It transpires (through PM) that the miscreant was a student pilot on a x-country.
It just reinforces my comment about his poor standard of training.
I'm not the "fun-police" and I have Łucked up in my time (and will probably do so again!) but there is a right way of doing things and if we all do things the right way, then the skies will be safer and more fun for the majority!
Oh - the gloves that 2112 refers to are gardening gloves, not flying ones!!