MULTIPLE CABIN ATTENDANT RPT; S80; IAD-DFW. GIRL READING BIBLE WAS VERBALLY ATTACKED; LIFE THREATENED; BY MALE SEAT MATE. ABUSIVE MAN ARRESTED BY DFW POLICE.

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ONE FEMALE PAX WAS READING HER BIBLE. A MALE PAX SEATED NEXT TO HER STARTED ASKING HER QUESTIONS. HE ASKED HER IF SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN. SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE WAS. HE THEN TOLD HER HE HATED ALL CHRISTIANS. HE ALSO STATED TO HER THAT HE HAD KILLED SEVERAL PEOPLE; AND COULD ALSO KILL HER. AFTER 1 1/2 HRS OF VERBAL ABUSE; THE FEMALE PAX COULD NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. A MALE PAX; SEATED BEHIND THE ABUSIVE PAX; RANG THE CALL BUTTON. I RESPONDED. HE TOLD ME THAT THE PAX WAS BOTHERING THIS GIRL. I ASKED HIM IF THERE WAS A PROB. HE SAID 'NO.' THE GIRL THEN TOLD ME SHE COULD NO LONGER SIT NEXT TO THIS MAN. EVERY SEAT WAS FILLED ON THIS ACFT. A MALE PAX SITTING CLOSE BY VOLUNTEERED TO SWITCH SEATS. AFTER SPEAKING TO THE FEMALE PAX; SHE TOLD ME OF THE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR AND THREATS MADE TO HER. I THEN NOTIFIED THE COCKPIT. WE KNEW THIS PAX XX; SEATED IN XB; WAS CONTINUING ON TO ONTARIO. WE DECIDED THAT HE WAS NOT EMOTIONALLY STABLE AND THE VERBAL THREATS WERE ENOUGH TO HAVE AUTHS MEET HIM AT THE GATE IN DFW. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR STATED THAT ON THE S80; THE L SIDE OF THE ACFT IN COACH HAS 2 ABREAST SEATING. THE 17 YR OLD GIRL WAS SITTING IN THE WINDOW SEAT AND THE ABUSIVE MAN WAS SITTING IN THE AISLE SEAT -- PRACTICALLY TRAPPING HER IN HER SEAT. THE ABUSIVE AND THREATENING LANGUAGE HE USED WAS LOUD ENOUGH TO CARRY AT LEAST 4 ROWS AHEAD. THE MAN WHO TRADED SEATS WITH THE GIRL WAS SITTING SEVERAL ROWS UP AND ACROSS THE AISLE; AND HEARD MOST OF THE VERBAL EXCHANGE. THE ABUSIVE MAN STARTED TO REFUSE TO STAND UP SO THE GIRL COULD GET OUT AND TRADE SEATS WITH THE OTHER MAN; WHO WAS VERY BIG AND JUST STARED DOWN THE ABUSIVE MAN. THE ABUSIVE MAN FINALLY STOOD UP. AS FAR AS THE RPTR KNOWS; HE HAD HAD ONLY THE 1 BEER SHE HAD SERVED HIM; SO SHE DOESN'T THINK THAT ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN HIS STRANGE BEHAVIOR. THE POLICE ARRESTED THE MAN ON THE JETBRIDGE. AS THE RPTR WAS DEPLANING; SHE SAW THE POLICE INTERVIEWING THE GIRL. SHE DOESN'T KNOW IF THE MAN WAS BOOKED OR CHARGED. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 478585: ALSO; WHEN HE FIRST BOARDED FLT; SPOKE LARGELY LOUDLY ABOUT KILLING OTHER PAX. WE HAD THE POLICE MEET THE FLT. THE PAX DENIED EVERYTHING.