Someone Behaving Badly I
This entry
doesn't fit in the convenient and yet less than all-encompassing categories such
as Passengers Behaving Badly and Airlines Behaving Badly, as the individual
involved was neither an airline nor a passenger. Though he did work (and the
operative word here is 'did', past tense) for US Airways, but they really had
no involvement with the activities of their employee. The employee in question
is, of course, the mental giant that was caught after smuggling a gun through
security for a friend. The now ex-airline employee has announced that he is
mortified, yes mortified, at his lapse in judgment.
It's hard
to say exactly what the individual involved should be feeling. I imagine a few
weeks in the pokey with gentlemen who go by the handles Rob, Richard, and
Razorface should bring a whole new outlook on his 'lapse in judgment'. Really, as
a man I have, like most men performed acts that in retrospect were both
remarkably stupid and undeniably boneheaded. But I usually did them while in my
teens and twenties. By the time I turned thirty I had modified my behavior
enough that incredibly stupid acts were no longer a daily occurrence, and
normally only undertaken while under the influence of immense amounts of
alcoholic beverages or because of a desire for sex. Cold sober, and not in the
immediate presence of the female of the species and I could go weeks or even
months without breaking a couple of thousand laws. Apparently the gentleman in
question was in his late thirties, an age when we men have left the follies of
youth behind and not yet experienced the blockheaded ruination that comes with
our mid-life crises'. This is not applicable if you're a) a Republican, b) hold
public office and c) trumpet on about family values, in which case all bets are
off.
I have to
say, it takes all kinds of industrial grade stupid to do something like trying
to smuggle a gun on to an airplane in this day and age. Welcome to the ranks of
the unemployed, Einstein, but don't worry, I'm pretty sure Homeland Security
has no intention of allowing you to waste away on the streets. There's a cozy
little cell waiting right over there.
