A visibly intoxicated passenger refused to step off a Delta Air Lines flight in Dallas, forcing police officers to deboard the entire plane before handcuffing her and pulling her off. Did she really think that giving officers the silent treatment was going to work?
Drunk Karen Hauled Off Delta Flight In Handcuffs After Refusing To Get Off Herself
Police bodycam footage from last year, but just posted this week, shows officers boarding a Delta flight a Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). A woman seated in a middle seat is sitting quietly with her eyes closed. When quizzed by officers, she remains silent, though as they continue to press her she finally starts talking.
Immediately, it is clear that she is intoxicated…she slurs her words and makes no sense.
Fair enough..it happens. She was invited to grab her bags and step off the aricraft. At this point, she was not under arrest and not in any trouble. But she refused. She said she didn’t like Texas and wanted to get out. Police officers practically begged her to get off the plane peaceably.
When it became clear that she would not, the police ordered everyone else off the airplane. Why? Because hauling someone off the plane against their will often creates a spectacle and that’s not something law enforcement officers or airlines generally like to be broadcast over social media.
The woman apparently had downed Prosecco followed by tequila shots while onboard and later admitted to consuming six glasses of wine while waiting for her delayed flight.
Yeah, that’s going to do it…
She kept confusing police officers for airline staff, another clear sign she was drunk. As police officers placed her into a squad car, she wailed, “All I did was try and peacefully get out of a f*cking plane!” No, too late Karen.
As she sat down in the police car, she asked, “Can I please have a cigarette? I need a cigarette! Can I please just have one ciggy?”
No, Karen.
Here’s the video:
On the whole, I think he police handled this matter very professionally. I don’t care for officers yelling at other passengers to, “Leave your stuff! Leave your stuff!” onboard, though I also understand that the point was to quickly deboard, pull the woman off, and then get the passengers back on board and on their way.
CONCLUSION
Delta needs to send this woman a bill for the delay. At the very least, it had to pay its flight crew extra for what happened.
This conduct is disgusting. I shine light on it as a constant reminder that alcohol should be consumed responsibly, especially when flying.
image: screen grab Police Watch / YouTube
Leaving stuff on board increases the risk of theft. If the passengers are not allowed to reboard soon, it can also create problems. They should just grab and drag her.
Six glasses of wine ( one bottle ) + Prosecco + tequila = one irresponsible traveler. Airport bars should charge an insurance fee that covers the costs incurred by alcohol abuse.
What are you? a king? ordering Delta to send her a bill for the delay?
It’s obvious that DFW police shouldn’t have had everyone deplane. DFW police should’ve just grabbed her out.
Indeed. There is no rational reason to have everyone deplane.
What is it with Delta and their Karens? My wife and I flew Delta for the first time in over a decade last week and had a huge Karen on our flight. We actually gave some Starbucks gift cards to the FA for being charming and gracious instead of putting the Karen in her place. The one redeeming thing about Karens though is that they make normal people look wonderful by comparison.
Karen’s are everywhere, not just Delta.
You can even find them in the Navy and the ER room.
Is there is no correlation between Delta and Karens.
In most states it is public record. It generally isn’t hard to get a hold of unless it is very incriminating of poor policy behavior. In those cases, the public is still entitled to it, but police agencies will fight, and a judge will usually have to demand its release.
On the other hand, when police do exceedingly well, they’ll release it without any public request. An example of this is Nashville’s most recent mass school shooting. Metro police responded promptly, and carried their duties out well. They released it in a matter of hours.
The police handled this incident fairly professionally, so I would imagine they released it to quell any sort of claims to the contrary by the offender.
This reply was to Anthony. I don’t know why it went here.
Alcoholism and alcohol related problems are far more pervasive than most people understand. Anyone who has “ … six glasses of wine … (and) Prosecco followed by tequila shots …” (and doesn’t pass out or drop dead) definitely has a problem with alcohol and is most likely an alcoholic. When I did Navy Alcohol Rehabilitation Training for Healthcare Professionals many years ago we were told that at any given time, even a Tuesday morning for example, 10% of drivers on the road are legally intoxicated. Witness also that during COVID shutdowns many states declared Liquor Stores to be “critical businesses” (and remain open) mainly to not have more people (in Alcohol Withdrawal, a life threatening emergency) sent to or go to (overwhelmed) Emergency Rooms.
FWIW and although it doesn’t affect her treatment by police and airport staff, from a purely medical viewpoint there are many other possible causes for her behavior including head injury, psychiatric illness, other drugs (intentional or unintentional). In an ER, at a bare minimum, she would have a blood alcohol level and if there were any signs of trauma a CT scan of her head (brain). For prognostic purposes ER staff learn to double or triple the amount of alcohol intake a patient reports. (Yes, seems like a lot but some people drink a lot.)
Police seem to allow a person much more time to cooperate. Relevant to this “Drunk Karen” report, most of us ER docs quickly adopt a plan that includes allowing a patient only a very brief time period and/or “1 strike” before we decide they are unlikely to be cooperative (until they’re sober) and also (temporarily) no longer capable of making their own healthcare decisions. At that point we’ll cease wasting time trying to reason with them and if they’re combative and/or a risk to themselves and/or staff we’ll quickly have them physically and/or pharmacologically restrained.
I always thought it would be wise to videotape intoxicated (combative, argumentative, cursing) patients in the ER and then have them watch the video when they were discharged ~8-10 hours later. Particularly for younger patients (1 ER where I worked was near a college) invariably at discharge their behavior was completely different and they alleged no memory of being combative and cursing at staff with the most vile language imaginable and being restrained. I used to point at a petite thin quiet nurse and tell them “last night you cursed at that angel of mercy and called her a ^%$%^*$ and an &*^&^%”, they denied it EVERY SINGLE TIME. I believe that if they saw a video of themselves it would be a learning moment for many of them. Unfortunately that was partly before smart phones were in common use and privacy issues always superseded. Were I still working today I’d video them with my phone, show them the video at discharge, immediately delete the video (most of the time 😉 ) and then deny deny deny if and when I’d have to respond to a lawsuit for violating their privacy or claim it was purely for treatment purposes.
The cost to society, and personal and medical problems, related to alcohol are MUCH greater than any other drug or substance. If alcohol was discovered today it would be an illegal controlled dangerous substance. Like cigarettes and cell phones not being automatically disabled (for calls and texts) when driving, only reason alcohol is not illegal and/or highly regulated is because it’s a billion dollar industry and societies & politicians have decided that corporate profits and interests have priority over human lives.
(Oh yeah, the number of commenters on a blog who are intoxicated often and/or when they comment is probably much higher than that 10%, especially those (like douchebag Dave Edwards and derek) who post nonsensical and/or nasty and/or vile and/or racist and/or just plain stupid and/or MAGA comments, which is why I personally visit this blog far less often and no longer respond to their drivel. And I haven’t forgotten that I was publicly chastised, and never saw an apology, on this blog for preemptively accosting one of the idiots a day or 2 before he/she posted again proving the accuracy of my comments.)
Thank you for your service in the Navy.
As for the rest, grow up crybaby. People don’t have to be drunk to post things you disagree with. You don’t get apologies online because someone upset your candy a$$.
By the way, we already knew you “claim” to be an ER doc by your handle. You could have saved time and space by not repeating it clown.
Also, the blog is gonna be fine with or without you. Matt is a smart enough businessman to understand what gets clicks for him and currently politics is it. And he also understands what it brings when one is a big enough believer in Free Speech as he is. Keep crying “Doc”.
Douchebag Dave Edwards “Freaks like you always root for the other freaks” and “turn opinion against you a$$ clowns” best self-owns in the history of self-owns. Look it up Douchebag because you’re obviously too f…ing stupid to know what it means. Nice to know you read every bit of my comments, to the end of an long comment, even though I ignore the vast majority of the drivel you post. Please consider psychiatric help for your obviously severe psychiatric illness or alcoholism or drug addiction. Please also take your thanks and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine, along with everything else you undoubtedly shove up there. (My apologies to everyone else for having to see this type of thing.)
Thanks for proving, assuming you really were a “Dr”, that they have plenty of human garbage in their ranks too.
As for your “service”, dressing up in a Cher video doesn’t count. It’s obvious you are an angry old man not happy with enjoying the $20 million you made in the ER. Instead you are angry that the blog owner hurt your feelings and I’m owning you online.
Step up your game “Doc”, you are an embarrassment to your Grandkids and Great Grandkids.
Douchebag: Everything you wrote is factually INcorrect and believe it or not there’s no such thing as “alternative facts”. But thanks for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt your need for psychiatric care and/or detox. Please get the help you obviously so desperately need and then crawl back under whatever rock you crawled out from and don’t let the rock crush your miniscule stupid uneducated toxic pathologic nasty racist bigoted sociopathic MAGA brain in the process. Have a nice life … not.
Just here to tell you I didnt read all that shit.
Ever since that Dao idiot cried like a little b@tch we all suffer for it. Pull them off, drag them off, taser them, whatever, just get them off and move on.
This appears to be official police bodycam footage. Basic question to lawyers or anyone else with knowledge – under what circumstances is bodycam footage like this released to the public? Who decides what footage to release? The incident occurred a year ago and was just posted to the Youtube video a few days ago. Is the woman still a danger to the public? Was there significant media interest in the case? Was a freedom of information act request filed? Regardless of her behavior, we now have long video of an easily identified woman in her worst moment on the internet. I know it is a risk for anyone misbehaving in public, but not sure what public interest is served in the government releasing this video
Looks like Aaron after his transition.
Looks like yiur keeping your right hand busy as usual thinking of me.
At least his hand isn’t sh#t covered like yours.
And it sounds like you are stalking Chi, commenting on his post.
Maybe he was talking about Aaron Judge as he’s an Ohtani fan. But you wouldn’t know who those people are. You probably watch the WNBA like all the other fairies, bone smugglers and pole smokers.
Freaks like you always root for the other freaks.
Oh look, it’s the other guy who I seem to give his right hand a workout! Who knew I was the homokink fantasy they both can’t seem to get enough of.
Apparently, brickbats do travel in pairs.
You are definitely here for our amusement. You make it so easy, what you fail to understand is we are the voices saying what your coworkers think and can’t say publicly about you.
Like it or not, most Americans still see you people as freaks to be laughed at. All the “progress” you think you made changes nothing in most minds.
Now go wave your freak flags and run your drag shows for kids, it only helps turn public opinion against you a$$ clowns.
STFU Aaron
@Chi
Make me, you human equivalent of an ingrown toe nail on a baboon.
@Dave
No seriously how many boxes of tissue paper do you go through per day giving that right hand of yours a work out?
I’d almost pity your closeted self-loathing homosexuality if you weren’t such a vile piece if dribble p*ss about it.
I would imagine the deplaning of all PAX will become the standard procedure when removing a PAX that refuses to cooperate. It’s safer in the long run.
Also, I’ve seen on YouTube, that once a PAX is removed from the jet, the airline will invalidate their ticket. Therefore, the PAX in question is considered trespassing at the airport and taken to the taxi stand or ride share. If they resume to leave, then charged accordingly.
Some type of standard procedure or practice needs to be adopted to protect other passengers, the police, the airport, and the airlines.
What pathetic policing! So, optics on social media are more important than delaying all the pax and doing their job efficiently? Good grief.