A chatty jerk who cares not for your safety and refused to stop using his phone during a Sydney to Gold Coast flight in June of last year has pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching the Civil Aviation Act and been fined a total of $700 after The Lamest Excuse Ever failed to hold up in court.
Grant Elton King, a building site manager (and that guy), repeatedly ignored instructions given by flight staff and was later arrested by the Australian Federal Police upon landing in the Gold Coast.
His lawyer, a proponent of the overly optimistic Lionel Hutz school of legal defence, said King, who had just purchased a new smartphone, had been fielding urgent calls from work and then couldn’t work out how to turn his new phone off.
The magistrate was having none of it, calling it a massive pile of bullshit “rubbish excuse”.
“It’s a well-known safety practice to switch off your phone and put on your seatbelt when you board a plane,” he said. “Your behaviour on this occasion was one of defiance that you thought you would do what you liked despite what the officials of the airline asked you to do and to hell with other passengers and the safety of the aircraft.”
Ugh. People are the worst sometimes.
Via The Australian
