On Friday, a photo of an unruly Icelandair passenger who had to be restrained with duct tape and plastic ties on a flight from Reykjavik to JFK spread across the internet faster than a kitten attack. The Post reached out to the family of 46-year-old duty free liquor enthusiast Gudmundur Karl Arthorsson for comment about his bizarre behavior. "Gudmundur likes to drink, but his behavior has the family scratching their heads," one relative told them. "He isn't a violent person. This was not normal behavior for him. I hope he is OK."
Arthorsson had reportedly downed an entire bottle of hard liquor, as well as a variety of mini bottles, before he became verbally and physically abusive. “He tried to grope and strangle fellow passengers and they said absolutely not,” said Manhattan resident Andy Ellwood, who originally posted the photo sent by his friend who was on the flight. Arthorsson tried to “choke the woman next to him” and was “screaming the plane was going to crash,” other passengers had said.
Eventually, passengers and crew members bandied together to hold him down and restrain him with the duct tape and plastic ties. He wasn't very happy with the situation, according to Reddit user Mezane, who was on the flight: "This is in fact true as the man moaned the whole time." After the plane landed, he was transported to Jamaica Hospital where he was treated for alcohol poisoning.
Arthorsson, who works as a civil engineer in Trinidad and Tobago, had been visiting family in Reykjavik over the holidays before his outburst. But he wasn't prosecuted for the incident, and is now on his way back to Jamaica. So we now bid adieu to Arthorsson: you proved once and for all that duct tape can really solve any problem.
