One for the road!
A drunk passenger hijacked an unoccupied golf cart and went on a destructive joyride in front of shocked travelers inside New York’s Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Wyoming resident Kevin Sinning is accused of commandeering an electric golf cart and plowing the vehicle onto a moving walkway as he unleashed mayhem inside the terminal just before 1 a.m. on July 28, according to officials.
Sinning, 29, was captured on video breaking the glass paneling while airport workers pleaded for him to stop, according to witness video captured inside the terminal.
He freed the cart from one side of the walkway and then careened towards the end of the two-level terminal.
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority officials said Sinning was “visibly intoxicated.”
“I think he’s drunk,” one witness said in the video.
He turned around at the end of the concourse, where gates belonging to Delta and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority are located, and he weaved the car around several wet floor signs laid out around the open terminal floor.
The erratic flyer drove towards the other side of the conveyor belt.
“Oh s–t he’s going down the other one,” someone shouted.
Sinning forced the cart into the opening and drove down the aisle, causing more destruction.
Airport employees shouted to stop the unphased Sinning, who continued his cruise around the airport terminal.
“You can tell something was not right with him,” witness Tom Brennon told WGRZ. “He was not responding to demands and the people telling him to stop and they had it all. He was totally disregarding the people around him.”
The cart continuously bounced as it made its way through the narrow walkway due to the tight squeeze.
A haze appeared to fill the building as the cart’s left side tires rode the low rail of the machine.
NFTA officials alleged Sinning caused extensive damage to the walkway, glass panels and the cart. Shattered glass and metal panels lay scattered on the walkways following Sinning’s drive.
Officials eventually arrested Sinning and charged him with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal nuisance and grand larceny.
Sinning’s stunt went viral on social media as one TikTok video was viewed over 9 million times.
“I’m guessing it’s going to be a learning experience for everyone involved,” Brennon told the outlet. “This has got to be the first time it happened at our airport.”
The Post has reached out to the NFTA for comment.
With Post wires
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