British Bachelor Party Thrown Off Plane For In-Flight Fist Fight
7 years ago

Bachelor parties are the time-honored tradition of giving your boy one last wild ride of freedom before he enters the horrible and regrettable bond of matrimony. I’m not getting married anytime soon, but I’m more than ready to plan my friend’s bachelor parties.

Anybody who’s ever been lucky enough to attend one of these endeavors, and come out alive, has left with at least one story you’ll never tell your wife and kids that you can end up arrested for. And everyone knows every good bachelor party has three things: a good crowd, good entertainment, and lastly, the bachelor party isn’t complete until hands are thrown.

One group of rowdy soon to be groomsmen took that last part to new heights, literally.

From Fox News:

Five British passengers were removed from a Thomas Cook Airlines flight bound for Las Vegas for disruptive behavior that included fighting and lighting a cigarette, according to reports.

The group was flying to Nevada from Manchester, U.K., for a bachelor party when they became “abusive” and started “fighting with each other,” eyewitnesses said, per The New York Post.

Good show, lads! We couldn’t let United Airlines have all the airborne physical assault fun! And what a plot twist that it’s the usually benevolent British throwing hands this time. I thought they’d spend their time flying drinking tea and eating crumpets, not throwing fists.

“They had been fighting with each other and lighting a cigarette,” Krystyna Sczcygiel, who filmed a video of the men, told The Daily Mail. 

Okay come one. Cut them some slack. They were fighting with each other; they weren’t fighting anyone else. Couldn’t everyone else just use their complimentary headphones, watch the in-flight movie, and turn a blind eye at the borderline fight club going on the first class?

An airline spokesperson told the New York Post that they could not confirm whether the group had been drinking, but did say that alcohol was served on the flight, as well as back in Manchester.

No shit Sherlock. Of fucking course they were drinking! I need alcohol to deal with people when I’m on the ground, let alone when I’m 30,000 feet in the air in a flying tube with a bunch of strangers.

The flight was diverted to Winnipeg, Canada so the rambunctious merry band of bros could be escorted off, with the company of local police, of course. That was their punishment. They got banished to Canada and no one ever knows if they made it to Sin City.

I hope all turns out well for this Queen-loving, red-coat wearing rip off version of The Hangover cast. There are still plenty of questions that need to be answered. Did they ever get out of Winnipeg before freezing to death? Did they make it to Vegas? Did their buddy make it back across the pond for his wedding?

These are the questions we need answers to, but I guess we’ll never know.

[via Fox News]

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