Here’s one flight attendant you don’t want to screw with:
A San Francisco man, accused of forcing a flight to divert because he was high on medical marijuana, picked the wrong flight attendant to freak out on.
51-year-old Lorin Gorman of Chula Vista is a fourth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Those skills may have averted a serious situation in the air.
US-Air flight 1447 was on its way from Philadelphia to San Francisco, but ended up in Pittsburgh.
“He was looking back at me, waving hi,” Gorman said.
Sitting in seat 17-C was Kinman Chan, 30, on his way home.
“He’s banging around, screaming in the back bathroom, he’s opened all the compartments,” Gorman said.
According to a criminal complaint, Chan walked out of the bathroom with his pants down.
“I said, ‘you need to sit down now’,” Gorman said.
He did not sit.
He may now wish he had.
All you need to know is it ends in a choke hold.
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“A San Francisco man, accused of forcing a flight to divert because he was high on medical marijuana, picked the wrong flight attendant to freak out on.”
I seriously doubt marijuana is the cause of his behavior. The guy sounds deranged, not high on pot.
Could Kinman 긴만 be an (unusual) Korean name? That would add another layer of hilarity.
Medical marijuana, eh? Hard to believe since pot normally makes people dopey not aggressive. Maybe it was laced with something.
What the heck is ‘Lebanese Taekwon-do’?
#4,
TKD with hummus.
TKD basically doesn’t teach chokes, it’s more than 70% based on kicking. The flight attendant probably had training on self-defense. Maybe, in US, the TKD professors teach that (non-koreans). In Korea, you only get the kicking part of it.
TKD is great for watching in competitions and mainly demonstrations (besides the great workout). But it’s not that effective on self-defense (where self-defense per se also became not that much effective after fire weapons started being used…and don’t even Krav-Maga me: when facing a gun, best thing is to avoid any stupid moves).
Maximus the ineffectiveness of TKD in fights is a long-standing diatribe, i don’t think it’s the case but that’s another story
This story reminds me of an episode that happened in Rome last summer: some local junkie attacked a group of Korean tourists in order to rob them. Apparently the scumbag thought they were JAPANESE, notoriously a mild and easily victimised lot. The poor bastard didn’t know in the group there was a 40 something TKD teacher who shred him to pieces. When the cops arrived apparently the druggie told them he was happy to get arrested cos in his own words:” I was getting butchered by that maniac”.
An ajoshi beating up a guido chav…wish i witnessed that
#6: TKD does teach choke holds, traditionally at least, as well as joint manipulation and open hand strikes to soft vitals. The latter taught at black belt (it was to signify basics such as kicking and punching were mastered). It was part of army training back in the day as well, not sure about current times
#6,
The Taekwondo thought in North America is mixed with Hapikido.
#8,
Traditionally? Well…The word Taekwondo didn’t even exist until the late 1950′s when some of the dominant schools of Tang Soo Do unified to form the Korea Taekwondo Association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Do_Kwan
I was going to ask that…I thought that TKD did not teach chokes either.
Freaking out on pot – lol
Yeah, I agree… it’s probably mixed in with Hapikido, which does teach holds, joint locks, etc. My uncle’s dojang taught TKD mixed with Yudo (Judo).
I wrote “thought” instead of “taught”. Yup, I’m the king of typos…
No. Never — it’s Chinese. And the guy has a Chinese surname — “Chan.”
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