No chicken for you!
You’d think everyone would have learned by now that you simply don’t mess around on commercial airline flights post-9/11.
But one American Airlines passenger just couldn’t contain his outrage when a stewardess informed him that the flight crew had run out of chicken dinners and that he’d have to eat beef.
Putting aside the fact that avoiding any airline meal should be counted as a blessing, this particular passenger on a flight from Switzerland to New York raised such a ruckus that he was charged with assault.
In U.S. v. Delis, the passenger argued that he had simply pushed a flight attendant’s hand away from his face and, because he had no intent to injure, his conviction could not stand.
But the 2nd Circuit concluded that simple assault under federal law does not require any finding of specific intent to injure.
“As a result, the Magistrate Judge’s finding that [the passenger] possessed the intent to commit an offensive touching was entirely sufficient to support the judgment of conviction,” the court said.
