As with the above article, here’s a story which makes my fists clench involuntarily:
A female American Airlines employee was left permanently scarred after a male passenger repeatedly punched her, according to a report.
The reported incident happened on Monday night when Bruce Luke Machiavelo, 29, from Fairfield County, Connecticut, was on a flight from Miami to LaGuardia Airport in New York.
Machiavelo had told a flight attendant that he suffers from panic attacks and that he wanted to retrieve his medication that was in his checked luggage, according to a Miami-Dade police report. Once the attendant explained to the passenger that he wasn’t going to be able to get his medication, he told her that he ‘took planes down with panic attacks in the past’, the report said.
Machiavelo was then escorted off the aircraft, arrested and hit with multiple charges including aggravated battery, battery, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.
When he was taken off the airplane, Machiavelo reportedly pushed and screamed at the American Airline’s manager who approached him, police said. He punched her several times in the face before he threw her to the floor, causing her to bash her head on the gangway, according to authorities. As he rushed off the plane, Machiavelo also shoved a gate agent to the floor, leading her to injure her hands.
The manager was taken to a nearby hospital with permanent scarring to her face and head, the report said.
So you know you suffer from panic attacks, yet you pack your meds into checked luggage and not in a carry-on bag?
And then go Full Raving Psycho Loony when your ridiculous requests aren’t met?
Here’s my first question: would anyone have a problem with the cops giving this punk a savage beating before slamming his ass in a cell?
Second question: would anyone have a problem with this asshole being forced to pay for the hapless woman’s medical treatment and plastic surgery?
If you say “No, I have no problem with your suggestions, Kim” to both the above questions, then we can be friends.
To be honest, I’ve sometimes wanted to go nuts when some airline employee enforces some ridiculous airline regulation on me. The difference is that I haven’t. And nor should this asshole, but clearly he’s been accustomed to have his every wish granted in the past, purely because of his “panic attacks”.
Well, fuck him and all the people of his ilk.
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...as once again, we see the perils of letting Spell Check edit your newspaper.
