Sit Back, Relax, But For Crying Out Loud Keep Your Clothes On!

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In an era when traveling by air has become less and less comfortable physically, and sometimes financially, passengers might take it upon themselves to do whatever they can to make themselves feel at home while on board. Maybe that was what was going through the mind of a US Airways passenger who opted to strip down to his birthday suit during a flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles last night. His actions "caused a diversion in more than one way," explains abc7.com, who were sent photos of the naked air traveler by a fellow passenger. Rather than fly all the way to L.A., however, "the flight had to be diverted to Albuquerque," when the 50-year-old stripped-down passenger "was restrained by two off-duty law enforcement officers, who happened to be onboard," then "was taken into custody by airport police, who called the FBI." For the passenger, whose name has not been released, his trip ended in New Mexico, while the flight he'd been on resumed its course and landed in Los Angeles.

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WTF?

Maybe he was on his way to San Onofre, and they just caught him early?

And btw: the FBI? really!?

Unless there's some unreported 'behind the scenes sinister', sounds more like a situation for a psych eval. In the old days, people would have gone: "Aww, Crazy guy..."

*NOT*:

"Aha, his nudity must of course be intrinsically woven into some ingenious grand masterplan due to his hatred of liberty."

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