Chris Russo reveals police were called on him during international travel meltdown: ‘What a disgrace!'
The man known as 'Mad Dog' took a recent vacation to Europe, which included a few fiascos, including one in which he had police called on him while he threw a rage fit in London.
Russo's trip began with a JetBlue flight out of JFK en route to Edinburgh.
'You want to fly to Scranton, P.a.? Jet Blue is for you!' Russo yelled. 'You want to fly to something a little more elaborate like to freakin' Edinburgh? What a disgrace! They kept people on that plane 'til 1:44 in the morning and threw them the hell out of there!'
Russo was headed to Dornach, Scotland, for some father-son golfing.
Russo's son, Tim, had to go from Phoenix to Dallas to London to Inverness — and then drive to Dornach, Switzerland.
Tim's golf clubs got a bit lost in the shuffle.
'It took me two and a half hours to locate the clubs at Heathrow. They didn't know where they were!' Russo ranted. 'My son needs the golf clubs for crying out loud! Couldn't find them. We finally found the golf clubs. I had the ticket stub, I put Timmy on FaceTime. 'Timmy, will you tell the people here that the golf clubs are yours and your father, who paid for them, wants to take them out of the airport so I can get you your clubs the next day?' They wouldn't let me take the clubs out of Heathrow!
3 Chris Russo's trip began with a canceled flight.
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'So Timmy's clubs had to stay at Heathrow overnight and he didn't have his golf clubs on Saturday because British Airways…wouldn't give it to his father!' Russo continued.
'Here's their answer, 'It's protocol, sir.' I'm not interested in protocol! I'm interested in the 5 iron! I am not interested in that! And they called the police on me! I'm a loud American! 'We're gonna get the authorities.' I don't give a crap about authorities, get the golf clubs where they're supposed to be!'
3 Chris Russo's travels continued to get worse.
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3 Chris Russo ranted for more than 10 minutes about his international travel troubles.
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Russo managed to avoid any sort of arrest or detainment, playing his cards right when they arrived.
'Almost,' he said when asked if he got arrested. 'The cops came, I said, 'I'll be okay, calm down.''
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