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What's up with the naked unruly fliers? 
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That's a question many might be asking today after an airline passenger caused a ruckus, stripped naked and forced his flight to divert to a different airport. That's the second time in less than two months that such an incident has occurred. In the latest incident, The Oakland Tribune writes Southwest "Flight 947 bound for St. Louis with a stop in Las Vegas, had to return to Oakland International Airport at 8:15 a.m. (PT) Thursday morning after a man exposed himself to a woman seated next to him, police said. The man reportedly then began yelling, hit the woman and a couple of other passengers, and eventually took off all his clothes."

The incident apparently began about a half hour into the flight, when the man exposed himself to a female passenger. "When he exposed himself, the woman next to him did what she should do, which was to scream," Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office tells the Tribune. "Her scream apparently upset him, and he ended up punching her."

The Las Vegas Sun says "flight attendants and other passengers (then) wrestled with the 300-pound man, who flailed at flight attendants and broke away, stripped naked and was lying in the plane's aisle as it made a return trip to Oakland to remove the man, Nelson said." Fox 2 TV of St. Louis says the attendants and passengers eventually got him into a seat and covered him "with some kind of plastic sheeting. The pilot turned the plane around and returned to Oakland where the man was taken into custody without incident."

The Tribune adds fliers tried to calm him while he was seated. But "then he stands up again, and he's totally naked. Then he sat down again and threw up," passenger Jim Scanlon says to the Tribune. The incident delayed the flight by about 2 hours and 45 minutes, according to the Sun. 

Of course, it was just about two months ago when a man stripped naked on a June 30 US Airways flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles. He also had to be subdued by cabin crew and passengers, and was taken into custody when the plane ultimately diverted to Albuquerque -- though that diversion apparently was for an unrelated medical emergency. 

Travel blog Gadling.com offers this take: "As more and more of these crazy people start popping up, it would appear our flights are more at risk from the mentally insane, than terrorists. It's a shame the TSA can't perform a simple sanity check before letting people board their flight."
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