Woman Arrested for Smoking on Plane, Yelling About Venezuela for 2 Hours

[Oele]

On a flight from Nicaragua to Miami Sunday, a woman decided to test American Airlines' "no smoking" rule by lighting up on the plane. Even though everyone had seen her (and some of her fellow passengers were taking video), she tried to pin it on the guy sitting next to her. As in-flight annoyances go, smoking in an enclosed cabin is pretty bad—but that's just scratching the surface of what happened in this airborne waking nightmare.

The passenger, later identified as 52-year-old Penn State-Abington sociology professor Karen Bettez Halnan, stood up and began yelling that the United States had declared war on Venezuela, for reasons having something to do with Exxon-Mobil.

Since she'd already been told the police would be meeting the aircraft to take her off the plane, she decided she'd just finish "saying her piece." She reportedly continued for two hours.

Here's just one minute of it, filmed by an unfortunate member of her captive audience:

More at: http://gawker.com/woman-arrested-for-smoking-on-plane-yelling-about-vene-1691776263

and: http://gawker.com/professor-arrested-for-smoking-on-plane-did-it-for-the-1692015396

[MADem]

1. More video.

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[COLGATE4]

2. Does she post here on DU?

I seem to have read some of her thoughts.