December 28, 2006

Can Of Whoop Ass Found To Be Past Shelf Date

There was some instant karma for this hometown belligerent drunk:

A Fort Myers man was arrested Wednesday for punching a U.S. air marshal on a flight from Washington to Fort Myers.

Andrew J. Kowalczyk was ordering Jack Daniels and coke while in first class of the U.S. Airways flight that left from Reagan National Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport, according to a federal complaint.

Kowalczyk “spoke in a loud voice and repeatedly used profanity” with “slurred speech” according to a federal air marshal, one of two on the flight. That’s when Marshal Jeffery Boyer, who was sitting in front of him, “felt a sharp blow to the back of my head that knocked my head forward.”

At first, he thought the hit was unintentional, but his partner, Federal Air Marshal Brian Pierog told them that it was planned.

Pierog told Boyer that Kowalczyk leaned over to him and said, “I don’t know who this guy in front of me thinks he is, but I’m going to whoop his ass,” the complaint states.

Both men then told Kowalczyk they were federal air marshals and arrested him.

You chose unwisely, my friend; that's interfering with a flight crew.
Andy faces up to 20 years for that little love tap, but he provided us with a brief moment's distraction from our cares, and that's all that really matters.

Posted by floridacracker at December 28, 2006 06:27 PM

   



Comments

Hmmm...hometown belligerent drunk. So you´re from Fort Myers?

Posted by: George at December 29, 2006 01:32 PM

Yes, I am. From North Fort Myers, actually. The other side of the river.
I hope you're enjoying the German Weinachten at Ramstein. We loved ours in Wiesbaden.

Posted by: Donnah at December 29, 2006 01:39 PM

Yep, plenty of Glüwein was consumed at Kaiserslautern and Rudesheim. I´m a 1969 grad from FMH. Happy New Year!

Posted by: George at December 30, 2006 03:23 AM

Class of '69? I bet we could name every single eating establishment in town at that time. Biff Burger and Royal Castle on Cleveland, Cabover and Dog 'n Suds in N. Ft Myers, Sims Drugstore and Kerms in Tice. That about covers it, I think.

Posted by: Donnah at December 30, 2006 07:52 AM

Aw...you forgot Lums and the drive in down by the bus station. The Dog n´ Suds and Biff Burger were personal favorites.

Posted by: George at December 30, 2006 02:18 PM

Dog n' Suds was right near my house. I'm from Tropic Isles, about a block from North High.

Lums- my sister in law worked there for a bit in around 1973, but I don't have any childhood memories of it. Maybe because I've never been in there.

I was talking to a fellow who went to school a bit before you, and lived out on Ft. Myers Beach. He and his friends used to like to go eat at the Cabover, which tells you how hard-pressed we were if people'd drive all that way for a sandwich. Although the mini-jukeboxes at the tables did have their charm.

Posted by: Donnah at December 30, 2006 02:38 PM

The Cabover, yep ate there alot when I was with my dad at work. He delivered beer to the grocery stores in south Florida. Keep in touch, you have my email addresses.

Posted by: George at December 31, 2006 05:36 AM