You already know that phrase “it’s important to be very courageous or very silly to ____”? For those who fill the clean in with “choose a combat with Mike Tyson” you may take away the entire courageous half, it’s simply very silly. On Thursday video of Tyson punching a passenger on an airplane went viral, and naturally this was by no means going to be a traditional story.
TMZ obtained footage of Tyson punching a fellow passenger, which they declare occurred after Tyson grew to become irritated at man sitting behind him throughout a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Florida. There have been unsubstantiated claims by Tyson that the person threw a water bottle at him, precipitating the assault.
There are numerous questions left unanswered. Why did this cordial assembly begin with a selfie and finish with a beatdown? What prompted Iron Mike to snap? Why is Mike Tyson flying JetBlue within the first place? And eventually, what sort of dude is prepared to push Mike Tyson like that?
It seems he is perhaps a felony? No less than, that’s what the Every day Mail is reporting, who dug into the background of Melvin George Townsend III, confirmed as the person on the receiving finish of Tyson’s punches. Townsend III was launched from jail in 2020 after serving 15 months for fraud, and has a historical past of housebreaking, drug possession, and trafficking of stolen items.
Not that it’s okay to beat somebody up as a result of they occur to be an ex-con, but it surely’s simply one other wrinkle in an already actually bizarre story. There was no manner Tyson was going to get right into a combat with simply an extraordinary, boring human — after all it needed to be somebody with a shadowy previous, filled with drama. I feel that’s what occurs while you’ve owned a tiger as a pet, your life is simply destined to be bizarre from then on.
