Wait … So You Can’t Play With Yourself On Domestic Flights?

Posted by Mike Richard on September 6, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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The Denver Post is reporting:

A 42-year-old Kentucky man faces federal charges after several witnesses aboard a flight from Louisville to Denver International Airport told an FBI agent that they saw him exposed and touching himself, according to an arrest affidavit.

Froula was wearing a polo shirt, khaki shorts, sunglasses and had an iPod strapped to his arm, the affidavit said. But a passenger alerted a flight attendant that his genitals were sticking out of his shorts, the report said.

Two other passengers told police that Froula fondled himself throughout the flight.

“He was smiling and seemed to be enjoying himself,” one of the passengers said in a police report.

So, you’re telling me it’s a crime to whip out your shvance midflight and start fiddling like the plane’s going down? Who knew?

Alan Michael Froula of Fisherville, Ky., was charged Tuesday in federal court with unlawfully and knowingly making a lewd, obscene and indecent act on an aircraft. The incident allegedly took place Saturday on a Frontier Airlines flight.

Seems a bit harsh to me. Besides: is it possible to unknowingly make a lewd, obscene and indecent act on an aircraft? Maybe to be accidentally playing with yourself? I suppose it’s the difference between manslaughter and murder. One’s an accident, while the other bears intent.

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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