[Zambini]

Those damn Canucks

Strike that

Drunken Canucks

Where has bob351 been anyway?


Two U.S. F16 fighter jets escorted a plane back to Toronto on Friday after a passenger, apparently irate over an expensive purchase of cigarettes from an airport's duty-free shop, allegedly threatened the aircraft, authorities said.

Ali Shahi, 25, a Canadian man, began ripping apart magazines and the safety card from the pouch of his seat on a Panama City-bound Boeing 737 after he read in the in-flight magazine that cigarettes were cheaper to buy on the plane than in Pearson airport, where Flight 772 originated, the Toronto Star reported.

Soon after his outburst, Shahi allegedly uttered a threat against the aircraft, which was overheard by a flight attendant and reported to the captain.

The flight, which was flying over West Virginia at the time, then turned around back to Toronto, and was joined by a U.S. fighter escort. When it arrived at Pearson, at least six tactical police officers stormed the jet, repeatedly yelling at passengers “heads down, hands up.” As they ran past, one officer stayed up front pointing his gun, the Star reported.

Shahi, 25, has been charged with uttering threats and endangering the safety of an aircraft, police said.

No one aboard the flight, which carried 183 passengers and six crew members, was injured.

Shahi's father described his son to the Star as a troubled, mentally ill man.

“I blame it on the society here, the health system and the police system. We called police on him more than 23 times in two-three years,” said Sadegh Shahi, who said the family tried but could not force their son into a rehab program.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/20...o_toronto.html

[lkduke3]

They ought to have bullet-proof, sound-proof time-out rooms for unruly adults instead of turning the plane around and messing up 183 passengers' plans. Not to mention the trauma.

[Kelseecat65]

The video of the police storming the plane was pretty cool!!

[vipersna]

Who needs to buy cigs on a plane?

[Pyramid_Head]

I feel bad for the other passengers.

[Brometheus]

so when are we gonna get a "Heads down, Hands up" youtube song?

[Oswald2001]

“I blame it on the society here, the health system and the police system."

Of course you do, Achmed.

Of course you do.


The SWAT guys should have synchronized their "Heads down! Hands up!" mantra.

It was very confusing.

[hal0mega]

Maybe he just needed a few valium force fed to him.

[Sharon]

That just reminded me of the game at school, "heads down, thumbs up".

Crazy guy

[Mr Poo]

What a fucktard..