Unruly Russian hockey team kicked off flight after world junior win over Canada

[Bragi]

Source: Canadian Press

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. - Russia's gold-medal celebration at the world junior hockey championship went into overtime, preventing the team from flying home Thursday morning.

About 30 members of the Russian contingent were asked to get off a Delta Air Lines flight for being unruly after boarding for takeoff early Thursday morning, an airport spokesman said.

The team was "sleeping it off" at a hotel Thursday afternoon, a person at the front desk of the Days Hotel near the airport said.

A tired-looking Mikhail Zislis, the team's media officer, was getting little rest, though. "I cannot sleep because everybody in Russia is calling me asking me what's going on," Zislis told The Associated Press inside the hotel lobby.



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[MineralMan]

1. That's Breaking News?

Really?

[Bragi]

2. 46 minutes ago seems to meet the definition /nt

[Earth_First]

3. Maybe over at ESPN... n/t

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[Electric Monk]

7. Rowdy group of drunk young men on an airplane. It's news. nt

[MineralMan]

8. Let's see. Rowdy young Russian hockey players.

You're right. Who would ever suspect that young Russian hockey players might be rowdy?

Next LBN story: High School Band trip gets out of hand. Band not to be allowed in hotel again.

[Electric Monk]

11. Um, remember 9/11? The shoe bomber? The underwear bomber? Think airplane security. It's news. nt

[Electric Monk]

13. You realize this was in American air space, right? The tournament was in Buffalo, NY. nt

[Bragi]

10. Knock yourself out /nt

[hedgehog]

12. Don't be fooled by all the Tim Horton outlets, the last time I checked,

Cheektowaga was in the US. You could be excused for thinking it's in Poland, but Canada? No way!

Or were you confused by the name Buffalo Niagara International Airport? Some of the flights cross the border, but the airport itself is firmly in New York.

[DrDan]

6. I think the "news" part is in question - not the "breaking" part

[liberal N proud]

5. Depends

on who is posting it

[Bragi]

9. I thought it was amusing

Not that anyone here needs a chuckle, of course. If the rules weren't so strict, I guess I could have made it DU-newsworthy by changing the headline to something like: "TSA Thugs Halt Young Russians"

[Electric Monk]

14. This news got moved out of LBN, but "man strips at airport" could stay, and got 96 recs?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4678208&mesg_id=4678208

[provis99]

15. drunk Russians are news?

If they were Russian hockey players and they weren't drunk, that would be news.

[Electric Monk]

16. No, but a couple dozen people kicked off an airplane in American airspace is.

Do people not read past the headline anymore?