Passenger, 25, 'groped airline steward after drinking pint of whisky'

UK Daily Mail ^ | 15th September 2011 | Arthur Martin

[ConservativeStatement]

A woman teacher groped a Virgin Atlantic steward at 33,000ft and demanded sex after drinking a pint of whisky, a court heard.

Katherine Goldberg grabbed the man's groin during a flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow, it is alleged. The 25-year-old is accused of sexual assault and being drunk in an aircraft.

[swain_forkbeard]

Who should have been unconscious? The steward?

Given time, maybe 4 hours, I guess I could drink a pint of 80 proof without passing out.

[Red Badger]

Guilty, but not after I drank a pint of whiskey. Oh who am I kidding not after a couple of beers.

Oh, heck, Chablis and brie.......

[Charles Martel]

Seeing that the flight was bound for Heathrow...

[Night Hides Not]

I hope it was something worth the trouble, like Jameson or Maker’s Mark.

Somewhere out there, George Thorogood is writing a song about this. Songs about booze are in his wheelhouse.

[agere_contra]

Disagree FRiend.

I have been variously hit on/clung to by drunk women in public places: it’s a profoundly unpleasant experience.

Anyone who encourages the advances of a profoundly drunk woman is taking ignoble advantage: and that’s assuming neither party is married.

(Of course in the present case we have a drunk staggering about the aisle of a passenger jet. No-ones going to be up for that anyway.)

[Night Hides Not]

So.....if you give a woman a pint of whiskey.....sales of whiskey are way up this morning.

Just damn...my wife hates whiskey.

[null and void]

We know...
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[Lazamataz]

I have been variously hit on/clung to by drunk women in public places: it’s a profoundly unpleasant experience.

[blueunicorn6]

So she groped him when they hit 33,000 feet and then demanded sex after she drank a pint of whiskey. Not at 32,999 feet....she does have her standards.

[ConservativeStatement]

...”ain’t nobody’s business but my own.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

She was just doing her best impersonation of a TSA agent but it got a little...out of hand!

[the invisib1e hand]

whatever. i reiterate.

[WoofDog123]

drinking excessively and then behaving very badly on airplanes seems to be an english thing, I have seen a few of these stories hit over the last few years.

[FromTheSidelines]

Not all of them, however...;) Got an acquaintance who was a steward for 8 years. He specifically went into it because he IS a hound dog (I think his personal quest was to make Wilt Chamberlain seem chaste). Said he could usually get 2-3 women from any flight if he desired...

Also said that about half the stewards were light in the loafers, but the other half were in their job not for the glamour (none) or pay (small), but the sheer number of women you could get (fringe benefits).

[Oztrich Boy]

Oh Katherine, he just wasn't man enough for you.

[caveat emptor]

A PINT??? 473 ML????

Sometimes a "pint" isn't a pint. A "pint" of whiskey is half of a "fifth" (of a gallon). Actually not. It's more complicated since metrication.

[Shimmer1]

2-3 women from any flight....

and that didn’t count the stewardesses.

[GreenLanternCorps]

A PINT??? 473 ML???? He should have been unconscious!

It comes in pints???

[Erasmus]

I once dated a Continental Airlines stewardess (they were still called that at the time).

She asked me if I had heard the news that Continental was going to merge with Aer Lingus.

“No, I hadn’t heard that.”

“Yes. They’re going to call it Con-a-Lingus.”