# Air rage and a great misplaced modifier

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-rage-and-a-great-misplaced-modifier/335525>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-rage-and-a-great-misplaced-modifier/335525 "2005-12-14T02:17:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-rage-and-a-great-misplaced-modifier/335525/1 "2005-12-14T02:17:41Z")

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The Drudge Report links to [this story](http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,98623,00.html) in The Electric New Paper, about a couple that was arrested for having sex in an airplane lavatory and then getting belligerent when made to stop.

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> A passenger told The Sun: ‘They were asked politely to return to their seats but went ballistic. They were shouting vile abuse and spitting at staff.’
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> Another said: ‘The captain tried to calm them down but they were just as abusive to him.’
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> And **despite being restrained with plastic handcuffs, the pilot decided he had no choice but to divert the 777 jet to Bermuda**.

Geez. That pilot must be quite the man if he flew that 777 all the way to Bermuda while in handcuffs.

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-rage-and-a-great-misplaced-modifier/335525/2 "2005-12-14T02:40:48Z")

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They should have let the passengers have a go at them. That’d learn’em to divert the flight!