We were taxiing to take off, when the stewardess went to the back of the plane to get a passenger to stop talking on his phone. Unfortunately for us all, the passenger didn’t stop talking, and turned out to be piss drunk. So we all had the pleasure of returning to the gate to wait for the Sacramento Sheriff’s department to arrive and escort the man off the plane. All while this man continued to talk on his phone. His removal was remarkably uneventful however. He departed without incident. But then the stewardess and captain had to fill out some forms before we could take off again. Naturally however, the 1+ hour delay caused me to miss my connection from SFO to SBA. Luckily, I was able to get SFO’s United Red Carpet Club staff to get me a room at the nearby Embassy Suites for the night.

Just like on your flight the people arriving from Turkey had brought all sorts of bags with them.

Then leaving Uzbekistan, I was stopped twice between customs and emigration to make sure I had declared all money. Considering this is a 10 meter walk it was impressive by them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-42