[PLMerite]

“What’s the hubbub, Bub?”

I dunno. Maybe because there’s some slighly elevated chance one of us might end up in an airport holding cell if we balk at some of the indignities heaped upon us?

Maybe because if I’m sitting handcuffed next to an unruly handcuffed drunk I don’t want it to be unobserved so that if something bad happens to one of us I don’t end up assaulted, dead, or blamed.

She shouldn’t have been left alone in a situation where she was able to harm herself or others. This wasn’t some third-world backalley gin joint; this was a high-tech airport in the United States and if she was drunk it was most likely because a bar at the airport sold her the alcohol.

[CholeraJoe]

She shouldn’t have been left alone in a situation where she was able to harm herself or others.

Agreed, but unfortunately it happens in dozens of jails across the nation all the time.

if she was drunk it was most likely because a bar at the airport sold her the alcohol.

Very few people get drunk for free these days. Almost no one gets drunk against their will. Is it your assertion that if a drunk kills themselves or someone else, the seller of the alcohol is liable?

[Erik Latranyi]

... and if she was drunk it was most likely because a bar at the airport sold her the alcohol.

There is an unconfirmed report that she had to re-enter through security and was so unstable that TSA gave her the extra pat-down treatment. This may indicate she left the airport to drink.

Regardless, she is solely responsible for what happened. Nobody else.

[Kozak]

She shouldn’t have been left alone in a situation where she was able to harm herself or others. This wasn’t some third-world backalley gin joint; this was a high-tech airport in the United States and if she was drunk it was most likely because a bar at the airport sold her the alcohol.

At any point does this woman not have any responsibility for her actions? Getting drunk, missing her flight, pitching a fit, resisting arrest, finally trying to Houdini out of her cuffs? Or did the rest of us have to wipe her a## for her as well the rest of her life?