Rusted Sky

If you'll read through the entire story, you'll notice someting a bit odd. Go ahead, I'll wait while you follow the link and read the whole thing.

wbztv.com - Retired Officer Subdues Unruly Plane Passengers

(WBZ) BOSTON A former police officer is being called a hero after he helped subdue two unruly passengers on a plane over the weekend.

Retired police officer Bob Hayden, who served in Boston and Lawrence for several years, was coming back from Minnesota on a Northwest plane with his wife when the unexpected happened.

Before the flight even took off, Hayden said a man, who appeared aggravated, was walking up and down the aisle of the plane. The flight attendant had to force him into his seat after asking him to do so a few times.

Hayden said after the aircraft finally got in the air, he noticed there was some sort of commotion. The same man had started screaming and fell into the aisle.

Initially, Hayden said he thought the guy was having a heart attack, but he quickly realized the incident might have been staged. According to Hayden, two flight attendants helped the man back into his seat where he continued to yell for the entire flight.

The incident apparently scared some of the plane passengers and even made some people cry, Hayden said.

When the pilot made the announcement the plane was approaching Logan Airport, Hayden said the man who caused the first commotion and a second person began yelling and fell into the aisle. That is when Hayden said he, with the help of a retired U.S. Marine captain, took action.

That's ALMOST the entire article. I did a bit of googling and found this...

Bostonist: Boston Blotter: Schmucks on a Plane

--Bob Hayden - a retired Boston police officer, former Lawrence police chief, and grandpa - had to deal with some schmucks on his plane from Minnesota to Massachusetts on Saturday night. A man started to fake some sort of fit after takeoff. Flight attendants got him back into his seat, where he started yelling. Then another guy - who turned out to be the screamer's brother - joined in with a fit.

Hayden, the flight attendants, and a retired Marine couldn’t take it any more, so Hayden cuffed one of the offenders and kept an eye on them until the landing.

Some passengers were scared, but Hayden's wife wasn't: "Bob's been shot at. He's been stabbed. He's taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody's neck, and that would be the end of it."

This Hayden guy is efficient! Is he interested in rejoining the force?

When it was all over, the screamer went to the hospital to get his mental health checked out, and the other joined police.

Oddly, there's pretty much no other major coverage on this. Now - what have you noticed that's odd about the reporting on this incident?

Look carefully. There's no mention of ethnicity, no mention of the names of the 'brothers'. Now - why wouldn't there be? Mental health privacy issues? Don't see how those would apply, and they weren't minors. Why else would there be no mention?

I'm probably reading more into what isn't there than IS there - but the only reason I can think they'd omit the names is because they're Muslim. I can imagine John Smith and his brother Pete would have gotten their names in - but Mohammed and Abdul? Nope. After all, we might 'misunderstand' and not be 'sensitive'.

J.