Airport ‘92: During a take-off delay, LAPD...
Airport ‘92: During a take-off delay, LAPD Officer Marty Feinmark and the other passengers sat cramped inside the plane for 90 minutes at Kennedy Airport. At one point, a woman had a brief panic attack and alternately screamed, “Let me off!” and “Stay away from me!”
When the American Airlines jet finally did depart for L.A., another woman suffered a possible heart attack and was moved to the first-class section. Then a male passenger began to act bizarrely, crawling down the aisle, ripping out oxygen masks and hiding in the restroom. “He also ripped loose his seat cushion and strapped it to himself like a chest protector,” Feinmark said, “and started shoving the stewardesses so he could get up front.”
That’s when Feinmark intervened, subduing and then calming the man, who was later hospitalized in L.A.
What struck the officer about the latter incident was that “no one left their seat to help me” subdue the unarmed man. “You’d think someone would have sat on the guy or something. Only my fiancee tried to get involved and I told her to go back. I had just given her a $4,000 engagement ring and I wasn’t going to take a chance on her losing that.”
It’s later than you think: A 1950s theme party was recently held at the Claude Pepper Senior Citizens Center in L.A. to celebrate Older Americans Month.
List of the Day: Who’s the newest social commentator on the scene? Why, Hollywood Park.
The racetrack’s billboards around town offer these barbs:
* “It’s just like the lottery, only you might win.”
* “A race even a Democrat can win.”
* “More hair-raising rides than the RTD.”
Spokesman Brock Sheridan says he hasn’t heard any complaints from lottery or RTD officials. “But,” he added, “we have had some Democrats call.”
Why should the Democrats be so sensitive? After all, the experts confidently predict that in the November presidential horse race, the Demos are a sure thing to win, place or show.
Dueling sign: If you come upon a long line of confused truck drivers at
Crenshaw Boulevard and Palos Verdes Drive North in Rolling Hills Estates, Jane Leavy suggests it could be the sign at that corner.
Thicker than water: Harry Shuster of L.A. wrote to remind us that the DWP’s officers include a Waters and a Powers--General Manager Daniel W. Waters and Chief Financial Officer Norman Powers. We also notice that one DWP commissioner is the founder of the environmental group Heal the Bay. And we’re sure that her name--Dorothy Green --is not a reflection on the clarity of the DWP’s tap water.
miscelLAny:
To our list of astronauts who attended high school in the L.A. area--including Walter Cunningham (Venice) and Sally Ride (Westlake School for Girls)--City Councilwoman Joy Picus adds Kathleen Sullivan (Taft High).
