British woman pleads guilty in Maine air rage case

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/21/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

BANGOR, Maine – A British woman has pleaded guilty in Maine to assault after being accused of downing prescription drugs, wine and lavatory soap, then scuffling with flight attendants.

Galina Rusanova pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The Bangor Daily News says she was sentenced to the 21 days she had already spent in jail. A charge of interference with a flight crew was dropped.

Prosecutors say the 54-year-old woman punched and kicked attendants on a United Airlines flight April 29. They say she tried to bite one while snapping "like a dog."

[NormsRevenge]

Galina Rusanova

[cweese]

Mad cow?

[NormsRevenge]

Bangor Daily News link

Soap drinking British passenger sentenced

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/106583.html

[GeorgiaDawg32]

A British woman has pleaded guilty in Maine to assault after being accused of downing prescription drugs, wine and lavatory soap,

LAVATORY SOAP????????? ROFL..

[King Moonracer]

A soap drinker, heh. Must be friends with Kitty Dukakis.

[NormsRevenge]

You’’d think so, huh?

I bet she was frothing at the mouth real good.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

She’s known for her bubbly personality.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Galina Rusanova pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts in U.S. District Court in Bangor.

Doesn't sound "British" to me. Russian, maybe?

[EggsAckley]

The pills and wine I can understand. Just don't get the soap thing.

Of course, after many really unpleasant flights on United, I sort of felt inclined to kick and bite a few flight attendants.

[WOBBLY BOB]

does Code Pink have a British chapter?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

as she was led out of the courtroom, she was heard to be singing, “I’m forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air”...

[buccaneer81]

The pills and wine I can understand. Just don't get the soap thing.

Some liquid soaps contain alcohol.

[Menehune56]

Too bad she already pleaded, I might have voted not guilty.

[happygrl]

She's an immigrant on the dole.

I read it on a British tabloid.

[I see my hands]

"A soap drinker, heh. Must be friends with Kitty Dukakis"

Nice reference to the Mop Bucket freak.

[NormsRevenge]

maybe she was trying to give herself a footbath in her mouth? she looks like a twiggy thing, probably could pull it off.. ;-)

[trisham]

I think this is a more recent photo:

[daku]

“accused of downing prescription drugs, wine and lavatory soap”

when stoned, she often uses vulgar language