Shane McInerney arrested due to bad behavior on flight to NYC

Ignorance of the law is no defence.

Losing self-control is no defence.

Yes the potential punishments are very harsh, but fair warning of consequences is available for those that want to hear it.

In all likelihood he won't be imprisoned. It's of no value to the State or Federal Government to have to pay for his detention. He'll probably be deported, cuffed and under escort, back to Ireland and banned from applying to re-enter the US for many years, or perhaps forever.

That shite does fly (pardon the pun) in the courts over there.If it was here nothing would happen, a good few incidents over the last few years,nobody went to jail.Thats off the top of my head and open to correction though.

I don't think he deserves 20 years in a US prison and that's not going to happen.I think he will see some jail time although he could be lucky and just a fine and deported.

Any career over there is finished and he'll also likely get a ban from the States.

He won't get 20 years, but my guess is he will certainly get some custodial sentence and deportation order once served.

Do tell,sounds interesting....

Was it with an Irish flyer?

There's always one that tries to justify bad behaviour and then tries to shift the blame and down play it by saying others were just drama queens.

No one deserves this type of behaviour while trying to do their job. If you condone people being agressive to staff have a long hard look at yourself.

Once again courtesy of this clown we live up to our stereotype of "fighting, drunken Irish".

At a minimum he has ruined his career there and I'd say he'll be on a no fly list to the states.

I never tried to justify anything.

His behavior was unacceptable. I have no idea what the appropriate punishment is, but he should be punished. (especially once the pilot came out of the cockpit, and he still didn't adjust his behavior)

However, I still think you can (and very often do) have both bad behavior from the individual in question AND drama queens who act like they have ptsd from these types of incidents. There is a huge amount of these types of people in society these days. Soft touches basically, who can't handle any sort of mildly stressful situation and become a nervous wreck when faced with anything unexpected/out of the ordinary.

I was responding to another person's comment. And extrapolating out from there in a wider general context.

Nope, I wouldn't say irrelevant to the topic at hand.

But definitely directed at the post I was responding to.

Sound as a pound! 😀

The ‘pulled down his pants’ bit definitely puts a different spin on things..