Yeah
FR I totally agree.
But the sad fact is there is no shortage of people who
aren't fully prepared to take responsibility for their own actions.
The point is, an airliner, as evidenced by the severity of the sentence, is not the place to go trying to make a statement on the concept of individual responsibility by allowing the guy to sink piss like it's going out of fashion.
LubedLower happily advocates letting everyone go for it because he's been put out to pasture and doesn't have to deal with it anymore. Onya,
Lubed...
But those of us still in the industry don't necessarily want people making their own decisions about whether or not they're gonna get ****-faced on our airplanes.
As for the hostie who fed him all the piss - what's the bet she feels like an idiot too and has been de-briefed accordingly? Why? Because she did not "serve him alcohol responsibly" as she had been trained to do.
You (the customer) should be just as responsible in a bar or nightclub as you should in an airliner.
Crap. The customer AND the staff need to be a lot more responsible in an airliner than in a bar. Why else did this guy get 12 months in the clink for being an idiot? Do you think he'd the same for threatening to break a window in a pub? Obviously not.
Despite what he says, I don't believe
LubedLower is as stupid as he makes out.... I'm all for
everyone taking responsibility for his or her own actions and paying the appropriate price.
But when one of the trolley-wallies ignores their responsibilities like the above did, most guys I know would have them walking home.
That is every bit as much about taking responsiblility for an action as with the guy who sank the piss and screwed his pooch. They both need an arse-kicking.