIGH - A California couple whose in-flight friskiness on the way to Raleigh was a bit much for other passengers are facing federal charges for harassing the flight attendant who asked them to stop.
Carl Warren Persing and Dawn Elizabeth Sewell are scheduled to go to trial Dec. 11 at the federal courthouse in Wilmington for their behavior during a Sept. 15 flight.
The indictment states that "the defendants repeatedly engaged in overt sexual activity in the cabin of the plane to such an extent that the flight attendant had to direct them to stop."
But Persing and Sewell wouldn't halt their public displays of affection, and Persing threatened the flight attendant who made the request and refused to serve them alcohol, according to the court records.
Efforts to reach Persing, of Lakewood, Calif., and Sewell, of Huntington Beach, Calif., were unsuccessful.
Their defense lawyers did not return messages Monday.
It is unclear how often disruptive passengers are charged with crimes. The Federal Aviation Administration tracks only incidents involving unruly passengers that are reported by the flight crew and are not referred to law enforcement. There were 79 incidents this year as of Sept. 20 -- in comparison to last year's total of 203.
FBI special agent Michael Sutton wrote in an affidavit that Persing and Sewell were on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Raleigh with a stop in Phoenix. On the first trip, Persing and Sewell sat in separate rows, and Persing was served one alcoholic drink. From Phoenix to Raleigh, the pair sat next to each other.
While in the plane on the ground in Phoenix, the couple were kissing, embracing and "acting in a manner that made other passengers uncomfortable," Sutton wrote in his affidavit.
"Persing was observed nuzzling or kissing Sewell on the neck, and around the collarbone in the vicinity of her breast," Sutton wrote. Persing was also observed with his face pressed against Sewell's lower body.
At first, the couple complied with a request from a flight attendant to stop their behavior. But they soon resumed during the flight.
When asked again, according to Sutton's affidavit, Persing told the flight attendant: "I'm going to give you one warning to get out of my face."
Things deteriorated from there, according to Sutton's affidavit: The flight attendant refused to serve them alcohol. Persing called the flight attendant "a punk." Persing kept asking for alcohol.
Sewell told the flight attendants that she worked for a lawyer and it was illegal not to serve alcohol to them. The flight attendant told them to stop asking for alcohol.
Persing said, "You and I are gonna have some serious confrontation when we get off this plane."
When the couple got off the plane in Raleigh, law enforcement officials were waiting.
Speaking from personal experience, are we? Eh? Eh? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge? Now let's have a look at that mile high membership card of yours.
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FBI special agent Michael Sutton wrote in an affidavit that Persing and Sewell were on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Raleigh with a stop in Phoenix. On the first trip, Persing and Sewell sat in separate rows, and Persing was served one alcoholic drink. From Phoenix to Raleigh, the pair sat next to each other.
Married lovers are really in it now... He, he.
Dear Penthouse Forum:
I never thought the stories you guys printed were true until I got on my flight for Raleigh...
What happens? Does one person go into the bathroom, masturbate and come out. The next person goes in a does the same thing and comes out.
Voila, they have both joined the mile high club?
I'll show you later. ;^)
Sounds like a couple of classless customers.
BOTH VOTED SOCIALIST IN LAST ELECTION. ODDS?
Just curious, but did you read the same article as the rest of us? You are blaming the flight crew and the rules for this incident?
Easy on that caffine...its going to OK today!!
Did Carl Warren Persing and Dawn Elizabeth Sewell think were flying on Clinton's Air Force One?
You know...I always thought the bathroom facilities on commercial aircraft were designed for a couple of reasons...
You'd think Southwest would adheir to its latest commercial jingle...And include the following statement in the pre-flight brief...
"wanna get away?"
Seems appropriate...[snicker, snort, guffah]
Maybe this was what they had in mind?
I just flew in from Aneheim (and boy are my arms tired ka-ching) but seriously, as we were doing the hop from D/FW to KC, with my daughter sound asleep and my six year old granddaughter wiggling around and my left arm sore and post operative, the flight attendant came, for the second time, for "cans only." He had a little black box in which he was collecting soda cans. I had two glasses full of apple juice and we were on the final descent. I stopped him and put the two glasses in the box. He then proceeded to go postal on me or as my daughter puts it, he went Robert DeNiro on me... Are you talking to me? Is there a problem? Very very odd. Over and over repeating the same thing. I tried once to explain the situation but gave up. I didn't, however, retrieve the drinks and since it took both his hands to hold the tray, he couldn't do anything about it and finally he flounced on his way.
Maybe they had a few drinks in the lounge before boarding the plane and she spiked his drink with Viagra and he spiked hers with Spanish fly.
LOL! You are a savage, Doc.
Not for the citizens of Denver..../Snicker
She must work for Mark Geragos.
I wonder if they knew each before the flight.
LOL! Sounds likely.
Definately unfit for any thing above baggage class.
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