Combative naked man prompts Southwest to return flight to Oakland

OAKLAND — An incident on a Southwest Airlines flight where a man became combative and stripped naked left some passengers too shaken to fly.

The flight, bound for St. Louis with a stop in Las Vegas, had to return to Oakland International Airport on Thursday morning after a man exposed himself to a woman seated next to him, according to police. The man reportedly then began yelling, hit the woman and a couple of other passengers and eventually took off all his clothes. When the plane returned to the terminal in Oakland, several Alameda County Sheriff's deputies arrested him, and he was taken to a hospital.

Passenger Jim Scanlon, 52, of San Ramon, who was on a business trip, saw the disturbance unfold. "About 20 minutes into the flight, I heard a ruckus about four rows behind me.

This big guy, about 6-1 and a good 300 pounds, wearing an Oakland A's baseball cap, probably in his mid-20s, had hit a lady in the mouth," Scanlon said. "He was yelling but not making any sense. Then he hit or slapped another woman who was sitting next to her husband, and he hit him on the top of the head.

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The man almost certainly was off his meds or needing some professional help.
I feel for him, he looks really frightened.

had a condition, I don't feel for him at all. He could just be a stupid mean drunk.

Thank goodness he wasn't tased and no-one was seriously hurt.

:)

If his destination was Vegas (the article doesn't say), he could have already been wasted - I've seen more than a few people who started the party early when I've connected through there...

:toast:

but never stripped my shirt off and hit people, guy needs help

If you have to be obnoxious do it at an Athletics game, not on a freaking airplane