PLT; CABIN ATTENDANT RPTS; S80; LGA-FLL. 30 MIN DELAY ON TAXI; 2 INTOXICATED PAX WERE LOUD; VERBALLY ABUSIVE TO PAX; CABIN ATTENDANT. OTHER PAX SCARED. RETURN GATE. POLICE REMOVED PAX.

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AFTER PUSHBACK IN LGA; WE HAD A 30+ MIN DELAY SEQUENCE FOR TAXI. 2 MALE COACH PAX BECAME ANNOYED WITH THE DELAY AND BECAME LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS. A MALE FLT ATTENDANT TRIED TO POLITELY QUIET THEM -- TO NO AVAIL. ONE OF THE PAX ORDERED THE FLT ATTENDANT TO GO TO THE BACK OF THE ACFT; USING PROFANITY. THE FLT ATTENDANT INFORMED ME OF SIT AND SAID THAT HE BELIEVED THE 2 PAX WERE INTOXICATED. I CALLED FOR SECURITY TO MEET ACFT AND RETURNED TO THE GATE. THE PAX WERE REMOVED AND WERE IN CUSTODY OF THE PORT POLICE. I DEBRIEFED THE POLICE AND LCL AIRLINE OFFICIALS. ONE OF THE OFFENDERS YELLED TO THE REMAINING PAX THAT THE R ENG WAS DEFECTIVE AND THE ACFT WAS UNSAFE TO FLY. WE HAD THE ACFT REFUELED AND DEPARTED FOR FLL; MINUS THE 2 INTOXICATED PAX. BEFORE WE LEFT; THE POLICE DISCOVERED THE TWO HAD THEIR OWN BOTTLE OF SCOTCH. ON INITIAL BOARDING; I BOARDED ACFT RIGHT BEHIND THESE 2 PAX AND DID NOT NOTICE A PROB. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 472554: OTHER PAX CAME TO THE BACK BECAUSE THEY WERE FEARFUL OF THIS PERSON.