WINE, AIRPLANES AND MUSLIMS JUST DON'T MIX

Don't you wish that it was still just the Irish that were getting drunk and unruly. All you had to worry about then was a big mouth and a black eye.

Maybe this is why Muslims aren't supposed to drink.

"An allegedly drunken, belligerent passenger who authorities say locked himself in a bathroom on a San Francisco-bound plane - prompting the military to scramble fighter jets - was charged Monday in federal court with disrupting the flight and forcing an unscheduled landing.

Muhammad Abu Tahir, 47, of Glen Allen, Va., was arrested Friday after the AirTran Airways flight landed in Colorado Springs. He will appear Wednesday before a federal magistrate in Denver on charges that he assaulted, intimidated and interfered with a flight crew.

Tahir downed five glasses of wine after boarding the flight in Atlanta, authorities said. He became abusive when flight attendants refused to serve him a sixth drink, federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.

Tahir allegedly began yelling and marched into the lavatory. At one point, he took off his shoes and socks and placed them outside the door, all the while accusing crew members of disrespecting him, according to the complaint."
San Francisco Chronicle