{"id":594,"date":"2010-12-29T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/passenger-punches-teen-for-refusing-to-turn-off-phone\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:39:00","slug":"passenger-punches-teen-for-refusing-to-turn-off-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/passenger-punches-teen-for-refusing-to-turn-off-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Punches Teen for Refusing to Turn Off Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nA 68-year-old man was arrested in Boise after he punched a teenage boy aboard a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to police, the altercation took place during the landing of a flight from Las Vegas to Boise after the boy refused to turn off his cell phone as instructed by the plane crew.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRussell Miller, the elderly assailant, felt he needed to take action, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe boy, who was flying alone, did not require immediate medical attention.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMiller was later booked on a misdemeanor battery charge in the Ada County Jail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2010\/12\/29\/Angry-air-traveler-punches-teenage-boy\/UPI-45841293628769\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPI <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old man was arrested in Boise after he punched a teenage boy aboard a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday night. According to police, the altercation took place during the landing of a flight from Las Vegas to Boise after the boy refused to turn off his cell phone as instructed by the plane crew. Russell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}