Did This 'Tiara-Wearing Lunatic' Bite a Fellow Plane Passenger or Is It Just a Case of Class Envy?
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New York art curator Stacy Engman (who has a very colorful Instagram, for what it’s worth) was issued a summons for assault after allegedly biting a fellow first class passenger on a flight from Istanbul to JFK last summer. The best detail of the case: Engman, ever the elegant lady, was wearing a tiara when the biting supposedly happened
In an article perfectly headlined “Tiara-wearing lunatic bites passenger on JFK-bound flight,” the New York Post reports that the confrontation occurred when a fellow passenger confronted Engman, 38, for taking up too much room:
After the fellow passenger bristled, Engman began to raise and lower the adjustable armrest into the woman’s leg before launching into a stream of insults.
When the other woman told her to cool it and turned away, Engman bit her on the backside, according to a criminal complaint.
Prior to the biting, according to the court papers, Engman “told anyone who would listen she had been on a yacht for five days.”
As one witness puts it, she “was aggressive from the beginning of the flight.”