Yet another airline passenger faces criminal charges for assaulting a flight attendant. According to a Fox News report, American Airlines passenger Robert Croizat pleaded guilty to attacking the cabin crew because of a dispute over choices on the in-flight menu on a flight from Barbados to Miami.
According to a criminal complaint made public by the New York Post, on March 8, Croizat berated flight attendants when he was told vegetarian meals were available only in first class. According to the court records, the passenger was angry “because he believed [the flight attendant] had been rude to him.” He is also accused of pushing one flight attendant after she told him not to touch her; refusing to sit down when instructed to do so; and demanding that the cabin crew “get the captain out here,” according to the complaint.
After more pushing and shoving involving more flight attendants and some other passengers, Croizat, who admitted to having two drinks on board the flight, finally took his seat, though he continued to complain.
The captain contacted air traffic control and said there had been an attempt to breach the cockpit and Croizat was arrested after the flight landed in Miami. According to his attorney, the felony charge of “interference with a flight crew” was reduced to a misdemeanor assault charge. In a statement, the attorney said, “This incident was entirely out of character for Mr. Croizat and represented an overreaction which he regrets.”
Vegetarian meals are available in coach if they have meal service. All you have to do is notify the airline when you book. Also, what the hell is the matter with people? Behave. Were you raised by wolves?
Wolves wouldn’t tolerate such behaviour within their pack either…
Not at all. Wolfes in pack behave much, much better than humans. They have respect for the alfas (male and female) and they pets. Humans are the worst form of animals.
It’s the new normal – “It’s all about me”.
Besides, respect, self-discipline, self-control, and common courtesy are SOOOO 20th-century.
/sarc
Dick.
I don’t think that’s an option for a vegetarian.
He’s going to give us vegetarians a bad name.
The same thing happened to me while flying business class and the flight attendant recommended a red with my fish course. What are we, animals?
Philistines!
Lol….no kidding! Red with fish? Blah!!
Yes. Humans are animals. But the worst of them all.
Doesn’t say, but I wonder if he was having a blood sugar issue? Ie, low blood sugar makes it more difficult for a person to think clearly. Not trying to justify unacceptable behavior at all.
Need emergency “Reese’s” dispensers within easy reach.
This could be the next Snickers commercial.
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian…
Just eat the bun and the fries and the hot apple pie.
Needs to be put on the No Fly list.
Not true if “fly” is a noun.
Charge was reduced to a misdemeanor assault?! There is the problem. The district attorney should not have reduced the charge from interference with flight crew. As long as DA’s are willing to reduce charges, this behavior will continue. Where is the FAA on this?
Do you really think this guy did some sort of rational cost-benefit analysis or had any awareness of possible or likely criminal penalties before shoving the cabin crew?
Anyone who buys a coach ticket and expects real food is delusional. Where has this assaultive moron been for the last 20 years and why did they reduce the charges.
“The captain contacted air traffic control and said there had been an attempt to breach the cockpit”
This is outright incorrect reporting. The airlines/ATC use disturbance levels and breach of cockpit is the highest which carries its own felony weight and charge.
The copy pasta from other news articles to this page is getting insane enough to just stop coming around.
Kevin: The New York Post – which numerous other news outlets reported had acquired the text of the court documents – quoted directly from the complaint that the captain told ATC there was an attempted breach. The defendant’s lawyer later claimed that his client never “stormed” the cockpit, and if there were some understandable misunderstanding on that point (the cabin crew had placed a beverage cart in the aisle between the passenger and the cockpit door – perhaps out of an abundance of caution), that could help explain the diminished charge. Does that make sense?
Oh! do you want vegetarian food?! we have a special for you, just a min.
Here it is!
WHAT? a full salame?! I SAID I AM VEGETARIAN!
Well, if you don’t want it, seat on it, it would calm you down… LOL
Nothing will happen…….NOTHING……….No changes and there will be another dickhead customer right behind him on another flight. They need not even report this any longer. And he will be on another flight soon.
Regardless of your cuisine, it is inexcusable to hassle the flight attendants because of food. This is like the morons hat accost the waitress in a restaurant because their food is not prepared to their liking. Only in a pressurized metal tube thousands of feet in the air, there is no where to send them. Probably why the FAA has rules that they don’t enforce properly, or judges that dismiss same. As others have stated, this will happen again, possibly by this same idiot. And the “out of character….which he regrets” is about as lame as you can get. He had “a couple of drinks” – so so he IS responsible for his actions. I don’t want him or any like him on my flights.
Where is the Vulcan neck pinch when we really need it?
He shouldn’t complain because he could have had a USAF box lunch, instead. Ate many of those during my Army career.