One of the guys who jumped in to duct-tape an unruly airline passenger was identified as a New Jersey gun range owner - who gave the nutbag a blunt wakeup call during the racist and homophobic debacle. Richard O’Lenick, 53 was traveling aboard American Airlines Flight 618 from Dallas to Newark on Thursday night when Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, went on his violent meltdown.
“I don’t love to fly, and he just looks at me and goes, ‘We’re all going to die. This plane is going to crash,'” O’Lenick told The Daily Voice. “And I said, ‘You’re going to meet a couple of new friends when we land.’” O’Lenick was traveling with one of his employees, Juan Meija, a retired cop, as they headed back from a gun expo in Reno, Nevada.
During the flight, Lundeen allegedly began flinging racist and homophobic slurs at a black flight attendant, with the man accused of then attacking other passengers during the meltdown. Once Lundeen turned violent, Meija and O’Lenick rushed in to protect the other passengers and hold the suspect down as flight attendants ran to grab tape and zip ties to hold him down.
The gun range owner said Lundeen was fighting them through the entire ordeal, even going as far as biting Mejia, which led them to tape his head to the seat.
The best part of all this - aside from the jackass getting arrested when they landed? As soon as his bosses heard about all this, they fired the fucker. Talk about FAFO, huh?
