About halfway through a flight from Barbados to South Florida, a passenger became enraged because he felt that flight attendants were not sufficiently deferential to him. He insulted them and demanded that they “get the Captain out here.” He shoved one flight attendant and pinned another up against the cockpit door before another passenger lifted him up and forced him back into his seat.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’RE MINE, OFFICER?: A woman claimed that the pants she was wearing were not hers when police found methamphetamine in her pocket after they pulled her over for a traffic violation in Bedford, Ind.
HOW YOU GALS DOIN’?: Officials have released “frisky teenage” stallions into New Forest National Park in England for breeding purposes after keeping them in an isolated field for most of the year to help manage population numbers. They have urged visitors to give the animals a wide berth. “The stallions … haven’t seen a girl for ten months, (and the female) ponies haven’t seen a boy for ten months,” one said. “It gets quite enthusiastic.”
I’LL BE BACK: A driver ran over a crosswalk sign near a school in Lincoln, Neb., at 2:30 in the morning, and then returned later to run over another crosswalk sign.
NO MA’AM, WE DON’T HAVE A DRIVE-THRU WINDOW: A woman had a heated argument with her boyfriend in the parking lot of Family Dollar store in Nashville, Tenn., after which he fled. But she followed him in her pickup truck, ramming the vehicle right into the store. She then pulled out and drove around the building “attempting to locate him” before driving away.
WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO, ARREST ME?: A 69-year-old man has been driving on the roads of Derbyshire, England, without a license for the past 50 years, managing to fool insurance companies into covering his car. Unfortunately, he started bragging about his clever plan, and the cops swooped down on him, seizing his vehicle and charging him with numerous offences.
YOU HEARD ME!: A woman pulled up to the drive-thru window of a McDonald’s in Cocoa, Fla., and demanded a “cheeseburger bundle” which the restaurant does not carry. When informed of this, she pulled out a gun and pointed it at the employee. The cops came and arrested her.
THEY’LL NEVER CATCH US! … UH OH!: Two teenagers in a stolen car drove off an overpass in Minnesota as they tried to escape police who were chasing them. It landed on its roof and flipped over, coming to rest right-side-up after which they both exited the vehicle and took off running across I-94. The cops soon caught up with them.
SO YOU SEE I’M IMPROVING, YOUR HONOR: Last year, a woman was banned from driving in Perthshire, Scotland, for 16 months for drunk driving after registering a roadside reading of nearly seven times the legal limit. But she violated the court order and was arrested again, this time with a blood-alcohol level of only six times the legal limit.