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What's your best "person got kicked off an airplane" story?

Hopefully it's not one about YOU getting kicked off (what happens to people who get kicked off anyway, do they go to jail or just get banned from the airline forever?)...mine is in November of 2008, this big guy was in line to board the plane and had a suitcase with him. The airline checker said, "Sir, your bag is too big, you'll have to check it" and the guy started yelling VERY LOUDLY: "Oh! So my bag is too big? People I want you to look at this bag and then look at THIS bag" and he held up his bag and the bag of an airline employee who was also boarding. Then he proceeded to rant and rave about this and that and said he's sick of it, etc. He was obviously nuts! He got onto the plane and got into his seat and then kept yelling out loud, talking to himself...then these 2 men came on board, waited til everyone was seated, and told him the captain asked him to leave! He started yelling again and I was terrified that a huge fight was going to ensue, but he ended up walking off peacefully and everyone clapped! I was too scared to clap....my parents told me they were on a flight overseas and this guy got wasted, started looking up women's skirts, and finally the passengers restrained him and ending up sitting on him until they landed and the police took him! Someone on that plane ride also told me a story that a woman refused to turn off/put away her laptop, and when the plane landed she was literally carried off....we had better listen to those airline stewards and stewardesses, even though some of them have major attitude and appear to be on HUGE power trips (although I think if I had to fly with a ton of mostly crazy people in a small space, I'd be authoritative too, just to protect myself!) Best answer = 10 points. Come on, peeps, give some true answers! Another story from wayyy long ago, obviously pre-911 -- my father in law and my husband missed the flight that my mother in law and other members of the family were on. During takeoff my mother-in-law started getting upset...then got hysterical...my brother-in-law told them they had to turn the plane around now or else turn around over Minnesota...so they turned the plane around!! They landed and the pilot informed everyone that "for the first time in Midway Airlines history, we're returning to the gate because of a certain woman!" Then they had to make the walk of shame all the way from the back of the plane and people were swearing at them! My brother-in-law didn't speak to his mom for 3 days, and the airline made them spend the night before flying out the next day. My husband is sure happy he wasn't on that plane! So, that is my fun in-law family, aren't I LUCKY????!!!! My friend was going thru security and wearing a blazer over a skimpy-ish tank top. They asked her to remove her jacket. All she said was, "could I please remove it in private" because she was embarrassed to show everyone her tank top and they pulled her aside, harassed her, interrogated her and finally let her go. They were NUTS! One tip that's saved me -- when putting your stuff thru the x-ray machine, remove your bag of toiletries/carry on things that have liquids etc and put it on the side of your big bag. They LOVE that and will whisk you thru, most likely -- the 2 times I've done that they haven't batted an eye -- other times they would always snag my bag and check the hand cleaner, etc., and other liquids -- if you separate the little bag from the little bag they immediately ID you as an experienced traveler. Try it!

Public Comments

1. I have no stories. Sorry. I've never witnessed anyone getting kicked off the plane.
2. An old lady thought this Indian dude was a terrorist. saw him lighting up a cigarette and thought it was a bomb. Yelling "TERRORIST" he was tackled by Marines, a gun to his neck. His friend too was tackled. They both got taken to Guantanamo Bay so i've heard. cough *best answer" cough ( if u want , plz :d) hehe
3. Umm, it wasn't on an airplane but one time a couple of my friends and I got drunk and decided to walk into Bergstrom International Airport wearing skullcaps and prayers shawls...long story short, we got stopped, inspected(in some places i never wanted another man to touch, might i add) and a good lecture. that should be on jackass 4 :)...
4. Best I got is when I was 13 going through security on my way to Florida and had my school scissors in my back pack, needless to say I got brought to a small room where the emptied my back, and started asking me questions. I told him they were barely sharp enough to cut paper...he tried and failed. Edit-woot a story with Minnesota in it..I live there haha
5. Some ghetto princess absolutely REFUSED to remove her 3.4 oz perfume from her Baby Phat bag (gross). She got so hysterical and copped such an attitude that she was formally removed by security. She never made it past the metal detectors because she got irate. Meanwhile, I had a 3.4 oz perfume of my own in my bag (at a time when the rule was very new and I hadn't heard of it yet) and was allowed to board. Maybe some manners would have saved her the embarrassment and expense of a plane ticket. This one wasn't on my flight but it's still pretty relevant: My parents flew to Ireland on the same plane as an elderly man who got progressively more demented as the flight wore on. He was supposedly ranting about terrorists (this was in the summer of 2002) and some Italian kid who apparently looked Arab to him. They couldn't land the plane in the ocean or turn around, so when they landed apparently there were an ambulance and police escorts waiting. My dad was a doctor and tried to offer his help, but without knowing the old guy's medical history it would have been way too risky to administer any of the limited supply of drugs kept on board the plane. He was given oxygen but that really didn't do much for the poor old guy. Unfortunately, his little episode was at a time when the 9/11 fear was still very potent and airlines weren't taking ANY risks. According to my dad, his 90-year-old wife was "randomly selected" for a security search before boarding.
6. Well... we were on a flight departing from Miami and were 3rd for departure after a 2-hour delay + 10 flights departing before ours, so this lady stands up and starts walking down the aisle when one of the flight attendants asks her to go back to her seat... she starts yelling that she has to go to the bathroom, and the flight attendant replied that she had to wait until after takeoff, she said she didn't want to wait and began insulting the flight attendant (federal crime)... so the pilot took the plane back to the gate. They removed her and her family from the plane, as well as their baggage. Thanks to that lovely woman we had to go back into the line, being again 10th or so flight for departure.
7. I am an Air Hostess and have a million stories. Best one the captain on the flight off loaded his wife !
8. my mom told me when she was a kid there were these guys in their early 20's getting drunk on the plane and they went into the lavatory and set off the fire alarm and so the plane was all loud with sirens and stuff and scared the crap out of my grandma and her