It’s safe to say this man was not having a good day
Chris Spags A bi-polar man who lost his job and could no longer afford his medicine stormed into a Phoenix airport, stripped off his clothes, and threatened people with a knife. Typically any one of those things could lead to a problem so, when you accomplish all four, you know you’re really doing something special.
Surveillance video shows the man storming into the airport with a knife, then stripping off all his clothes.
Police say the man was upset because he had just lost his job and was having trouble paying his bills. He originally told cops that he was bi-polar and hadn’t taken his medicine.
27 year-old Daniel Greene was quickly apprehended and it’s all thanks to an alert airport employee.
Todd Pennington tells FOX 10 that he first saw Greene pull up to Terminal 2 and run into the airport.
When Greene began to throw things around near a ticket counter, Pennington jumped in to try and help.
“He (Greene) starts telling me, I’m going to strip down to my underwear and I’m going to embarrass you. I said, well, it’s not going to embarrass me.”
I feel bad for the guy because mental illness is a serious thing and not something to be mocked. But on a micro level, how crazy is it that a slight change of chemicals in your brain makes you go from a typical office worker to an airport, nude, wielding a knife? There really isn’t a lot of common ground between those two things. Unless your office’s Casual Friday really took some liberties.
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