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The Terrorism of Temperamental Travelers
  http://www.flyana.com/rage.html
This site has some bizarre incident reports as well as some of the supposed psychological causes for air rage. Air rage is supposedly caused by things such as: bad air and ventilation, cramped seats and aisles, excess carry-on baggage due to customers not trusting baggage handlers, smokers going through nicotine deprivation, and our favorite old standby: alcohol. All of these conditions compounded with stress cause ridiculous violence in our friendly skies.
Inexplicably, the unique causes of air rage are mostly eliminated in road rage (no bad air, seats are fine, no baggage, smoke and drink all you like), but it doesn't lessen the effects at all. This Australian study claims that road rage is caused by stress and the recession. But wait a minute… There is a recession in Australia, but the economy is fine in the U.S. That can only mean that the American economy is as gilded and as in debt as I've always suspected. Well, that or American road ragers have one less excuse.
Boston Globe Online/Editorials/The Syndrome Syndrome
Go here and read this. It makes sense. It's right. America is psychoanalyzing itself to death and the problem is really that people don't care enough to keep from losing their temper. Sounds like America to me.
This is a sickly humorous story of some really shady characters having a brawl on a midnight airline flight from New York to Puerto Rico. It makes you realize that violence isn't caused by anything besides violent people.
What We've Learned Today: As the short order cook from "The Muppets Take Manhattan" said, "people is people."