“The police say that drunken unruliness by two executives of the BlackBerry maker Research in Motion forced the diversion and delay of a Toronto-to-Beijing flight on Monday,” Ian Austen and Susanne Craig report for The New York Times. “The two pleaded guilty to a criminal count of mischief and were suspended from their positions pending an investigation.”
“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that they were informed by Air Canada that the plane was turning around and heading to Vancouver, British Columbia, to drop off the two disruptive passengers about seven hours after the flight left Toronto,” Austen and Craig report. “Cpl. Sherrdean Turley, a spokeswoman for the police, said in an e-mail that although the two men were not brawling ‘they were intoxicated and weren’t listening to anything they were told to do/asked to do by the airline crew.'”
Austen and Craig report, “George Campbell, 45, and Paul A. Wilson, 38, both pleaded guilty in court to one count of mischief under Canadian criminal law. They were given suspended sentences and were each required to pay 35,878 Canadian dollars ($35,382) to Air Canada. They have been placed on probation for a year and may not travel on Air Canada or have contact with any of its employees.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: After being steamrolled by Apple like a deer in the headlights and confronted with the imminent end of Amateur Hour, it’s not surprising that some RIM employees are driven to drink. Use up those expense accounts while they last, boys!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chas” for the heads up.]
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