"Still need that like button, cause DanTheMan's comment was funny! fapiao, lol."
Danthemans comment wasnt funny at all! It was stupid. Stupid and irresponsible. The guy is clearly deranged. And we all know how it turned out for The Box too...
So there!
Was the government man destroying the counter tied into the Spirit Airline plane that was at the gate but no one was allowed to board because there destination city was heavily fogged in. In that incident a large group of people attempted to get onto the tarmac to protest and i think it took police a while to get order restored and flights to resume. Seems to be a need to know regarding informing customers when there is a problem and attitude is no one needs to know anything.
No, not that one.
It happened on the 19th. The man was to fly on a 11:05 flight from KMG to GuangZhou. He went for a early lunch and missed the boarding call then he was given a seat on the next flight. Again, he managed missing the boarding call, then came his free 'fixing the gate' demo with the police and the guards stood there playing the faithful student role. How dare the plane leave without a future leader of the country, that plane is doomed, I would have thought. :-)))))))
Beyond the term 'dealt with severely'-
Is there any more info on what has happened to the gentleman traveller, since the incident?
The gentleman traveler was suspended and may face criminal charges.
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I would also be grumpy if I had just eaten breakfast at the Kunming airport. Of course, if I had eaten said Kunming airport breakfast, I'd probably have ended up letting loose a different sort of shitstorm from this gentleman.
On another note, this guy makes me wish that China would reintroduce public stocks of the sort my Puritan forebearers employed. He'd look great stationed outside the arrival doors with his neck and wrists through a wooden yoke. Get the wife in on it, too.
The inaction of the police made me laugh
It is hard for me to fault the airport or security personnel as being the cause of this incident.
In 2007 or 2008, it snowed in Kunming for 2-3 days. I flew in from Beijing for a few days with plansd to go to Lijiang and then to Jinghong. Due to the snow I decided to skip Lijiang and over the phone rerouted my flights directly to Jinghong. At the airport, I turned in my tickets and passport to effect the reticketing. While standing at the counter a couple of bus loads of Chinese arrived on their way to Lijiang.
Initially calm and orderly, outrage quickly overtook common sense and the unlucky travelers began to push, shove, yell and scuffle until passenger was beating on passenger. As a few people were knocked down the kicking and stomping was in full sway.
I was pushed away from the counter and managed to hang onto my bags. One of the young counter ladies appeared at my side with my new ticket, passport and boarding pass. She took me through the combatants to security.
Lest we forget, this in 2009:
@Geezer.
In any kind of place, it is expected that at least one person in the crowd could start to get a bit excited for any kind of reason. So, who is supposed to be there to prevent or stop excessive behaviour? If that person sees that no authority intervenes to stop what he/she can do, he/she will probably keep testing the limits.
The wife got so carried away after she saw her husband smash two computers and attempt to break a glass panel without being stopped that she thought what the hell, i'm a rebel, let me also have my own adrenaline rush. So, she checks that thing on the desk before picking it up, and then checks the other people to see if they'd prevent her from doing the irreparable. And after smashing foam on the carpet, she proudly looks back at them, and is like -that's right. come at me, bro.
The kid seemed to have had a reasonable behaviour.
Imagine if they were a tour group of grown-ups instead of just two.
@ yankee00
There is no need for me to imagine what it would like if a tour group of pissed off adults went berserk. It was two tour groups I got caught in. The melee ensued complete with obvious leaders, different colored hats and participants of both sexes.
The root cause was weather. Flights were cancelled. No human did anything but decide, for safety reasons I assume, to stop flying to airports hit with snow.
As with the recent display of civilized behavior, the anger was fairly instant and completely over the top. With my nearly nonexistent Chinese skills I could only observe the anger and violence. As I was pushed, luckily, away from the counter, it was clear these people were out of control, violent, and sought satisfaction by inflecting pain on someone else.
You are, no doubt, are cool, calm and totally relaxed in the midst of insane behavior but I was experiencing an extreme flight response and lingered only because my passport was not in my possession. With a high level of detachment, distance, and no skin in this game, it is easy to point out the failings of those young guys in uniforms, making minimum salaries, most likely untrained, with no medical for injury, and subject to being summarily fired for annoying members of the ruling elite, as failing to perform. I just wonder what they were supposed to perform. Note, I have no doubt that if the clown smashing and throwing had blond hair and blue eyes, he would have been subdued by the security guys post haste.
This guy missed boarding, not one but, two flights. His head was clearly up his ass. When denied the opportunity to hold up the flight by exhibiting his power and boarding late, he mistakenly launched into his childish tantrum. He wasn't attacking people just some minor stuff and putting on a show. For my money the security guys did the right thing. The more he did, the deeper hole he was digging.
