Posted on 06/05/2007 7:31:34 AM PDT by Starman417
(WBZ) BOSTON A former police officer is being called a hero after he helped subdue two unruly passengers on a plane over the weekend.
Retired police officer Bob Hayden, who served in Boston and Lawrence for several years, was coming back from Minnesota on a Northwest plane with his wife when the unexpected happened.
Before the flight even took off, Hayden said a man, who appeared aggravated, was walking up and down the aisle of the plane. The flight attendant had to force him into his seat after asking him to do so a few times.
Hayden said after the aircraft finally got in the air, he noticed there was some sort of commotion. The same man had started screaming and fell into the aisle.
Initially, Hayden said he thought the guy was having a heart attack, but he quickly realized the incident might have been staged. According to Hayden, two flight attendants helped the man back into his seat where he continued to yell for the entire flight.
The incident apparently scared some of the plane passengers and even made some people cry, Hayden said.
When the pilot made the announcement the plane was approaching Logan Airport, Hayden said the man who caused the first commotion and a second person began yelling and fell into the aisle. That is when Hayden said he, with the help of a retired U.S. Marine captain, took action.
Hayden said he grabbed the first guy and sat him down. He then pushed the second man onto the floor and cuffed him with a pair of handcuffs a flight attendant had given him. Hayden said he sat next to the two men until police were able to board the plane.
Both men were taken for a psych evaluation, and at this point, are not facing any charges.
STOP RIGHT THERE! That flight should have never left the ground. It is a good thing it turned out as well as it did but ... damn! If that wasn't predictable ...
I dunno, if I was on that flight I'd have been tempted right then and there to ask my fellow passengers to demand the plane return to the gate and have that idiot removed.
And the tandem yelling ... just another unrelated coincidence, right? Yeah, sure.
its probably just Pete and Larry goofing around. no akmeds or abduls or anything like that.
My thoughts exactly - no mention of ethnicity, then they probably “fit the profile”.
Yep. Two is suspect. If a probe, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were others on the plane observing the responses and opportunities. Gotta run, have a great day...
Damn right!!!
IIRC the "flying Imams" were leaving out of Minnesota as well...
Kinky.
I like that the crew had handcuffs but standard issue tasers would be nice also.
“I had looked around the plane for help, and all the younger guys had averted their eyes. When I asked the guy next to me if he was up to it, all he said was, ‘Retired captain. USMC.’ I said, ‘You’ll do,’ “ Hayden recalled. “So, basically, a couple of grandfathers took care of the situation”
Didn’t you just LOVE that article!!??
How does going psycho constitute a probe?
I just asked the stewardess for some nuts, but that was ridiculous!
I dunno...sounds like the Quaker M.O. to me.....
Great link, the last paragraph is priceless.
Not much of a story at this link, but the video tells us some more. Hayden, it would appear, is a former Navy Seal, as well.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/13443314/detail.html
Hayden's wife of 42 years, Katie, who was also on the flight, was less impressed. Even as her husband struggled with the agitated passenger, she barely looked up from "The Richest Man in Babylon," the book she was reading.
"The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just sit there reading," Katie Hayden said. "Bob's been shot at. He's been stabbed. He's taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody's neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn't know how the book would end."
Yeah, his wife’s a pip!
Sounds like the castrati that passes for the American male in MA.
Hayden's wife of 42 years, Katie, who was also on the flight, was less impressed. Even as her husband struggled with the agitated passenger, she barely looked up from "The Richest Man in Babylon," the book she was reading.
"The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just sit there reading," Katie Hayden said. "Bob's been shot at. He's been stabbed. He's taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody's neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn't know how the book would end."
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