Thursday, January 13, 2011

Airline Passenger Is Toughest French Citizen Since Napoleon

The French even back down to their own street signs.

The Smoking Gun - In what will only enforce the belief that some French citizens are saddled with an insufferable insouciance, federal air marshals had to subdue an intoxicated man flying to New York from Nice when he repeatedly shoved a female flight attendant who caught him smoking in the plane’s bathroom. After being handcuffed, suspect Franck Lebrun announced, “I’m French, fuck you!” The disruption aboard a January 8 Delta Air Lines flight is detailed in a federal criminal complaint charging Lebrun with interfering with a flight crew member. According to FBI Agent Janet Ambrisco, during the flight Lebrun, 34, purchased a one-liter bottle of Baileys Irish Crème liquor and a mini bottle of liquor. The bottle of Baileys, only one-fourth filled, was found in his carry-on baggage. When Lebrun--screaming, yelling, and smelling of “cigarettes and alcohol”--got into a fighting stance opposite an air marshal (one of three on the transatlantic flight), he was handcuffed and moved to the rear of the airplane. During the trip, Ambrisco noted, Lebrun had been “speaking in a confrontational manner using expletives in English and made other comments in French.”

I call bullshit on this guy being French.  They had me going with the drinking and the smoking, but if there is one thing about the French that I know, its that they roll over quicker than the neighborhood dog at the first sign of potential conflict or physical force.  

The French are pussies. "Oh hey Nazi forces, you want to set up camp down town? Those are some big tanks you have, I guess that would be ok", "The war in Vietnam is getting a bit deadly? Ehh, bring out troops back home, they could use a vacation anyway."  The Frogs haven't stood up in the face of conflict since their midget leader Napoleon was trapsing all over the globe.  I highly doubt this guy finally decided to defend his national heritage just because he wasn't allowed to smoke on a plane.

More likely this was just your average drunk, jackass American, using American ingenuity to deflect negative attention away from America.  Now that's patriotism.