A Frontier Airlines passenger suffered a freakout at the ticket counter at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), forcing police intervention. It seems to me that this unfortunate situation was handled very well.
Freakout At Frontier Airlines SFO Ticket Counter
Undated video shared by Jay Robert, who goes by A Fly Guy on social media, shows the incident escalating at SFO. The passenger, a man with green hair wearing gray trousers and a red shirt, is captured on video screaming at the check-in staff. The scream is continuous and shrill.
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You can see from the face of one of the check-in agents that she is clearly agitated, while her colleague looks more confused than anything else (and appears to call the police). It seems that the distressed passenger is screaming for the police.
The police do show up and he proceeds to spit on officers’ feet, then yells at to grab him and break his legs.
From this video, it appears the police did a wonderful job of subduing this man in a way that avoided harm to himself or to others.
I’m not posting this to ridicule the man: any person who acts like that in public is extremely troubled and I hope this green-haired dude gets some help…or has already received it.
But I do post it to show what airline check-in agents deal with…and cops too.
It does seem like the Frontier agent got upset, which may have escalated the situation, but I can hardly blame her…you trying being screamed at and remaining totally composed. The police also showed restraint…I don’t think I’d take kindly to being spit upon.
So my point is that I think Frontier and the police handled this situation quite well. Hopefully if we ever find ourselves in a similar situation, we will do likewise.
People have lost their minds. You never ever spit on anyone. Never.
But you do scream like a banshee at an airport check in counter?
@Jim: you may not know me but I mentioned many times here I enter one airport mute and I leave the other one mute. It is a way for me to rest my vocal cords. I seriously only talk if extremely necessary. So no, I do not scream at anyone.
That’s a nice habit, and sounds like it provides a bit of healthy mediation. As far as my comment, the man is clearly unwell and I’m not sure he is analyzing his action to spit any more than he is analyzing his action to scream like a banshee. Neither behavior is what most of us would term respectable or appropriate.
The hair dye is the problem. Its poison.
It looks like Ben Schlappig. Maybe his upgrade didn’t clear?!?
LOL!
Dude seems distressed and unstable.
At least he did this before getting on a plane.
Hope the Police took him to San Francisco General and tested him for whatever drug/s he was high on and then to his cell. Thank goodness the incident happened at check in counter and not inflight.
More interested in the story about the guy who stung in the balls by a scorpion in Vegas.
That isn’t surprising.
Hope it was the dude that hit a $700+ jackpot at LAS!
“One of the agents is clearly agitated.”
Wow, great deduction.
We serve to serve again.
Apparently it got a look in a mirror and frightened itself… The shit police have to put up with ….
Ii no that u can get stress out working all the time checking people in and out on flight when u get stress take a day off in rest these people travel a lot if they dont travel u want get pay dont no body want to be spit on again take day off come back fresh in let fly frontier Airline my favor airline