Rugby Players Urinate On Airplane Floor, Steal Liquor

[matcom]

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They wouldn't be quiet. They wouldn't sit down. They snatched mini-bottles of liquor from the beverage cart, and then they urinated on the floor.

To United Airlines officials - and likely the other passengers on the packed flight from Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon - their behavior was downright barbarian.

In fact, they are Barbarians.

The rowdy passengers, the airline said, were members of the Denver Barbarians Rugby Club, which had just placed seventh of 12 teams in a national tournament in Pittsburgh.

United spokesman Jeff Green said the rugby ruckus erupted on Flight 299 to Denver.

"The flight attendant crew wound up cutting off at least some of the members from the rugby team from liquor sales," Green said.

"And they weren't happy about that," he said. "They became very disruptive."

"Ultimately the flight attendant crew notified the captain and he turned on the seat belt sign," Green said.

That required all passengers to sit down and buckle up, but Green said it didn't work.

"It was ignored," he said.

Then, he said, some team members took liquor from the beverage cart parked in the galley - an estimated $90 worth.

United employees later found mini-bottles of red wine in seats on the plane, taken from the liquor cart, plus a fifth of vodka - an item not sold on board, Green said.

"They had brought their own liquor," he said.

Finally, Green said, a player or players urinated on the galley floor and on the door, walls and floor of a lavatory.

http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4005633,00.html

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Then they killed one of their teammates and ate him.

Rugby players DO have an image to uphold, after all.

[KDLarsen]

2. Had someone like them on a flight once..

I was flying Seoul-Sydney in the middle of the night, when someone came running down the far aisle (it was a B777, ie. 2 aisles), with a rather large group of people chasing him. He then took a trip across the middle seats (who were empty), before a male flight attendant was able to tackle him. Of course, I had to spend the next 4-5 hours listening to him sitting in the rear galley, crying on and on about how sorry he was & if they could please let him go etc. Turned out he had emptied 2 bottles of duty free whiskey & had taken some pills of sorts.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Were they charged with terrorism? n/t

[Richardo]

4. Pointing out the need for an in-flight demo of the exit slide

Adios, assholes!

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. What assholes.