It’s a story you’ve seen on television but Oliver Minatel, the pro soccer player for the Ottawa Fury, does not seem to have been in any serious danger from the demented person who wanted to strangle him with his earphone cord. Still, it must have been shocking. The man blithered “You’re all here to kill me.” Earlier, just before the Air Canada Jazz flight to Atlanta left Pearson yesterday this man was pulled aside and questioned. We don’t know what that was about but security sensed something. Minatel, 22. said he was sleeping when a man jumped on him and choked him with a headphone cord. “He just jumped on me,” Minatel told CNN reporter Paula Newton, who was also on the plane and recorded the aftermath of the incident. During her interview with Minatel, other passengers could be seen in the background repeatedly telling the man to remain seated and put his seat belt on.
