Earlier this week, I read about an Irish man named Terrence Crosbie who was accused of rape while visiting Boston over St. Patrick’s Day weekend. After police first questioned Crosbie, he booked a Saturday night flight back to his native country, forgoing Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities in the obvious hopes of eluding justice. He then managed to get a seat on an even earlier Saturday flight. He was caught in the nick of time, with his plane stopped on the tarmac, seemingly as it was preparing to take off. It’s a hell of a story.

A similar situation occurred the very next day in Utah, when a man named Wicliff Yves Fleurizard attempted to fly home to Austin in a rather unorthodox manner.

He had been booked on a Southwest flight but was later rebooked, as the flight was full.

Instead of waiting for the next Southwest flight, he went into the Delta area of the airport, where he was seen on surveillance footage taking photos of multiple passenger’s phones and their boarding passes while they were not looking. He then used the pictures on his own phone to ultimately board Flight 1683.

After boarding this flight, Fleurizard hid in the lavatory for an extended period. The plane also taxied toward the runway, headed for takeoff, before the issue was discovered and the plane turned around. Like Crosbie, things did not end well for Fleurizard.

Previously in winging across America with mala fides: Perception Is Reality