"Which way? Turn right at Nathan's Famous."
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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.
Give me a break - what a bunch of pansies. Looks as though the feminization of America is doing well.
Anybody on a flight I’m on pulls that business will be nursing broken bones until the authorities take them away. Go ahead sue me.....I will not tolerate shenanigans @ 31,000 ft.
Hayden’s statement that he thought it might be a diversion implies to me that the pair just might be Islamic in appearance. Interesting interview.
‘”I’ve said this before and got scorched for it. But it appears to me that this feminized, narcissistic generation of American “men” have become pansies. There are exceptions, thanks be to God, but overall I am amazed to see just how immature, dopey and narcissistic young males are today.”
I agree with you and will probably be scorched right along with you.’
Make that three.
However, after 9/11, if I am on an AIRPLANE and some guys start going wacko, I daresay that it is worth the risk to try and get control of the situation because we know what can happen now. Also if this was some kind of probe, we need to send a clear message to the jihadis that if you start acting up on an airplane, you WILL be taken down.
Allahu Akbar, by any chance?? :-(
Yup. Here it is:
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."
Who us? paranoid?
Northwest seems to be particularly inept at applying travel security regulations.
I just flew with them a couple of weeks ago, and if the FAA has intructed Captains to remind passengers before takeoff that congregating in and blocking aisles and bathroom areas is not allowed, particularly during takeoffs and landings, these particular pilots either ignored the directive or never heard of it.
LOL!!!
I'm still laughing.
They're killing me here...
More Amish terrorits?
The author pushed your button; deliberately.
Many people have flying phobia. I would expect a number of the females to cry under extreme cicumstances. The author very deliberately wanted to make it sound as if the passengers "overreacted".
There is no more helpless place to face real or wannabe terrorists than in a long, cold metal tube flying at 36,000 feet...
The author pushed your button; deliberately.
Many people have flying phobia. I would expect a number of the females to cry under extreme cicumstances. The author very deliberately wanted to make it sound as if the passengers "overreacted".
There is no more helpless place to face real or wannabe terrorists than in a long, cold metal tube flying at 36,000 feet...
Shouldn't be a surprise. They were raised like women.
Psych exam? The examiners will be wacko nut jobs trained in a leftist university. The guys will seem sane compared to them.
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Ooh Rah!
Score one for retired Marine captains everywhere!
SandyInSeattle
Captain, USMC, Retired
I thought that I recognized Hayden. He used to jog past my street a couple of times a week. He was in incredible shape and always struck me as someone who you would not want to mess with. At the time I didn’t know that he was a police officer. Good for him.
Can’t wait to find out the ethnicity of these guys.
Talk about your lawsuits, these guys woulda had VERY sore crotches had I been there.....
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