Posted on 07/09/2011 7:39:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Chicago-To-Germany Flight Diverted Because Of Unruly Passenger
July 8, 2011 6:05 PM
Federal agents investigate after a disruption on an international flight from Chicago to Germany that was diverted to Cleveland. (Photo provide by a passenger)
Federal agents investigate after a disruption on an international flight from Chicago to Germany that was diverted to Cleveland.
CHICAGO (WBBM) – Some Chicagoans have quite a story to tell about a flight from O’Hare to Frankfort, Germany that was diverted Friday to Cleveland when a passenger was found hiding in the bathroom and went ballistic when he was confronted.
Joe Shulfer of Woodstock had his noise-cancelling headphones on and was sitting by himself on United Airlines Flight 944.
“The flight attendant just ran up to me and literally grabbed me by the shirt and said, ‘You need to come with me now,’” the passenger told Newsradio 780.
They came upon three men wrestling with another passenger who, Shulfer learned, had been in the restroom for 20 or 30 minutes and wouldn’t come out.
They handcuffed the suspicious passenger and tied up his feet, but he started spitting and swearing, Shulfer says.
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Lots of instruction from a very tough street dojo, back when it mattered. Fortunately lots of learning and theory and practice, and a lot less real “hands on”, which others engaged in. Very pragmatic place.
Nein.
These men, mere amatures, managed to cuff him and tie up his legs without a glock, taser or baton. Imagine that.
Maybe they could give some classes for some of our meat head police officers who don’t know how to make an arrest without a heavy dose of brutality.
Realman30 wrote”The flight was on the way to Germany, therefore, the man was a German. That explains the accent.”
Really? How did you KNOW that he was a German?
“CLEVELAND — A Cleveland Municipal Court judge set a $1 million bond this morning for the Saudi Arabian man who caused a United flight from Chicago to Frankfurt to land unscheduled July 8 at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
The FBI and Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath had arrested Saleh Ali S. Alramakh, aka Saleh Ali S. Alramaleh, 21, of Riyadh Saudi Arabia, on Monday.”
http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/197374/3/Passenger-on-flight-diverted-to-Cleveland-held-on-1M
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