Airplane Smoker Gets 15 Months in Prison

(Athens, Greece) An unidentified traveler said he got nervous due to a 45-minute delay in takeoff of his Olympic Airlines flight so he needed to smoke.

From SFGate.com:

A Greek court sentenced a man to 15 months in prison for smoking on a plane, and then hitting a male flight attendant who told him to put his cigarette out, court officials said Thursday.

The 50-year-old Greek resident of New York was also convicted of endangering the aircraft. He was traveling on Olympic Airlines Flight No. 412 from New York to Athens last week.

It appears that the man was belligerent and obnoxious in his interaction with the crew which probably contributed to the length of his sentence. Dummy.