Almost everyone knows a story about somebody who was wasted on an airplane. However it is rare that those stories end in a six to twelve month jail sentence and about $18K in fines.

Russell Petrie, 30, boarded an American Airlines flight from Seattle to Miami back in January and yelled “let’s party and have some drinks!” From that statement alone someone should have realized Russell was rocking a healthy buzz but he still managed to order five vodka drinks and two glasses of wine from two different flight attendants. Once he was cutoff by flight attendants Russell reportedly yelled, “you don’t [deleted] decide how much vodka I can drink . . . I’ll meet you off the airplane.” He grabbed one female passenger’s ass and made sexually suggestive remarks to the female flight attendants and passengers. Russell went into the bathroom and began loudly pounding on the walls of the plane. This behavior caused the pilot to become concerned with the safety of the flight and passengers so he made an unscheduled landing in Denver so that Russell could be arrested.

Hold on just a second here. They departed from Seattle and made an unscheduled stop in Denver. I have flown from Seattle to Denver several times and it is only a two hour, maybe two and half hour, flight max. How the fuck did this guy score seven drinks in two hours? I can barely get a single can of Diet Pepsi in two hours but this booze hound got seven drinks? I don’t know if I should be pissed off or impressed.

Either way Russell is now fucked. He is facing six to twelve months in jail along with a $10K in fines from the court. Russell will also be required to reimburse American Airlines for the $7,757 that it cost to make the unscheduled stop in Denver.

Original Story: canada.com