CABIN ATTENDANT RPT; B757; ORD-LAS. INTOXICATED PAX BOARDED; CARRYING BEER BOTTLE AND WAS VERBALLY ABUSIVE. CAPT HAD PAX REMOVED.

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A PAX BOARDED THE ACFT WITH A BOTTLE OF BEER AND APCHED A FIRST CLASS PAX AND SAID 'WHY ARE YOU WITHHOLDING INFO FROM ME?' THE FIRST CLASS PAX LOOKED AT THE MAN AND DID NOT RESPOND. THE MAN REPEATED THE QUESTION AND BEGAN LAUGHING LOUDLY. AS THE MAN APCHED ME; I TOLD HIM I NEEDED TO TAKE HIS DRINK OR HE NEEDED TO GET OFF THE ACFT. HE SAID 'THAT MAN IS WITHHOLDING INFO FROM ME;' AT WHICH POINT I SMELLED ALCOHOL ON HIS BREATH. I REPEATED MY REQUEST; AND HE GAVE ME THE BOTTLE AND PROCEEDED TO HIS SEAT. I NOTIFIED THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT AND THE CAPT THAT THIS MAN WAS OBVIOUSLY INTOXICATED. WE THEN NOTIFIED THE GATE AGENT THAT WE NEEDED SOMEONE REMOVED AND SHE IMMEDIATELY GUESSED WHO HE WAS (WHICH TELLS ME HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO BOARD IN THE FIRST PLACE). I ASKED THE FIRST CLASS PAX IF HE KNEW THE MAN AND HE DID NOT. I PROCEEDED TO THE BACK OF THE ACFT TO FIND WHERE THE MAN WAS SEATED AND TO MONITOR HIM. I LOCATED HIM AND OBSERVED HIM AND HIS COMPANION 'PLAY' FIGHTING; WHICH WAS CAUSING THEM TO BUMP THE SEATS IN FRONT OF THEM (WHICH CONTAINED AN INFANT IN A CAR SEAT) AND DISTURBING THE PAX BEHIND THEM AS WELL. WHEN I PASSED THEIR ROW TO ASK THEM TO CALM DOWN; THEY WERE USING PROFANITY; SO I ASKED THEM TO PLEASE WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE AS WELL. THEY COMPLIED; BUT CONTINUED THEIR ROWDY BEHAVIOR; ONCE I RETURNED TO THE BACK OF THE ACFT. WHEN THE AGENT CAME TO CLOSE THE DOOR; SHE ASKED ME TO POINT HIM OUT; WHICH I DID; AND SHE REMOVED HIM FROM THE FLT. I TOLD HER I THOUGHT THE MAN'S FRIEND WAS JUST AS BAD; BUT NOTHING WAS DONE WITH HIM. THE FLT PROCEEDED AND NUMEROUS PAX COMPLAINED THAT OTHER PAX WERE DRUNK; ROWDY AND WERE USING FOUL LANGUAGE.