Summary: A man on a United Airlines flight attacked a sleeping passenger, punching him repeatedly until his face was bruised and bloody. The suspect, Everett Chad Nelson, claimed the victim had attacked him earlier, but a witness stated Nelson’s attack lasted about a minute and the victim did not fight back. The FAA is investigating the incident, which is one of over 1,700 unruly passenger incidents reported this year.
A day or so after I first read about this, I saw The Independent’s coverage of the same story. They dug into the assailant’s background and he turns out to be the leader of an Ayahuasca (plant-based shamanic psychedelic) ‘church’ in Florida.
They also gave further confirmation that the attack appeared to be completely unprovoked, and that there was no known relationship between the attacker and victim, nor did they even seem to know each other.
Also the victim appears to be a person who is deaf and does not speak, if I remember the article correctly.
Sounds like the attacker was tripping balls and went full-ass crazy.
Everett Chad Nelson?
As in, Everett like Everett True, the guy from those early 1900’s comics who always beats people up?
Chad, like Chad as in… an “alpha” or otherwise hyper-masculine male?
Nelson, as in the bully from the Simpsons?
Nominative determinism strikes again. (Maybe I’m in that community and just didn’t look idk)
He fought back by blocking the fists with his face, who is the bigger chad?
The most surprising thing is it wasn’t United Airlines itself beating up the passenger.
They’re testing their new program where the outsource the beatings for liability reasons.
People used to get in serious Federal trouble when doing stoopid shit on airplanes… Not so much anymore…
The attack lasted a minute and the victim didn’t fight back?!
You hit me once and it is on. (That’s if we are on the ground)
On an air plane you hit me once and I call a flight attendant and have your ass arrested. On an airplane you hit me twice and it’s on. I have a legal right to defend myself. (And yes I know you can’t be arrested by a flight attendant, but the flight attendant can certainly call someone who can arrest you).
Flight crew can’t arrest you, but they can restrain you until the plane lands and someone else can.
Also, they probably weren’t fighting back because they were shielding themselves. I don’t know if you’ve even been in a fight, but it’s pretty hard to fight back when you’re sitting down and caught sleeping.
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Yeah and in that enclosed space, it’s not like you can take a step back to assume a defensive posture from which you can actually engage in combat. If you’re standing in the aisle you can at least get some arm movement. Sitting turn you can probably barely get a soft jab in.
