A bumpy ride

Can it really have been a year since Victoria Osteen's airplane tantrum? How time flies! Fortunately, we won't have to go through the 2006 holiday season without more wacky on-board antics. Unfortunately, Mrs. Osteen isn't involved this time — instead, it's a guy names Nboru Akao, who is expected to appear in federal court today after making a jackass of himself on a flight yesterday.

According to KTRK, Akao became unruly during the last two and a half hours of a seven-hour flight from Honolulu to Houston. He is accused of groping a flight attendant and trashing one of the airplane's restrooms and eventually had to be restrained with flex cuffs to keep him from groping/trashing more. Sounds to us like Akao might have had one too many of those tiny bottles of liquor.

Akao was arrested when the plane landed at Bush Intercontinental. If he's indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of interfering with a flight attendant, he could face a $250,000 fine and 20 years in federal prison with a three-year term of supervised release.