Re: Passenger removed from flight in Labrador

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:07:54 GMT, Larry in AZ
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Waiving the right to remain silent, James Robinson <wascana@xxxxxxx> said:

Police said alcohol appears to be a factor in the case.

Booze should be removed from commercial flights. They've banned smoking, and
when did you ever hear of an unruly passenger causing trouble because of his
cigarette..?


There's been a few...have you not noticed over the years how the spiel
has changed..they now specifically mention that "tampering" with the
smoke detector in the loo is a no-no because some years back a joker
used as his defense for disabling the detector in the john to have a
quick smoke the fact that no one had *told* him that breaking the
alarm was forbidden. I beleive he ended up acquitted and thus the
very specific warning was added.

I also seem to recall there was some guy so off his nut for a smoke
that he kept trying to open one of the main doors to "go outside and
light up"...I suspect he had been drinking heavily also.

One of the more classic fun bits of film (to a cruel person such as
myself) was that shown after the first coast to coast non-smoking
flight landed back when the ban first kicked in...some of the folks
shown getting off looked ready for the palsy ward they were shaking so
badly...a few were almost jogging (as best a heavy smoker *can* jog)
to get to a smoking area so they could enjoy the action-adventure
fresh flavor of their favorite inhaled drug. :)

Jim P.
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