Man killed on American Airlines flight

Denver Rocky Mountain News ^ | December 7, 2005 | Associated Press

[thoughtomator]

Gardner said she heard the woman say her husband was bipolar and had not had his medication.

Send her the bill then, she's liable.

[msnimje]

2005 version of "No yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater!"

[madison10]

Gardner said she heard the woman say her husband was bipolar and had not had his medication.

Were they TRYING to cause an incident? Where was the medicine...baggage? The marshals did the right thing.

[Cobra64]

It is amazing that it takes days for someone to figure out where the perp was shot.

*rolling eyes*

[Redbob]

Shouldn't they perhaps have wondered how he got the aleged "bomb" through security?

OTOH, shouldn't his wife have made sure he was medicated to the gills before he went to get on an airplane, if he was "bipolar"?

[CharlesWayneCT]

IF HE WAS ON THE JETWAY, HE WAS NOT ON THE FLIGHT!!!!

The Media can't get anything right. The Jetway is part of the airport, not part of the airplane. He was shot in the AIRPORT, not on the flight.

I bet they wouldn't have shot him on the plane, they probably would have been close enough to disable him. It was when he ran down the jetway that he opened space (and probably moved into an empty area, making a shot safer).

[headstamp]

From what I'm hearing so far, this looks like a righteous shoot.

[FlipWilson]

This story will serve as the perfect illustrator of the no win situation Bush is in. In one corner, you will have the 9/11 Commission members spouting that this is proof we are not prepared. In the other corner you will have the ACLU and the libs ranting that this person's due process rights were violated and that marshals should not be allowed on planes.

In other words, "Do something to protect us Mr. President, but not anything that would actually protect us."

[JamesP81]

Passenger Mary Gardner told WTVJ in Miami that the man ran down the aisle from the rear of the plane. "He was frantic, his arms flailing in the air," she said. She said a woman followed, shouting, "My husband! My husband!" Gardner said she heard the woman say her husband was bipolar and had not had his medication.

If that's the case, then it's truly tragic, but what are you supposed to do? You can't just ignore something like that.

[YouPosting2Me]

Lead poisoning

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...A witness said the man frantically ran down the aisle and a woman with him said he was mentally ill....

Not any more.

[muffaletaman]

Message to terrorist:

Forget about it!

[SteveMcKing]

"KIDS - BIPOLAR DISORDER IS A SERIOUS TOPIC, MMM-KAY??"

[RasterMaster]

Mental patients should be shipped by bus...or packed tightly in their white coats and sent by train.

[sit-rep]

He was mentally ill...

[GianniV]

The wife of this woman will speak at the Democrat National Convention in '08 about how the oppressive Bush regime killed her husband.

[dfwgator]

Now he's no-polar.

[Izzy Dunne]

The wife of this woman will speak at the Democrat National Convention

You just made it WAAAAAY more complicated...

[Cobra64]

I agree. Then again, the media is usually clueless anyhow.