Man unbuttons pants to ‘urinate’ on mum and son, 7, in busy airport ready space
Chaos unfolded at an airport in Florida after a man allegedly pulled down his pants to urinate in the direction of a family who were waiting to board a flight. Lawrence Raben was arrested
The chaos unfolded at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
A man has been taken into police custody after authorities say he unbuttoned his pants in an airport waiting area before urinating on a seven-year-old boy and his parents.
Lawrence Raben, 48, was reportedly sat in a passenger waiting area at a Florida airport when the chaos unfolded. The man allegedly began peeing in the direction of the couple and their son, who police say were splashed with urine.
According to a criminal complaint, Raben was across from the family near a gate inside Terminal 3 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when he exposed himself around 11.30am on Tuesday. Cops say that “as Raben urinated toward the family,” Brittany Purdy and her son were “struck by the urine”.
Lawrence Raben has been booked into county jail following the pee incident
As Raben “exposed himself and began urinating,” several other passengers “dispersed from the area,” reports The Smoking Gun. Raben, a Fort Lauderdale resident, was subsequently arrested and booked into the county jail.
He was charged with misdemeanor battery, indecent exposure and disorderly intoxication counts. He was also charged with a felony for allegedly causing a minor to have contact with bodily fluids.
It is not known whether Raben was waiting to board a flight in the secured area or had flown in earlier.
It is not known whether Raben was waiting to board a flight in the secured area or had flown in earlier(Image: Getty Images)
Raben’s Facebook profile says he is a divorced dad of two and lists himself as a project manager for a kitchen remodeling firm.
His rap sheet includes a 2011 no contest plea to a domestic battery charge for which he was sentenced to probation and ordered to complete a batterer’s intervention program.
Meanwhile, a boozed-up woman who exposed her vagina to horrified passengers on a TUI flight after pulling down her underwear and squatting in the aisle is facing jail. Read the full story here.
Sarah Parker, 30, was on her way to Melbourne in Florida from Birmingham Airport on July 24 last year when the chaos unfolded. Parker, who boarded the plane drunk, got out of her seat to use the bathroom during take-off despite being given strict instructions not to.
Cabin crew reminded Parker of the rules, however, she swiftly pulled down both her shorts and underwear – and stood in the aisle where fellow travellers could see her.
The boozed-up Brit, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, then started behaving in an indecent manner by “pulling down her shorts and underwear, squatting and exposing her vagina in full view of other passengers,” noted the charge document.
The charge added that she “failed to obey a lawful command, namely sitting in her seat after being instructed to do so and making her way to the toilet”.
Parker previously pleaded guilty to outraging public decency. She also pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the pilot’s lawful safety instructions and to being intoxicated on a plane.
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