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Actor on NWA plane strikes a flight attendant and hits an officer
After the issue with the wife of Joel Osteen, here comes another anger management case from the pressurized cabin.A veteran character actor, E.D. Nixon Jr., was arrested for allegedly assaulting a flight attendant and a police officer at Memphis International Airport on Tuesday.
The 80-year-old actor, the son of a leading organizer in the Montgomery bus boycotts, is accused of striking a flight attendant on a Northwest Airlines plane and then hitting an officer.
Nixon was taken to the local hospital for treatment of high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar before being transported to jail in Memphis.
(He is being held on $1,000 bond, in case anyone is interested in bailing him out.)
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Steven Ungles Aug 9th 2008 1:14AM
I've heard no good excuse for this old buzzard assaulting a stewardess, if in fact, he did. If so, he needs to pay the consequences. So often today, people are not held responsible for their actions. It's the pervasive liberal attitude, that is getting worse and worse, unless and until people get fed up with it, it will continue to get worse. Two things in very short supply these days, common sense and responsiblity for ones own actions.
celticwolfsrage Aug 10th 2008 6:35PM
Actually, high blood sugar can make you insane, literally. It depends on how long your sugar is high. The longer it's high, the more chance dementia has to set in. If this guy's had diabetes for most of his life...which he probably has...then there is a good chance his sugar was through the roof at the time.
As for him leaving peacefully...if he knocked the lady down on accident, why should he leave at all? Accidents happen. And the person who said that people are treated like a common criminal when they fly is right. It's getting worse because the power is going to some of their heads. SOME attendants work their butts off...some just throw their weight around. I wasn't there so I don't know if this guy deserved what he got, but considering the weekly reports of passenger's fits of rage...I'd have to opt that the attendant in this case wasn't totally right in how she behaved either.
Angryman1 Aug 12th 2008 12:08AM
OMG!! Isn't that Uncle Ben? LMBAO
Yes, I'm Black and he still looks like Uncle Ben to me!! LOL
Robert Campbell Aug 14th 2008 12:52PM
Just a few questions. Why isn't this a workers compensation case? Surely staff in first class encounter such alleged conditions often.
Also, where are witnesses from other first class passengers? Plaintiff's supporting witnesses appear to be only other staff, and also the only ones who would have been able to foresee where a given passenger would be sitting.
These may be jurisdictional exceptions allowing the plaintiff to bring the case in this way, but if there are they should be explained to the public by the media.
Here's why:
It is hard to believe that such allegations against Mrs. Osteen would be true, but if they were, it is hard to explain why other airline personnel have not personally sued passengers? If they have been allowed to, when? Why? How? Please elaborate.
Filing civil suits against passengers is a very bad precedent for the airlines and their staff to set and makes the skies even less friendly for any of us.