How could opening your own can of pop on an air plane be used as a weapon?

An unopened can could be used as a weight to hit someone. Imagine being hit across the face with the end of a can, it would hurt. Or somebody slams it into he back of your head. Ouch!

Throwing a full can will hurt if it hits a face or an arm.

Because injuries are far more common in places where policies were born of paranoia.

I bought my own bottle of beer pre-flight last time I went international. It would have been far more dangerous than a can of soda.

Ive never had an attendent refuse me my soda can though. Sounds crazy.

No, she refused to give the passenger an un opened one. Apparently the passenger was paranoid about other people’s germs or something, if someone else opened her can!

There are weapons all over an airplane. A soda can is harmless by comparison. Maybe just an asshole attendent? Or is this a real policy?!

The article states that the man sitting next to her was given an unopened can of beer so that and the attendant’s remark when questioned are pretty discriminatory if the article is true.

As a weapon? I have no idea.

Having flown a fair amount, it has always been the norm for the flight attendants to open any canned beverages before serving it, no matter what airline. If I were to make an assumption, the practice or policy may have come from an attempt to prevent a customer from opening a carbonated beverage can and having it spray all over. The attendant takes the risk.

I read this as an unopened can of poop…

I have no idea why a can of POP would be a weapon. I guess someone could shake it up and spray it at people. Drunken people on planes could have done that in the past. Perhaps it became a rule after such bad behaviour.

I think the real problem is that the flight attendant was blindly following a silly rule…

Here is another link to an article on the subject.

There are some minor discrepancies between the two articles on what was said. Maybe it is the fault of the reporters. It could be due to the chaplain’s skewed recall from being in the midst of an emotional situation. Who knows.

Hindsight is 20/20. The flight attendant missed an opportunity to handle the situation better. The passenger should have addressed it with the airlines privately. Going public with a story like this seems to do more harm than good. And the guy across the aisle from Ms. Ahmed should kept his mouth shut.

As a side note, I do respect Ms. Ahmed for the reason she was travelling. According to the article linked above, she was traveling Friday from Chicago to Washington for a conference promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youths. That’s worthy of recognition.