A man in his red underwear exercised at a JetBlue gate in Boston, before removing his underwear – mooning passengers and standing arms wide wide and muttering something while standing completely naked – and being dragged off by officers.
Fortunately, the most risqué bits are covered up:
The officers who take him down are wearing the Massachusetts State Police Troop F uniform (campaign hats, gray/blue). JetBlue branding and furniture make this clear it’s Boston’s terminal C. The clip doesn’t appear to have a time stamp. There’s no departure montor in the video that I can make out a flight from.
This is hardly the first naked man at Boston’s Logan airport. A decade ago a an unclothed man fell through the ceiling of a women’s restroom there, and was charged with… attempted murder.
A naked man walked up to a TSA checkpoint in Detroit and managed to get screened. It’s activity that’s common enough there’s been a judicial determination that getting naked at TSA is not protected by the first amendment.
The undisputed winner, of course, is Florida where a nearly-naked woman stormed a TSA checkpoint and got tased on the buttocks. (In Miami naked passengers are enough of a thing that a startup airline Naked-air even tried Miami – Cancun service<.)
Meanwhile, a woman walked naked through the Atlanta airport stopping to pose for photos and a naked man was found strolling past the TGI Friday’s at DFW airport.
In this case, I suspect we’re likely to see charges of indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, and “open and gross lewdness” (which is a felony where intentional exposure occurs in a way producing shock or alarm).
There was a time when one paid admission too view these spectacles, now we go to the airport for the free show.
Either the DA will dismiss the charges or a judge will “feel sorry for him” and give him probation. No, No Fly List. No jail time. A couple free meals and nice new orange outfit and he’s back out on the streets to do this all over again, on something far more worst. Rinse and repeat.
VFTW is becoming Reddit’s r/AirRage page.
Okay, so Gary’s done American, Delta, jetBlue… give us some United, c’mon!
March his butt right out and fine him.
Is his name “Tiny”?
We were a more civilized society before cameras on cellphones became a thing.
What a gross and unsanitary lunatic.
Our country was better when we housed and cared for mental patients instead of allowing them to be on the loose.
Kudos to the State Troopers for carrying him away.
It’s really social media doing this. Some of this boils down to people so desperate for social media attention they will go to this length to be “seen.”