Raging Smoker on Southwest Airlines Flight Throws Peanuts at Flight Crew

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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/07/15/southwest.electronic.cigarette/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]

[quote]An airline passenger is accused of assaulting and intimidating flight attendants after he allegedly become furious when he was asked to put away his electronic cigarette. The incident happened Monday on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, according to a complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in Utah.
During the boarding process, Pogos Paul Sefilian brought out an electronic cigarette and began to smoke it on board, court papers say.
Electronic cigarettes look like the real thing, but they're actually battery-operated devices that turn nicotine into a vapor that is inhaled by the user, [URL="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm225210.htm"]according to the FDA[/URL].
When a flight attendant told Sefilian that the electronic cigarette was not allowed on board, he argued with her but put the device away, according to the complaint.
But not for long.
Sefilian took the e-cigarette out after takeoff and began to smoke it again, prompting the flight attendant to again ask him to put it away, court papers say.
"This enraged Sefilian and he began to loudly argue with the flight attendant," according to the complaint.
"Later in the flight, he began to throw peanuts and pretzels at the flight attendant and towards the flight deck door."
As the plane approached Salt Lake City, Sefilian stood and began opening the overhead compartments, court papers say.
Fight attendants asked him several times to close the bins and sit down, but he refused and "postured his chest out" at the crew, according to the complaint.
FBI agents met the flight when it landed and arrested Sefilian. He is accused of interference with a flight crew.
Sefilian's attorney has not responded to a request for comment.[/quote]
Some people need to just be smacked into submission.

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[werner]

KILL THEM ALL WITH PEANUTS !!"!

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So why couldn't he use an e-cigarette on a plane?

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[QUOTE=Contag;31135315]So why couldn't he use an e-cigarette on a plane?[/QUOTE]Rules are rules, as stupid as they are. Somebody will always complain.

[Karmah]

I thought electronic cigarettes aren't harmful for anyone but the user?

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[QUOTE=Karmah;31135661]I thought electronic cigarettes aren't harmful for anyone but the user?[/QUOTE]People like to complain, they want to avoid it, so they ban it.