Delta Passengers Subdue Man Making Bomb Threats

On January 8th, a man aboard a Delta airlines flight was subdued by fellow passengers after he made bomb threats and attempted to open the plane's rear emergency exit. After the man was restrained, the plane landed safely at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta and the man, 45-year-old Lawrence Johnson of Kentucky, was arrested by airport police.

The man reportedly threatened passengers that he had a bomb, and that they should not come near him.

This occurred after Johnson shoved a flight attendant to reach the rear emergency exit, according to Chris Llewellyn, one of the passengers who restrained the man. Lewellyn is a guitarist for rapper Asher Roth.

Although aviation experts have said it would have been impossible for the passenger to open any of the plane's doors because of cabin pressure (the physics on that aren't really clear to me, but they're the experts) one still gains some enjoyment from imagining a rapper's crew getting to wreck shop on airplane. It seems like a role-made-in-heaven for Ice-Cube.

One gains even more enjoyment from the story upon learning that Asher Roth is not a stereotypical mainstream rapper, but rather a 23-year-old white guy from the suburbs of Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Seriously. Somewhere, right now, Vanilla Ice is walking around in a house he just lost to the sub-prime crisis saying "Represent."