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Summary

Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth restrained a Canadian man with duct tape after he allegedly attempted to open a cabin door mid-flight, claiming he was the “captain” and needed to exit.

The man became aggressive, injuring a flight attendant as he rushed toward the door.

Several passengers, including Doug McCright and Charlie Boris, subdued him, using duct tape to secure his hands and ankles.

Authorities detained the man upon landing, and the incident remains under investigation.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Toothbrush

Headphones

Neck pillow

DUCT TAPE.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because of the way this headline is phrased, I am forced to assume that "who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight" is a clause, and that the passengers duct taped this man to the state of Texas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The year is 2024. Publications no longer need to save headline space by ignoring common punctuation usage. Why do they still do this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

People’s brains are so baked by the dopamine slot machine of the internet that the most compelling part has to be put in the first couple words or people won’t read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tradition is always a terrible reason to do something poorly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The headline is perfectly understandable though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the passengers duct taped the guy to Texas.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

They duct taped him TO TEXAS?!?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

including Doug McCright and Charlie Boris

Should I know these guys?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I can’t believe you forgot the members of Dirty Mike and the Boys

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

There was a CSI episode with a situation similar to this. Of course, since it's CSI, the way that turned out was the mentally ill person was killed (and the episode was about the passengers/crew subtly covering for each other).

Nice case of how in real life, people avoid harm when possible, and in fiction, people are all secretly ruthless savages out for each other's blood.

Oh; I should say, in fiction, and for police, who similarly live in fiction-land.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Duct tape fixes everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

In a Boeing, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a certain Airforceproud95 video.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No idea what you're talking about

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