For all the people complaining about the photos of Conrad Hilton: I know, and I’m sorry. I think Barron and Conrad Hilton look SO much alike and I’m forced to go with the photo agency IDs, because most of the photos we have of both brothers are from a few years ago. I think both brothers look way different now, but I hope I’ve gotten some photos of Conrad (and not Barron) in this post.

As we discussed yesterday, Conrad Hilton went berserk on an international flight months ago. He was under the influence of alcohol, perhaps some sleeping pills (or so his lawyer claims) and possibly harder drugs. He yelled at and about peasants and threatened passengers. He was arrested when the plane landed and we only found out about it this week, because his last name is Hilton and not al-Jabari. Anyway, the Washington Post had so many more details about Conrad’s behavior on the plane and about his FBI interview when he was taken into custody. Here’s what Conrad admitted to the FBI:

He hadn’t been drinking on the flight, although he had taken a sleeping pill, he said in his defense. And, yeah, he had called people “peasants” on the flight.

“I told all of them I could get all of their jobs taken away in less than thirty seconds,” Hilton said, according to the complaint, as he recalled his interactions with flight attendants.

He credited a man at the back of the plane with stopping him from killing a flight attendant. “If that man wasn’t there, that guy [the flight attendant] would have been ____ killed on that flight. A hundred percent I would have killed him,” Hilton said.

In his interview with the FBI, the agent read Hilton the part of the law that would apply to this particular case. The agent read: “An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who by assaulting or intimidating a flight crew member or –”

Hilton interrupted him. “I did intimidate. But, through defense. He came up to me with his nose.”

[From WaPo]

“Through defense… he came up to me with his nose.” CASE CLOSED!! WaPo has the full 17-page FBI complaint, with information and interviews from the passengers too. They say Conrad went off on “one tirade after another” starting about 30 minutes into the flight. Conrad complained that the flight attendants were ignoring him and “taking the peasants’ side.” He told people that he just broke up with his girlfriend. He told people that he had already been banned from other airlines.

At one point, the passengers apparently told the FBI that they were shocked that the plane wasn’t turned around and landed. The flight was London to LA, and if Conrad’s craziness started 30 minutes into the flight, and let’s be generous and say that an hour into the flight they realized that this kid was crazy and violent, WHY DIDN’T THEY DIVERT THE PLANE? It probably was over water by then, but they could have been diverted to land within an hour. Seriously, if a brown-skinned person had pulled this kind of nonsense, the plane would have been diverted and the charges would be something involving international terrorism.

As for the charges facing Hilton now, he could get 20 years in prison. He’s due back in court in March and he’s out on $100,000 bail. I can’t believe a terrorist is out on that lukewarm bail.

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