We Should Probably Put an End to Drinking on Planes
Sunday, January 24, 2010 
I’m all for getting a buzz on. Don’t get me wrong. But, in this day and age of strip searches, security line bummers, and people freaking out about flying, why do we still allow drinking on planes?
A jetliner flying from Washington D.C.to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver International Airport on Saturday after a passenger tried to open a door on the plane while it was in flight.
Federal sources told NBC News that the man allegedly was intoxicated and was subdued by other passengers.
DIA spokesman Jeff Green said that United Flight 223 was diverted to Denver at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, and police who met the plane at the gate took the passenger into custody.
Green said the police were interviewing the passenger Saturday night but did not know if the man would be charged.
Yeah, they’ll probably just give him a Mulligan and the whole thing will be forgotten.
Meanwhile, the idea that drinking on a plane is still accepted practice—is that even viable anymore? Has anyone else posited that there are just some old traditions and practices that have to fall by the wayside if we’re to be a safer, more alert, and more security conscious people?
I have long adopted the belief that, if a terrorist wants to kill you, they’re going to kill you. But you have it as your responsibility to try and stop him if possible. You are the best guarantee of survival you have. You are obligated to help stop these insane people. That goes for everyone else who screws up on a plane, and writes things to the pilot or defecates on the service cart or goes after some poor Jewish kid with prayer boxes hanging on him. You have to help straighten them out.
The government has a responsibility to serve as a common sense gatekeeper. Don’t let the dude with Semtex and a Glock on the plane, please. Don’t let the nervous man with the boombox that no longer works with the red and blue wires hanging out of it and running to the seat of his pants get on the plane. Don’t let gramma and her special pair of stainless steel knitting needles on the plane.
Are we now at a point where we have to end drinking on planes because we have too many stressed and freaked out people who can’t conform to basic travel responsibilities? It is NOT like the old days. This is a new time and era. This is a time when, and I’m surprised it didn’t happen, an air marshal probably could have or should have outright killed the man in question.
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