Friday, April 28, 2006

Must Have Been a Shiraz

The April 3 issue of People Weekly magazine carries a story on the side-effects of the sleeping pill Ambien, including people driving, painting, and shagging in their sleep.

"Last July 11, British painter Sean Joyce, then 38, boarded a US Airways flight in Charlotte, N.C., with a tablet of Ambien his mother had slipped him for the long trip back to London. After taking the pill and drinking some wine, Joyce, normally mild-mannered, ripped off his shirt, threatened to kill other passengers and head-butted a flight attendant. The flight had to be diverted to Boston, where Joyce was led off by police. "The last thing I remember was sitting on the aircraft," he says. "The next thing I was waking up in jail"

Simply a misunderstanding between two cultures, surely?

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