Delta bans drunk flirt for life
A Georgia man who tried to impress a young Georgia lady aboard a Delta flight after quaffing multiple mixed drinks has been banned from the Atlanta-based airline for life.
Five of these can make the "friendly skies" too friendly, according to recent reports.
“I’m a dumb[bleep],” says Bryan Sisco, 40, from Winston in south Douglas County, in The Commercial Appeal.
The Memphis newspaper recounts the following tale:
Sisco drank beer before heading to the Dallas airport for an evening flight to Atlanta. Once there, Delta flight 2060 was delayed for a couple of hours, so he got hopped up on five double whiskey and Cokes.
When he boarded the plane last Thursday, Sisco, who said he’s in the process of getting a divorce, sat in the wrong seat and began flirting with Danielle Valimont, 23, from Griffin.
In her blog, Valimont said Sisco asked “Have you ever wondered if someone could get something on the plane they weren’t supposed to?”
Then he fired up a “silver metal torch-like item,” Valimont wrote.
TSA, it seems, was once again feeling up the wrong people.
Sisco told her he had a gas cannister that could make everyone on board pass out.
She freaked out and texted a message to friends — “‘I’m sitting beside a crazy man.”
The loquacious passenger told her he was an air marshal, a job he was “born into” because his dad was in the CIA.
Valimont faked a bathroom run and alerted a flight attendant to the amorous loon.
Pilots diverted the plane to Memphis, where police came aboard and arrested Sisco, who says he has no recollection of that event.
“I fell asleep, and woke up in handcuffs in Memphis with the FBI questioning me, Sisco told The Commercial Appeal. “I spent three days in a county jail and a fourth day in a federal penitentiary. I was stripped buck-naked twice.”
Facing charges of carrying a weapon or explosive on an aircraft, he was released on a $10,000 bond.
Delta’s no longer ready when you are Mr. Sisco.
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110 comments Add your comment
MsJoiner
May 27th, 2011
3:56 pm
This is why I stick to wine on Delta. Whiskey and cokes get anyone in trouble.
Mile High Club
May 27th, 2011
4:50 pm
Its all fun and games until you’re “stripped buck-naked twice” in a Federal Penitentiary.
Pirate
May 27th, 2011
4:53 pm
I have NEVER understood the concept of wanting to get drunk either in an airport, or even worse, on a plane. I mean, the last place on earth I want to get hammered is in a small contained metal cylinder, strapped to an uncomfortable chair, with a lot of other people all around me who are NOT drinking. Seriously. Everything fun about drinking is the polar opposite of being on a plane.
Mile High Club
May 27th, 2011
4:56 pm
I wonder if he’s kin to the guy that ran down the “up” escalator in 2002 while being chased by police and thus shutting down both Hartsfield and disrupting air traffic on the entire eastern seaboard?
rh
May 27th, 2011
4:56 pm
Ron White said it and I believe it: “You can’t fix stupid.”
Tim
May 27th, 2011
4:57 pm
Pirate – I agree 100%. I don’t see the fascination with drinking and flying.
KF
May 27th, 2011
5:00 pm
And yet, the reasons behind his pending divorce remain unclear…
1fasteddie
May 27th, 2011
5:00 pm
There, but for the grace of god…
rh
May 27th, 2011
5:00 pm
Enter your comments here
Red
May 27th, 2011
5:02 pm
He was likely stripped a couple of more times when he was in his cell!! Only Bubba will ever know.
Michael
May 27th, 2011
5:08 pm
Have sworn off drunk calling and drunk emailing. Next, drunk flying.
Hindu Elvis Pimp
May 27th, 2011
5:13 pm
Jack Daniels and Coke…..The redneck refreshment.
mentalgiant
May 27th, 2011
5:13 pm
I think the TSA may be our solution for the future of healthcare. Where else can you get a free x-ray and if you refuse to allow them to x-ray you, you can get a free colonoscopy.
Big Reg
May 27th, 2011
5:18 pm
Who proofread this column before it posted? Is it “Sisco” or “Cisco”?
AFeltUpCITIZEN
May 27th, 2011
5:32 pm
Why are we not concerned that the Gestapo TSA allowed this idiot past their ever-so-efficient screening with an incendiary device ? ? This is further proof that TSA screening is totally useless and must be halted immediately.
Unfortunately, our Congress hasn’t got the sense to understand that even a drunken idiot can easily outsmart the TSA security measures. So, the particular TSA Gorillas who screened him should be singled out and FIRED immediately, and every other jackbooted TSA employee at DFW Airport should be retrained BEFORE they are allowed to come anywhere near another TSA security line.
DHD
May 27th, 2011
5:35 pm
Probably a Dawg fan.
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE
May 27th, 2011
5:40 pm
Kudos to Delta and the young lady for alerting the “Real Air Marshals” about this dumbazz…Luv it, hope the booty bandits in the Federal Pen, made him their Bit**…
You Cannot Fix STUPID and It HURTS…
Relationship Expert
May 27th, 2011
5:40 pm
I’m sure he is invisible at the Sisco Family Reunion.
Halsey
May 27th, 2011
5:41 pm
So the guy goes to jail 4 days, and during one of those days they spend the time and money to transport him from county jail to federal penitentiary..lol, wow.
freenow
May 27th, 2011
5:47 pm
whiskey / coke—a waste of good whiskey. Drink whiskey straight or with just a little water (not too much). It’s not worth wasting.
frequent flyer
May 27th, 2011
5:48 pm
Now he should know the drink minimum, before you blurt out words you would regret. It was juvenile what he done, guess he paid the consequences and is part of the system now……
Realist
May 27th, 2011
5:51 pm
DHD
Why? Because he was talking to a woman? Let me guess you went to Tech?
His story sure beats the hell out of your experiences at Star Trek Conventions, loser!
Paul
May 27th, 2011
5:55 pm
What idiot kept serving him double whiskey and Cokes after, oh, three or so? Guy deserves jail for mixing whiskey with Coke anyway.
dontgothere
May 27th, 2011
5:55 pm
what a dipstick this guy is. and the comment about the cause of his divorce being a mystery – not to me it isn’t. it’s probably his behavior over and over and over and over again. no doubt alcohol is always involved and his wife got fed up and got gone from his life. and to the person who said that the TSA agents should be fired – just so you know if the guy got wasted in the airport bar that is WELL PAST THE TSA POINT so NOT their fault although TSA really is useless merely because of the incendiary device he lit up (metal torch-like item) on the plane. allowing THAT thru is reason for immediate termination.
Realist
May 27th, 2011
5:56 pm
Mr. Sisco dumber than dumb. I bet his wife’s divorce lawyer is loving this. Get help Sisco. Dumb people shouldn’t drink.
Diamond Dave
May 27th, 2011
5:57 pm
We need to bring him to Atlanta and take him to our strip clubs where he can really see what Buck Nekkid is all about!
The Nerd
May 27th, 2011
6:07 pm
The reason I hate whiskey and Coke (or in my case, Coke Zero) in the first place is that they don’t belong in the same sentence.
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The Nerd
May 27th, 2011
6:12 pm
Besides, I’m more strictly the beer type (perferably the non-alcoholic brand).
Mary Ann
May 27th, 2011
6:19 pm
Enter your connemts here.
DrunkIdiot
May 27th, 2011
6:26 pm
“I fell asleep and woke up in handcuffs…” I usually call that passing out…tomato…tomato…
Eddie Lee
May 27th, 2011
6:43 pm
The Sisco kid strikes again!
AlG
May 27th, 2011
6:50 pm
I guess he won’t be making Platinum Medallion status this year–or ever!
After Dark
May 27th, 2011
6:55 pm
I always fly Delta drunk after I throw a couple back in the crown room with the pilots. This is the only way I can deal with the other drunks pretending to be Federal Marshall and inviting me to join the Mile High club.
Hey Marcel
May 27th, 2011
7:01 pm
Delta should give the guy another chance. Seriously, If OJ wasn’t in jail Delta would let him fly.
jc_atl
May 27th, 2011
7:41 pm
Sounds like TSA is doing a bang-up job.
emack
May 27th, 2011
7:41 pm
why the hell he had to bring that thing on the plane and what was his intentions
who the hell served this guy five double whiskey and Cokes. ..
thats 10 shots in a row right?
the establishments should be charged for that
i bet the dumb ass got a lawsuit
lol at the person who said did they proofread this lol
emack
May 27th, 2011
7:43 pm
and i bet TSA did what they usually do
they didnt catch it. .
they gone have tighten up but that start with who ever is running it and not so
much the workers although greatly important
they missing something
bigdawg
May 27th, 2011
8:20 pm
Why can I comment on drivel such as this, but I can’t comment on the stupid things our legislature/guv’ner are doing to our state!?!
I can go to other newspaper’s websites in blue and red states and comment on politics, but not in the AJC. Henry Grady shudders!
Brainiac
May 27th, 2011
9:04 pm
I can make an accurate guess as to the main cause of his pending divorce. Bottoms up.
Mecq
May 27th, 2011
9:58 pm
He must be an Anglo, because I get stripped down at every point and I advise TSA that I have an unremoveable bracelette and am wearing an underwire bra. So I would prefer the scanner. They choose to pat me down everytime. It gets jiggy and I almost ask in the end “Where’s my Kiss.!”..It’s called profiling. LOL…….!!!!
LO
May 27th, 2011
10:07 pm
Why wasn’t the weapon or explosive he had in his possession not found before he boarded the plane.
Liam Biamself
May 27th, 2011
10:15 pm
I cain bleeve det de gir dint fowl fudet! Ah trah det own owl da lay-diz ain it work owlmos owl da tam, yo! Sum’in be rownk wid det bee-otch t’not wona go be witda doodt. She ain rat!
English translation: I can’t believe that the girl didn’t fall for that! I tried that on all th ladies and it works almost all the time, see! Something is wrong with that bicth to not want to go with the dude. She ain’t right!
Go Figure
May 27th, 2011
10:24 pm
“I advise TSA that I have an unremoveable bracelette [sic] and am wearing an underwire bra.”
And He’s a Man.
LOL yourself.
Profiling my backside.
Atlantaphotog
May 27th, 2011
11:08 pm
A perfect example of why the South lost the war.
Suze
May 27th, 2011
11:52 pm
OK, the guy (correctly) identified himself as a dumb___. But a “lifetime ban”? Really?
Delta has had metro Atlantans by the cojones for way too long; I can’t wait until we can fly Southwest out of ATL!
Art
May 27th, 2011
11:54 pm
So the important thing this story leaves out…did he get laid?
Holly
May 28th, 2011
12:03 am
The comments on here are funnier than the story! Good sow
Callie
May 28th, 2011
12:14 am
So everything is based on what the girl said? Playing devil’s advocate here, but what if she just didn’t like him and made the whole thing up? I guess the morale of the story is the same…drunk during travel = bad idea.
boots
May 28th, 2011
12:18 am
I have never understood how the airline (I fly Delta almost exclusively) can help people get loaded, esp. in first class, where they then land and head to a car to drive home. It seems unlikely one can sober up in the 45 minutes it takes to get off the plane, get your bag and get behind the wheel. This guy is not alone when it comes to idiotic flight behavior.
dd
May 28th, 2011
12:31 am
At least he didn’t try to light a fart.
Bill
May 28th, 2011
1:35 am
Guy’s a moron. No help for him. Reminds me of the guy with the old corvette in the used car lot in that True Lies movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
george
May 28th, 2011
1:35 am
you might be a redneck. . . . . too bad the much abused flight attendants are apparently not allowed to limit the number of drinks served since alcohol apparently has a near doubling effect at altirude so this fool had the equivalent of 10 doubles during this fiasco. no doubt this genius has already added to the gene pool as well. let’s just give china the keys now and get it over with.
Paperman
May 28th, 2011
2:16 am
Yeah, this guy’s crazy and his stomach may have been churning after eating one of Delta’s “YUM YUM” meals.
This really could have been disastrous folks.
The restroom may have been full and this guy freaks out.
He knows he’s got to cut one
He’s thinking if I’m gonna cut one I might as well light it
He could have really flipped, cut a nuclear fart and torched it but somehow this guy finds the inner strength to be content with the one cheek sneak.
Who knows what would have happened had this guy not fallen asleep?
truthpaste
May 28th, 2011
2:21 am
And people say profiling doesn’t exist?
/
May 28th, 2011
7:11 am
people are stupid. i have known this my whole life.
Ponder
May 28th, 2011
8:26 am
You are wrong, You can fix stupid. Do not vote for Obama next time and at least you want be as stupid!!!
Sober 22 years
May 28th, 2011
8:49 am
He needs help (like many ignorant people who have a problem admitting it) and should do something about his alcoholism.
Hello
May 28th, 2011
8:52 am
The fact that this man is from Douglas County should explain a lot!
Let the Big Dawg Eat
May 28th, 2011
9:05 am
Leave the poor boy alone. He’s going through a divorce. And he’s from Douglas County, so he doesn’t know quite how to behave.
Hillbilly D
May 28th, 2011
9:15 am
If one is going to be dumb, one has to be tough.
wonderfulwidget
May 28th, 2011
9:29 am
Well, he’ll have to add a day to his travels out of Atlanta from now on. Hello Southwest point to point to point to point flying !
ls1z28chris
May 28th, 2011
9:49 am
People who don’t understand drinking on planes probably haven’t taken transoceanic flights.
You suck
May 28th, 2011
10:19 am
Very poorly written with a crappy headline. This has nothing to do with the guy being drunk and flirty. Horrible read.
/
May 28th, 2011
10:38 am
there is nothing worse than an ex drunk. i swear to buddha
Sam
May 28th, 2011
10:47 am
Ummm… how did he get the “torch-like item” past the TSA? The system FAILED but we’re just commenting on the banning of a drunk flirt? What security checkpoint did he go through, we need to know so everyone who screened Sisco gets re-trained on how to do their job. :/
Dr. Warren
May 28th, 2011
10:56 am
Is this journalism?
George Mathis
May 28th, 2011
11:00 am
No, it is a humor news blog.
tracey
May 28th, 2011
11:03 am
What an idiot.
/
May 28th, 2011
11:24 am
paging dr warren get back to wsj stat!
oh well
May 28th, 2011
12:00 pm
dumb ass
Wreckmaniac
May 28th, 2011
12:32 pm
Whats unusual about this ? Every flight to Jax the week before the “big game” is filled with UGA fans just like this guy ? Well, I guess if my team had never won I would get a little sloshed myself.
Mr. Ed
May 28th, 2011
1:02 pm
“Whiskey river take my mind don’t let her memory torture me
Whiskey river don’t run dry you’re all I’ve got take care of me.”
- Willie Nelson
I’m not sure if Willie ever envisioned this happening though.
Jules Hansen
May 28th, 2011
1:02 pm
Yea. But he was drunk when he said that.
I find it helps tolerate the screaming and crying kids.
Jules Hansen
May 28th, 2011
1:08 pm
Ron White that is.
Simple Jack
May 28th, 2011
1:15 pm
Boy, you have got to wonder what his soon-to-be ex-wife is thinking. a) Thank God I’m off-loading this dipstick; b) How can I use this to burn him in court?
On the other side, Air Marshall Sisco does have a nice ring to it…..
ROFLMAO
Gump
May 28th, 2011
2:46 pm
“…Sisco asked “Have you ever wondered if someone could get something on the plane they weren’t supposed to?”
Probably referring to a meal.
kenny wadd
May 28th, 2011
3:43 pm
Well, I think we’ve all been there…
Mr. Ed
May 28th, 2011
4:01 pm
“Well, I think we’ve all been there…”
Drunk?
Yes.
Handcuffed,incarcerated, strip searched,and questioned by the FBI?
Ummm… No.
Julia
May 28th, 2011
5:01 pm
The only good drunk on a plane is a passed out one.
After Dark
May 28th, 2011
5:31 pm
Great story George… Keep them coming.. I fly three times a week… I am sure we will see him in a new movie “Passenger 69″ Escape from The Clermont Lounge
Ed
May 28th, 2011
8:29 pm
Red—- by now Bubba knows
molly.jane
May 28th, 2011
8:38 pm
OMG….Thank goodness he wasn”t smoking a cigarette.
Debie
May 28th, 2011
10:57 pm
TSA needs to be held responsible for errors. TSA is the first line of defense. There needs to be a way to trace which TSA scanner made the error, failed to verify identity,or failed to detect band items. Gate agents need the authority to deny boarding to an intoxicated passenger and flight attendants need to restrict alcohol.
hypoxemia
May 28th, 2011
11:05 pm
It is well known that the reduced pressure of an aircraft cabin (I believe equal to 3000 feet rather than sea level) significantly potentiates the effects of alcohol.
Joe
May 29th, 2011
12:45 am
I fly Delta a lot. One or two Heinekens are just fine…. This guy clearly did not know his limits!
DJ
May 29th, 2011
12:46 am
Can Delta ban someone for life?
BugsBunny
May 29th, 2011
7:54 am
I’m sure this genius drank before heading to the airport because flight attendants won’t serve any passenger more than 2 drinks on a flight. He did not expect the lengthy delay and foolishly broke the cardinal drinking rule: “Beer before liquor, never sicker.” I’m amazed he was able to get past the gate crew in that condition. He must have been stumbling, slurring and stinking of booze.
Mike
May 29th, 2011
7:57 am
He was drunk! Give the guy a break!
Maria
May 29th, 2011
10:23 am
There’s a number of behaviors that are best left at home. Instead of bringing them with us for the world to see.When one forgets their common sense there are consequences,at times very ‘high priced’ ones.
tina
May 29th, 2011
2:15 pm
My hubby works at a federal penitentiary. You can best believe he was still drunk when inmate #68774 stripped him two more times…..he just dont remember. Bless his heart.
Anthony Cook
May 29th, 2011
9:07 pm
Lol so there goes the preposterous hypotesis (unproven fact, thought, feeling, law, and or theary) where a hugh, tower black should be in question. If it were me, i would be tried for: dui, attemped rape, attemped murder, impersonating a fed agent, and placed on tsa’s no fly list. Fyi – i don’t drink.
ralph
May 29th, 2011
9:45 pm
Why do they even serve alcohol on flights, or in airports to begin with. I have numerous stories day in and day out of drunk passengers, flight crew, etc, causing disturbances. Serving booze on a jet at 38,000 feet is stupid. I am not saying drinking is bad, but being cramped into a flying metal tube and being able to down booze, is a recipe for disaster.
Who Cares?
May 29th, 2011
10:27 pm
OK, I guess if they want to ban the guy for being drunk and not making logical decisions, that’s their way of making themselves look like the concerned compassionant company they want to be perceived as. Now, what are their plans for the ASA pilot (their pilot) who killed the woman in Norcross last week? Lets see how “politically correct” Delta is with that one. In case you forgot: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28066324/detail.html
Who Cares?
May 29th, 2011
10:31 pm
Conpassionate, not compassionant! Sorry! Thought for a minute I was a writer for the AJC!
al wheeler
May 29th, 2011
11:25 pm
We do live in the land of idiots.
Max
May 29th, 2011
11:29 pm
Any wonder why the term Ugly American was coined.
Chuck Snow
May 30th, 2011
12:11 am
It’s easy to see that Bryan Sisco, from Winston Is they’re village idiot, and no longer is missing.
Panties
May 30th, 2011
7:38 am
I would not be caught drunk doing something like that. Besides, I don’t talk to young women because they are stupid.
Mark
May 30th, 2011
9:42 am
Wow. Just wow. I got a $10k bond for not refunding a clients retainer. This MF gets a $10k bond for threatning to blow up an airplane. F#$@* the justice system.
Julie L
May 30th, 2011
10:18 am
VERY FUNNY, KF… Hard to believe a great catch like this guy would be in the middle of a divorce…(hahahaha)
Stephanie
May 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
The State of Georgia is embarrassed enough by the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Now this idiot makes us look even worse. Thanks, Mr. Sisco. . . . . .NOT!!
MIke
May 31st, 2011
12:20 am
Getting drunk before or on the plane makes it more bearable. Your so packed into the sardine can you want to be able to relax with some drinks. I just don’t understand why people will pay ballpark prices for drinks on a plane. At least mix some nitrous in the oxygen, Delta!
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Last Word
June 2nd, 2011
2:53 pm
But honey, I was drunk!
I know it’s not an excuse, . . . .
BUT IT’S A REASON!
Mac.
June 3rd, 2011
3:53 pm
I can just see his ex running to her attorney and demanding an increase in alimony and child support, waving the articles this moron has generated. Her grounds? increased shame and stress. He has federal charges to answer to, as well as stupidity recognition. All in all a great day for lawyers!
BillyBob
June 4th, 2011
9:49 am
Being kicked off Delta for life is not a punishment!!!
Chris
June 9th, 2011
9:35 pm
I drink about 4 to 5 vodka and sprites at the beginning of each flight. Just because I puts me to sleep and because when I fly its for pleasure not business. I know I won’t act like a moron after I’ve had a few either….. This guy deserves everything he has coming to him!
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