Why am I NOT surprized...?

Well Sir, havin wurked and drank with a ton of Irish cops over the years, especially on St. Paddy's Day, and have'n married an Irish lass from an Irish family, I guess this headline just sorta says; Ho Hum...so whats new?

Hey Chief!! Y'all got any relatives stuck in Cuba???

"Planeload of drunk Irish passengers creates havoc on Cuba bound flight!!

by Scott Carmichael Jan 4th 2009 @ 1:00PM

In what can only be described as Déjà vu, 40 Irish passengers bound for Cuba created a riot on their Thomas Cook flight.

The group filled up on booze, harassing and punching fellow passengers, and one of them even went so far as to attempt opening the emergency exit mid-flight.

One terrified passenger ended up sitting with the flight attendants in the galley for 5 hours just to get away from the ruckus.

According to the (sketchy) report, the hooligans continued their drunken rioting at their resort, and even on the return flight. 17 of them were actually barred from boarding the flight back home to London Gatwick, but the article does not mention what their fate was, so for all we know, they are still stuck in Cuba.

After reading the story, and the reports from passengers on the flight, I'd say the group was lucky they were not on a US flight carrying federal air marshals. If a drunk fool started smoking and punching fellow passengers on a commercial flight in this country, I'd hate to think what would happen to them, but I'm fairly sure it would not be the weak "investigating events with a view to a possible complaint to police" reported in the source article."