Ari Cohn: I truly don't know how one can reach "pissing in the aisle of an aircraft" drunk before "pass out and maybe die of alcohol poisoning" drunk. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

I truly don't know how one can reach "pissing in the aisle of an aircraft" drunk before "pass out and maybe die of alcohol poisoning" drunk. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Flight diverted after man 'exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the aircraft,' prosecutors saywww.usatoday.com Officials said the man urinated in the plane aisle on the flight from Chicago to New Hampshire, forcing an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York.

See what you’re missing out on not practicing criminal defense.

I was going to say--start a DWI defense practice and embark on a voyage of discovery

My first year of college, a guy who lived in my dorm, on the same floor, came back to the dorm drunk and couldn't find his room. One door was standing open, so he went in, urinated on the floor, and then passed out on the bed. It was the RAs room. It was a "drug and alcohol free" floor.

That's the Chicago way.

This is not Malört's fault.

Every weird Chicago aviation story is because aviation gods cursed Chicago after Daley bulldozed Meigs illegally in the middle of the night.

My absolute favorite Chicago aviation story is from when Brad Moss and I were traveling back to DC by way of Chicago on different airlines and I switched planes to get on his United flight, and once we boarded we promptly ran into another plane. www.chicagotribune.com/2005/08/09/2...

2 United planes touch at O’Hare, cause long delaywww.chicagotribune.com A wingtip-to-wingtip brush between two United Airlines planes waiting to take off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Monday frayed the nerves and patience of many of the 223 passeng…

I'm quoted in that story mostly because while everyone was looking out the window trying to figure out what had happened, I was powering on my phone and looking up the number for the Tribune.

I remember this!

Brad totally blamed me for it too. Which given the probability distortion field that follows me around wasn't a total leap.

Serves you right for trying to leave Chicago

As one does, of course.

It's a matter of heart. You REALLY have to want it.

I suspect this is his underlying personality, not a long trip to get there alcohol or not

I think you pretty much have to be the kind of person who publicly pees on inappropriate surfaces while completely sober, like Lyndon Johnson or that Rupert Murdoch-y character from Sherlock.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

I wonder which would be more helpful for the airlines: passengers who've had a few and fall asleep; or a zero blood alcohol content rule for passengers as well as pilots.

Hypoxia. It's why they're extra careful about letting drunk people board. Cabin is at like 6k feet. It doesn't mix well with Histotoxic effects of alcohol.

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