A man got busted while filling his paper coffee cup with beer in Air Canada’s Los Angeles Maple Leaf Lounge. You should have seen the look on his face…
Man Fills To-Go Cofee Cup With Beer In Airport Lounge…Twice
A gray-haired man in dungarees and a plaid checkered shirt (let’s call him Farmer John) approached the buffet in the Air Canada Lounge at LAX, grabbed a paper to-go coffee cup, then used the beer tap to fill his cup with Stella Artois.
But before his cup was even full, the mujer mayor sabia working in the lounge ran over to the guy and said, “No sir. No. You cannot take the alcohol from the lounge!” She said it graciously and in a tone to inform, not to scold.
I loved his reaction, though. He pretended he did now know better and acted very confused, as if everyone just fills their coffee cup with beer on the way out of the lounge.
Rather than dump out it out, he just decided to drink it on the spot, transferring it to a glass cup and then downing it very quickly.
Satisfied, the lounge attendant walked away. But you have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool Farmer John. When she was out of sight, he refilled his cup…with beer…put on the lid, and walked out of the lounge.
Perhaps he thought the rule about not consuming your own alcohol onboard did not apply to him…?
There was another character in the lounge I’ll write about on Monday, plus a diva with a dog on my flight to Seattle. Throw in a flight delay and a great conversation with my seatmate and it was quite an eventful day for only a 2.5-hour flight…
Obligatory: “saurie for partying?”
You could have said ” la empleada rauda y veloz alertó al hombre de las reglas “. Sabia implies applying life experiences to prevent heartaches.
My Spanish stinks. But it was a wise older woman.
But he wasn’t consuming his own alcohol on board, it was Air Canada’s!
In fact, this would be a reasonable defense. The applicable regulation (at least, for the FAA; not sure about CAA) says that alcoholic beverages consumed on board must have been provided by the carrier, and is silent as to whether they have been provided on board or not.
Farmer John sneaked a beer. Looks like this might not have been his first rodeo.
Since diva dog was mentioned in a tease, I’ll go off topic a bit. The Denver Post has an article about ” service ” dog bites passenger & American employee at DEN. ADA quoted in story.
(Oh, god, I’m ‘That Guy’.)
There is no rule prohibiting consuming your own alcoholic beverage on board. If anyone thinks otherwise, please provide a citation.
FAR 121.75(a) prohibits consumption by a passenger of alcohol that is not served by a flight attendant. It is entirely within the rules to BYO and have the FA serve it to you.
Alcoholics are to be pitied. They are addicts.
At the Centurion Lounge in PHL, the to-go cups are now kept behind the front desk. I asked why they didn’t just have them inside by the coffee machine and was told that too many customers were filling them with alcohol to go. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Leaving the Amex centurion club in Miami, I chatted with a lady with a large travel mug saying, “that’s a lot of coffee to drink.” She said with a big smile it wasn’t coffee but rum and coke. Excellent use of her travel mug. In Europe, most places have unattended self-serve bottles of booze in the lounges and no one cares if someone fills up a paper cup. Only in America do the Puritan ninnies worry about someone taking booze out of the club while ironically it is the USA that has the large numbers of misbehaving drunks fighting on planes, not Europe. Go figure.
Dude was pretty anxious to get buggered.
Oh boy, another story about someone with their dog onboard a flight. Can we guess that the dog owner did not think the rules for her dog did not apply? When will DOT and airlines get a backbone and end the nonsense of dogs on a plane unless a true documented service animal, and even then with restrictions?
Wait till Monday. Two more stories. I’m going to write about every incident until carriers are allowed to fully ban all dogs.
I’m going to take friendly little puppies with BS service animals vests on every United flight until Matthew becomes enamored and jumps the shark
Good. As a possible alternative, what about requiring a vet to certify that an animal is a trained service animal and if the animal is not and the vet committed fraud then they (the vet) get fined and permanently lose their license and are subject to lawsuits by any party injured because of their fraud?
We need to make it a criminal offense to bullshit a service animal. If I fake a placard and use it to park in handicap parking, I get a fat fine from the police department. Same needs to apply to obnoxious dog owners who fake service animal needs.
Back in my younger days, when United had first class (before Polaris lounges,) I think they just had a separate section in the United Club for first as the lounge was closed. I made a Jameson with a splash of ginger ale in a coffee cup and took it with me. Finished it before boarding commenced of course.
I feel like I’m in jail the minute I arrive at the airport…
Nothing new. Nothing to see here.