Naomi Campbell is one passenger I hope to never run across. But if I do, and she starts screaming obscenities and trying to kick me, like she did the police on a British Airways flight, I’ll be ready…ready to do what, I don’t know, but I’m ready. Perhaps I’ll actually kick back – Dwight Schrute style

Naomi Campbell gets 200 hours for ‘air rage’

By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago
LONDON – Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an “air rage” incident at Heathrow Airport. She was also ordered to pay 200 pounds ($400) to each of the police officers she attacked and 150 pounds ($300) to Miles Sutherland, the captain of the British Airways plane she disrupted, in addition to a 2,300 pound ($4,600) fine. She could have received six months’ jail time and a heavy fine for the six offenses stemming from a violent spat in April with British Airways cabin crew and police who removed her from a flight in handcuffs while waiting on the tarmac at Heathrow. Prosecutors said Campbell used foul language, kicked and spat at police, accused airline personnel of racism and threatened to sue them after she was told that one of her bags had not been placed on the flight to Los Angeles in April. Campbell was traveling in first class and became abusive to the captain after he left the cockpit to personally explain to her why her bag — and those of many other travelers — had not been placed on the flight. Prosecutors said she shouted a number of obscenities and tried to kick the police who were summoned to remove her after she “ordered” Sutherland to delay takeoff and look for her missing piece of luggage. At one point, the black model accused the airline staff of being racist and said they would not have removed her from the flight if she was white. She told a white policewoman that the only reason she was being arrested was because she was “black and famous” and threatened to sue…

Naomi, try again, try “black and famous and CRAZY!” Or how about just CRAZY without the black and famous, because, trust me, no one cares that you’re black and famous (your words, not mine) when you’re down right crazy. Now put that cell phone away! Girl, how many times do we have to tell you that all electronic devices should have already been turned off and put away for takeoff.