The hell?
Did this guy think he was in some taxi and could just “hop off” mid-ride?
A Ryanair flight from London to Alicante had to make an emergency landing in Toulouse after a British passenger, Daniel Ashley-Laws, tried to open the emergency exit while the plane was cruising.
According to reports, the man had downed massive amounts of duty-free booze before boarding, so much that he could barely stand.
Once on board, things got messy.
Ashley-Laws, who also goes by “Dan Rizz” online, was spotted fiddling with the exit, which freaked out everyone around him. The man refused to stay silent, and the cabin crew couldn’t hold him back.
The pilots had “no other option” but to divert the flight, where French cops stormed the aircraft. Soon after that, the tattooed passenger resisted arrest, climbing onto seats, yelling “No, no, no—no f***ing way,” before officers dragged him off by the ear. I mean, passengers actually cheered when he was taken away.
But hours later, still drunk, Ashley-Laws mocked his arrest on social media, posting pics of his mates yanking his ear like the cops did, laughing it off in Benidorm. Meanwhile, French authorities reminded everyone that “endangering an aircraft” carries up to five years in prison.
If you ask me why this happened…
It’s just a haze with some serious loss of aura points infront of everybody, and he couldn’t take it.
I know the guy could barely stand, had been chugging duty-free like water, and then tried fiddling with the door because, well, that’s what a brain soaked in ethanol does, but by the time the police dragged him out by the ear, he knew this was his mistake and tried to do something to cope up like yelling and refusing to stand up. Maybe he was thinking, “I’m untouchable.”
Now, mocking the arrest later on social media is arrogance or his way of retaliating. The root cause was a toxic mix of binge drinking and zero self-control. Still, the guy deleted all his Facebook images and posted this comment under one of his posts,
“Had to take the kids photo off as they are getting contacted by reporters and the trolls that believe the reporters – not one report has been factually correct yet!! I Guess Eating passports and opening emergency doors sells stories better than French apologies, blowing zero on a breathalyzer 2 hours after, and being released without charge and getting on 3 more flights over the next 3 days.”
Maybe the kid’s words, “They didn’t started that, they started that,” hold some truth, but I don’t think you’ll be dragged off mid-flight if it wasn’t your fault. Also, why even be drunk on a commercial flight where everyone just wants you to throw you out because of the smell?
THE WHY: RECKLESSNESS
A man who has no idea what he’s doing under alcohol in a pressurized cabin at 30,000 feet, and you’ve basically got a flying disaster waiting to happen, which is 4 stars on my scale.
