Watch: An Unhinged Passenger Sucker Punches a Flight Attendant for Not Letting Him Use the First Class Bathroom
KABC Los Angeles - A passenger was arrested after video captured him punching a flight attendant during a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles Wednesday.
Video of the mid-air assault showed the passenger punch the flight attendant in the back of the head while they were in the aisle.
A 30-second video posted on social media showed the flight attendant appearing to talk to the passenger before he turned his back. The suspect then walks toward the attendant and punches him before walking away.
The incident happened on American Airlines Flight 377. ...
A passenger on the plane told Eyewitness News ... that the suspect was restrained by other passengers and his hands were zip tied.
Before the assault, Kevin said the suspect began to whisper and said "There are 10 killers on the plane."
"About that time the female flight attendant heard this and ran him back into coach. He sat there for a few, and then the male flight attendant went back there and confronted the guy," Kevin said. "And the part of the video you see with him getting hit in the back of the head is him turning around, coming back to the front of the plane, and the guy just jumped up and hit him."
The unruly passenger was arrested by law enforcement when the plane landed at LAX.
As a species, we love to impress ourselves by pointing out how, "It was less than 70 years between the time the first human flight to the first humans walking on the moon." Well la-di-da. Congratulations, humanity. Good on you, people. Keep taking that victory lap.
Just don't forget to remind yourselves of the much more important point that it took just over 100 years for us to go from Orville Wright flying 120 feet across Big Kill Devil Hill to big devils turning plane aisles into kill hills. (I might've I tried too hard on that sentence, but I'm just going to press on.)
Fifty years after Kitty Hawk, commercial flying was the most elegant form of travel, with well dressed, polite people being waited on hand and foot by friendly, charming stewardi. Fifty-plus years after that, the Friendly Skies became the Wild West as we know them today. Given the fact that only a dozen people have their footprints in the moon dust, and this is the daily reality for hundreds of thousands of us, this is the real story of humankind.
The Tweet says this was over being denied the first class bathroom. The article doesn't mention it and just says this crackpot was talking ragtime and was told to knock it off. But at this point, does anyone really need an explanation? Everything about air travel is designed to push you to the limits of human endurance now. TSA will pass you through without even having you break stride on one trip, then on the next they keep you in line for an hour and give you an MRI the next. Flights are getting delayed all over the place. The terminal you're stuck waiting in is a blood-splattered scene of human suffering not seen since in this land since Civil War field hospitals. And when you do finally get on board, those shitty meals that inspired a million hack stand up bits are like a State Dinner at the White House compared to the 0.5 ounce bag of mini pretzels you get now. And you get to spend every second of the journey within an arm's reach of guys like Fisty McPunchy here, perpetually hair-triggered to throw knucks without a moment's notice.
If this was over the first class bathroom, can you blame the flight crew for not allowing the great unwashed to cross into the sacred holy land that is first class? You can't please everyone. This is a situation where Titanic rules need to be applied. Not "Women and Children First." But "Save the Aristocrats Who Paid for the Expensive Cabins and Let Those Filthy Irish Losers in Steerage Swim for New York." If I've always assumed that if the plane was going down, the section I'm sitting in would jettison and cockpit and first class would glide safely down and gently kiss the tarmac anyway. I never once had the unmitigated gall to think I could actually take a whizz in their royal, gold-plated, lilac-scented bathrooms. So anyone with the audacity to even ask deserves the beating, not the crew member who denied them.
That said, credit where it's due to this flight attendant. That guy took a punch. I'm not saying this passenger was Mike Tyson in his prime, mind you. But he came with a full head of steam and a windup and reportedly did no damage. Probably because he's used to the abuse by now, working in a metal tube 30,000 feet in the air waiting on the terrible degenerates who fly in 2022.
Once again I have no choice but to lift a great line from Dennis Miller when he said, "Air travel is so bad now, when was the last time you heard about a hijacking? The terrorists are like, 'I'm still down with the cause. But getting me on a commercial flight now is too much to ask.'" Truer words were never spoken.