Maybe instead of getting a vaccine before thinking about boarding a plane, as Dr. Anthony Fauci recently suggested, passengers should just be given a tranquilizer to numb their senses.
The long list of passengers behaving badly got longer over the past few days, with two incidents reported on the East Coast.
An angry man and his wife who refused to wear their masks properly were booted from a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego on Sept. 8 after yelling at flight attendants before takeoff, according to NBC News.
On Sunday, Connecticut state troopers arrested two women at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks who were accused of yelling and swearing at two young children during a flight, according to the Journal Inquirer in Manchester.
These stories of passengers being arrested have become a regular occurrence during the pandemic. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it has issued more than $1 million in fines to unruly airline passengers so far in 2021, a CNN story said last week. That story also noted that the Federal Aviation Authority in 2019 conducted 146 investigations into unruly passengers. So far in 2021, that number has exceeded 700 and continues to climb, the story said.
In the JetBlue incident, a man was shown on a widely circulated video yelling at a flight attendant in the middle of the aircraft’s aisle as he was asked to leave the plane for not wearing a face mask. Airline officials said the couple was asked “multiple times but would not comply with the federal mask mandate,” NBC News reported.
The man complained in the midst of his tirade that he was only given one warning before becoming “verbally and physically aggressive toward crewmembers,” according to the story.
Eventually, both left the plane. No information was available on the penalties they would face, the story said.
In Connecticut, police said the women got irritated when children, ages 4 and 2, tapped and kicked the back of their seats. The women then started yelling at the children and their parents, using vulgar language, which unnerved other passengers, police said.
The Journal Inquirer reported that, according to police, the women were charged with breach of peace and impairing the morals of a minor. Their court date is Sept 28.
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