Dave the Snail................
At the end of the day I think this incident will serve as a message to most westerners to think long and hard about the way they act in and around the Middle East.
Sorry, but the 'problem' isn't confined to the Middle East I'm afraid.
See some PPRuNe posts on the air rage 'phenomenon' that were posted in 2001 at:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1904
The classic outcome (result?) of the problem has to be infamous case of Gerald Finneran who took a crap on the drink cart in first class, then proceeded to clean himself-up (literally) with serviettes in front of the amazed onlookers. Finneran got 'rewarded' for his rather bizarre behaviour with a US$30K fine for his little 'indiscretion' by the way.
Fine, first class with all its supposed trimmings are probably an absolute nightmare for FAs who have to work in that environment with people who think it's their right to behave exactly as they want, when they want, and how they want (but wouldn't ever dream of acting so in their own homes in front of their families), but the simple answer really is to limit the amount of booze that these clowns seem to think they need during the flight.........and if they don't like the conditions applied by any airline in this respect, then stiff sh1t.............let 'em vote with their feet and choose another that's silly enought to let it happen!
