A 66 year-old woman was on her way to Hawaii, to enjoy the sun n’sand of the Honolulu beaches, when her vacation parade got rained on mid-air on a Continental flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu - by one man - 28 year old Jerome Kenneth King-zio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Apparently the lady was on her way to Honolulu on March 21 for a scuba-diving vacation, when the perp, who was sitting in the row beind her on the plane, stood up and started urinating on her. He had been drinking on-flight, and pestering other passengers too.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Kobayashi sentenced Jerome Kenneth King-zio to 3 weeks in prison, followed by 6 months of supervised release and substance-abuse treatment.

This kind of thing used to happen on the San Diego beaches at beach parties before they banned alcohol, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it happening on a flight.

Speaking of loose snakes on a flight, four baby snakes (Stimson’s pythons) managed to get out of their container (which had a total of 12 pythons, each about 15 cms) aboard a Quantas plane enroute from Alice Springs in Melbourne.

All 4 went on the lam, and flights were cancelled as staff searched in vain for the juvenile escapees on the Boeing 737-800. Apparently these pythons, especially the small ones, are not dangerous, and often are kept as pets. Even so, the plane was fumigated to ensure ‘termination’ of the baby pythons.

Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Thomas
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