Seems like they are a little overboard with the arrests. But on the bright side, everybody got a free night in Bermuda.

Oh no, they have to stay in Bermuda while this is investigated.  Those poor, poor miscreants.  They should have put them on a plane to Detroit.

Charge them for all the delay costs to the airline and passengers.

Satanic_Hamster: Oh no, they have to stay in Bermuda while this is investigated.  Those poor, poor miscreants.  They should have put them on a plane to Detroit.

We're full.

Oh, smokers. Doing smoker things.

JohnAnnArbor: Charge them for all the delay costs to the airline and passengers.

Passengers do not get compensated for delays.

The airline, on the other hand, will bill these fools 5 figures.

HMS_Blinkin: Bad idea. The Detroit airport is actually super nice. Send 'em to Phoenix, THAT is one shiatty airport right there.

Oh, I know.  Been there a few times.  Don't let them stay in the air point, obviously.

OK someone in the know explain something to me in regards to all of these diverted airline stories...

Smoker lights up? Divert and land!
Kid throws a tantrum? Divert!
Woman locks herself in the potty? Divert!
Man argues with flight attendant? you better believe that is a divert!
Man gets drunk? Divert!

You get it.

I mean, come on! The idiocy level is approaching the No Tolerance in Schools policy where little Jenny gets expelled for a Tylenol or little Johnny gets suspended for drawing a picture of a gun.

Are they that terrified that a "scene" is some prelude to a terrorist hijacking or what?

This is like an episode of the Ottawa-based cartoon, Kevin Spencer. Kevin Spencer is a loveable "chain-smoking, alcoholic, teenage sociopath" according to his theme song and he, his family and friends, make the guys from the Nova Scotia trailer park which is the setting for the popular comedy Trailer Park Boys look like Baptist Sunday School teachers (the non-pedophile kind) at prayer.

I can just imagine the scene as it went down.

Although Canada has followed the path of political correctness and health mania laid down by the US, there are yahoos in the hills of the Maritimes, ,and elsewhere, who won't surrender their cancer sticks until the head nurse tricks them into letting her reach into their oxygen tent to pull their last ciggie out of the device installed in their neck like Whozit from South Park.

Yup, that's a classic. They'll be retelling the story of that flight at Canadian Legion Halls from Cape Breton, NS, to Tatamagouche, QC.

If you want to check out Keven Spencer online, you may need to know Russian or Portuguese. It's a CBC production and I haven't found it on DVD yet, while the online episodes tend to be non-English because somewhere in the world, Canadian white trash have found soul-mates or at least an audience who knows the type well enough to laugh at them as well as with them.

Beavis & Butthead combined and raised to a power scarcely scratches the surface of Kevin Spencer. You'll be sad and laughing hysterically at the same time if you've got first-hand experience of these people. They are tragic-comedy at its lowest common denominator.

here to help: Um... I'm no geogramatician but how much longer would it have taken them to just keep flying to to the Dominican? 45 minutes? An hour? If they weren't being violent just keep going and arrest them there.

Oh common sense... how I miss thee.

That was my point, above. The slightest uproar or incident these days and they flip the plane around and fly home dramatically as if a nuclear bomb was on board. WTF? What happened to logic, reason, and common sense?

Last Man on Earth: Before this turns into the inevitable anti-smoking vs. anti-anti-smoking flame war, I'll just say this:  I don't give a rat's ass if you want to smoke or not.  It's your body, it's your business.  However, if you're contained in a goddamn airtight sardine tin with a crapload of other people for several hours, PUT IT OUT!  Bars, restaurants, street corners, whatever.  There's actual air circulation in those cases, so they're debates for another time.  These guys were just being assholes.

If I have to deal with your kids then you can deal with my cigarette.

umad: Last Man on Earth: Before this turns into the inevitable anti-smoking vs. anti-anti-smoking flame war, I'll just say this:  I don't give a rat's ass if you want to smoke or not.  It's your body, it's your business.  However, if you're contained in a goddamn airtight sardine tin with a crapload of other people for several hours, PUT IT OUT!  Bars, restaurants, street corners, whatever.  There's actual air circulation in those cases, so they're debates for another time.  These guys were just being assholes.

If I have to deal with your kids then you can deal with my cigarette.

Seriously... No smoking on street corners? Air circulation ... How does it work? Otherwise, I get it.

FunkOut:

Samsquatches?

megarian: FunkOut:

Samsquatches?

You mean Randy?