Men who pay top dollar for good-quality hair transplants do so because they can be undetectable after the healing is over. They’re certainly better than most toupees on the market from a realism standpoint.
But hair transplants are a surgical procedure, and the head does not look what you would call “fetching” directly after the surgery. But one man’s healing head caused him more than embarrassment after the crew on an American Airlines flight asked him to leave because they were concerned about his head covered in bloody bandages.
Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier, 27 years old, was eventually arrested after refusing to leave the plane along with his traveling companion, Yusleydis Blanca Loyola, 32 years old. The flight was to take off from Miami International Airport when the crew noticed him bleeding from the head and became concerned for his health, but also for the health of other passengers.
Miami-Dade Police said the flight crew asked Hernandez-Garnier to at least change the dressing and clean up the blood, but the passenger said he did not have any extra bandages. His traveling partner Loyola then allegedly got aggressive, stating that if the pair could not fly, then “no one else can, either.”
The traveling pair seemed unusually confident and entitled, initially refusing to leave on the command of uniformed police officers. Cops warned them that they’d be leaving the flight in handcuffs before it took off if they did not cooperate, and that’s exactly what happened. Police also said they briefly resisted officers trying to place cuffs on them.
Booking photos of the man give some sense of the alarm his appearance created. With most of the bandages on his head removed, Hernandez-Garnier’s scalp is bloody and gives an unfortunate “Frankenstein’s monster” appearance.
The first stop after the arrest was a medical center to make sure the bleeding wasn’t severe, but the pair’s final destination turned out to be the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
It was not only the obstinate couple whose trip was ruined; all the other passengers had to get off the plane too, causing massive inconvenience and a delay.
Both would-be travelers have been charged with trespassing and resisting arrest.
