The naked truth about flying
With two incidents of naked men stripping while in flight, some bloggers are wondering whether nudity is a greater threat than terrorists.
"As more and more of these crazy people start popping up, it would appear our flights are more at risk from the mentally insane, than terrorists. It’s a shame the TSA can’t perform a simple sanity check before letting people board their flight," wrote Travel blog Gadling.com.
The latest incident involved Southwest Flight 947 bound for St. Louis from Oakland. The flight had to return after a man exposed himself to a woman seated next to him, according to police accounts.
She screamed. The man started yelling and the man struck her. Other passengers then wrestled the300-pound man as the plane flew home.
"When he exposed himself, the woman next to him did what she should do, which was to scream," Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office told The Chicago Tribune. "Her scream apparently upset him, and he ended up punching her."
The other incident happened about two months ago when a man stripped naked on a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles. He also had to be subdued by the cabin crew and passengers. As in the first incident, the man was taken into custody when the plane diverted to Albuquerque.
By David Wilkening
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