又一件发生在飞机上的往事 - MJ制止了一场争执

MJ维生素 · 发表于 2010-8-6 18:28:57

本帖最后由 MJ维生素于 2010-8-6 18:33 编辑

(This is told by Don Barrett, a celebrity in the world of radio and founder and publisher of LA Radio.)

One year on my way to Cannes, I hard to travel from LAX to Berlin and then make a connective flight to Cannes. In first class there were five rows with two seats on each side of the plane. I was sitting in the aisle seat in row three on the left. In front of me was a single gentleman. The front two seats were occupied but they were already seated when I got comfortable for the 12 hour flight.

The man in front of me asked for a cocktail prior to take-off. Once airborne, he was the recipient of a steady stream of drinks. About a half-hour into our flight, the man on the aisle in the front seat stood and moved to the center of the cabin. His seatmate got up and stood behind him.

Another man who was in the front seat of the aisle on the right side of the plane got up and joined the two standing in the cabin and got behind the second man. In almost lock step the walked to the toilet. The cabin lights were dim for those who wanted to sleep on the long flight. As they walked by me it was clear that the man in the abbreviated parade was Michael Jackson.

The flight progressed but the man in front of me never stopped with requesting more booze. Eventually the steward cut him off. I could only guess the perfect storm that was brewing. Frequently raising this voice in the quiet cabin, it was easy to hear his entitlement demands after paying so much for a first class ticket and that they had no right to stop serving him. The steward as firm.

The boozy man kept ringing the call-button and the steward reluctantly would come to his seat, only to be greeted by insults for refusing his right to service. After a third call-button ring, the boozy man apparently was waiting for the steward. The steward repeated what he had told the man about no more service. The boozy man leapt like gazelle onto the steward and they both crashed to the floor. They wrestled. You could hear another steward frantically summoning the pilot who quickly come down to see what the commotion was all about.

With no fanfare, no lights, no audience, a concerned Michael Jackson got up and separated the two sparring men. As soon as they realized that the King of Pop was acting as peacemaker, they sheepishly stopped like school kinds busted by the principal or even their own mom. The captain (or co-captain) arrived on the scene to see that peace had been restored with no bloodshed.

Michael asked his bodyguard friend to sit in the boozy man’s seat and invited the inebriated man to sit with him. I couldn’t hear a word that was spoken by Michael nor his new seatmate but they were taking away for 20 minutes. Michael signaled to his bodyguard to help the boozy man back to his seat. Within minutes he had passed out and slept for the duration of the flight. Michael and his bodyguard were both back together to complete the remaining hours in relative silence.

It was a rare glimpse into Michael Jackson. Who knew he would be a peacemaker at 30,000 feet on what could have erupted into an ugly confrontation?

Extracted from: http://www.innermichael.com/2010 ... nter-at-30000-feet/

翻译：
有一年我需要由洛杉矶飞柏林然后乘接机去康城。在头等机舱共有5行，左右各有两个坐位。我坐在左手边第3行的走廊位，我的前面坐了一位男士，而最前的一行的两个位已经有人早坐在那里。

我前面的男人在起飞前已经要求鸡尾酒，而他没间断的要求饮料。起飞后半小时左右，坐第一行走廊位的男人站起来走到机舱的中间，而他的同座朋友也起来并站在他身后。

另一个男人，坐在右手边的走廊位，也起来并站在第二个起来的人的后面。他们走向流手间。机舱的灯光暗淡，让坐长途机的人可以睡。当他们一行人经过我身边，很清楚的在这中间的那人是迈克尔杰克逊。
航程继续而我前面的男人没有停止地要求酒精饮品。最后机舱服务员不再给他供应。我只能猜想一场风暴因此正在酝酿。那男人经常提高声线，指他花了那么多钱坐头等，服务员没权利不提供他要求的服务。那位机舱服务员却很坚持。

那男人不停按制把机舱服务员招来，而那机舱服务员每次不情愿地前来后只换来那男人的侮辱。第三次按制，机舱服务员又向男人重复说不会给要求的服务，男人便如羚羊般跳到机舱服务员身上，二人动手起来。另一位机舱服务员为此急切地通知机长快出来看看到底这场争执是怎么一回事。

没有球迷，没有闪光灯，没有观众，一个表现关注的迈克尔杰克逊起来把争吵的二人分开。当二人意识到国王流行尝试为他们作调解者，他们就像被校长甚至自己的妈妈打断的学童，羞怯地停下来。那机长到达现场时见到和平已经恢复。

迈克尔让他的保镳跟那男人对调坐。我听不到他们说什么说了约20分钟。之后迈克尔指示保镳助那男人回到自己的坐位上。几分钟的时间那男人就昏睡过去，并睡足了整个航程。迈克尔和他的保镳又再坐在一起，安静地完成他们剩下的飞行时间。

这是对迈克尔杰克逊罕见的惊鸿一瞥。谁会知道他会于30000尺的高空，化身调解者，制止了一场可能爆发的丑陋冲突？