A man destroyed a car with a broomstick at the Salt Lake City airport on Wednesday. He was arrested, but not before getting tased by police.
Joshua Tirigue Smith, 28, was arrested on suspicion of property damage/destruction, a second-degree felony; assault on a peace officer, a class A misdemeanor; and interfering with a peace officer, a class B misdemeanor.
The man was rampaging at the airport’s car rental area, in the same complex as passenger parking. He “grabbed a broomstick and broke the mirror off a vehicle, causing $8,000 in damages.” When officers confronted him he said “they were going to have to shoot him to get him to stop.”
- He began walking towards the terminal while brandishing the broom
- Police said they would tase him if he didn’t halt
- Officers say he assaulted one of the officers.
- And he got tased.
People do lose it completely in airport parking lots! A passenger with smelly feet once drove another so nuts that he got stabbed on arrival in the parking lot. And the Salt Lake City airport in particular seems to bring it out in people,
- After the worst vacation ever, a husband purposely ran over his wife in the Salt Lake City airport parking lot when they landed.
- A wild man attacked police officers at Salt lake City airport before surrendering
However the most extreme parking lot meltdown was in Denver, where a United Airlines pilot was arrested in a Denver Airport employee parking lot after a “bizarre ax attack” against the lot’s exit gate. He got tired of waiting for the arm to go up. So he took an axe out of his trunk (!) and swung at the gate more than 24 times. An employee followed the pilot and the two got into a fight.
(HT: Joe R)
@Tim Dunn will be pleased to note that I recently flew Delta to SLC, however, I was not the guy in this post. Instead, I enjoyed the beautiful new terminal there with its sprawling SkyClub.
@George Romey should be assured that the jabroni in the post was not set free, rather he was arrested and charged… as one should when they act like a criminal lunatic.
This was bound to happen: the guy probably got dinged by Hertz’s AI scam: $960 for two smudges that were there when he rented the car. Never thought of resorting to a broom handle to exercise frustration but I guess it’s a thin now.
Oh, and $8000 for a mirror? Yeah, definitely Hertz.
@AngryFlier – You beat me to it!