Duh!

   Christopher Hughes and Thomas Cloyd, former America West pilots, are charged with operating a plane while under the influence of alcohol. They were in the cockpit of Airbus 319 in Miami on July 1, 2002, as it was being towed to the runway for takeoff. There were 124 passengers and three flight attendants aboard the plane, when a security screener reported the two as being red-eyed and clearly under the influence, The plane was ordered back to the gate and the two were taken out of the cockpit. The prosecution says that they acted negligently and endangered the lives of those on board. Their defence attorney says they should not be convicted because they were not operating the plane yet, when they were hauled off. He says they could still "walk and see", after all.
   Now there's great criteria on which to judge someone capable of piloting the plane you're on. Won't you feel so much more safe knowing the standards are so high, if these two turkeys are acquitted? You wouldn't want to be on a plane trusting your life to a pilot who couldn't even see the crash scene as it hurtled toward him ... and, you ... now would you?
   I think the defence attorney should be taken to a bar with these two idiots, but not allowed to join in as he watches them get sloshed. Then they could all walk together (so the attorney can check that they can indeed still walk) to the plane, and buckle up for takeoff. No other passengers and no attendants should be aboard, though. The treat of having these two inebriated idiots in the cockpit should be reserved just special for their attorney.
   What do you think?