Anger or alcoholism?
SEPTEMBER 2004
Alcoholic Myth-of-the-Month: "He was a young guy with a lot of testosterone. He just seemed to be angry."
This was the explanation ascribed by a sheriff' deputy, Frank Sherwood, to the behaviors of a man arrested at an airport terminal while arguing with officials (St. Petersburg Times, August 6, 2004).
Joseph G. Ernst, 24, agreed to leave a plane which was still boarding after being confronted over disrupting flight attendants and making other passengers uncomfortable. Amazingly, an airline representative tried to schedule him for another flight while Sherwood, who had escorted him off the plane, tried to calm him down. Ernst began yelling and swearing at the employee and subsequently tore off his shirt in what was described as "Hulk ...
