Man arrested for wearing too many clothes at an airport

No matter how good a deal you think you're getting with an airline, you'll always run into some hidden costs. Even the most respected companies will make you pay for an in-flight meal, or insist you cough up for insurance, or - most often - add on a fee for checking in your luggage. And, even though air travel is a luxury we should be grateful for, we all feel like we deserve to avoid those costs somehow. So when Ryan Carney Williams (who goes by Ryan Hawaii on Twitter) was told he'd have to fork over an extra couple of bucks because his luggage was over the weight limit, he did what any self-respecting air passenger would do: he wore all his clothes. Williams had been trying to board a flight home from Iceland to England when he was told that his suitcase was over the limit stipulated by British Airways, so he put on eight pairs of pants and 10 shirts in order to reduce the amount of stuff in his checked luggage. Unfortunately, BA didn't see the funny side of it, and refused to let him check in. A video posted on Twitter shows Williams asking a BA employee and two security guards, "why can't I fly?" before insisting that they do not touch him. The guards then threaten to call the police, which Williams welcomes seeing as - in his words - he "hasn't done anything wrong". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/RYAN_HAWAII/status/951088642881138688]] The second video he posted shows him standing in all his clothes while the security guards talk with airport staff in the background. "Come on, guys," he says. "Look at this sh*t. They really made me dress like this." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/RYAN_HAWAII/status/951088947777671168]] After that, police were called to intervene. According to Williams, the officers acted violently, using pepper spray on him and holding him down on the ground. All of this, he claims, they did despite him being "polite". [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/RYAN_HAWAII/status/951175972241526786]] Finally, he was let go - but was still told he could not board his flight. So, he booked with a different airline - EasyJet - in order to fly the following day. His second attempt at flying looked like it was going to go to plan, as he was allowed to check in this time (sans excessive layers of clothing), but then - as if the guy needed any more problems to deal with - he was stopped at the gate. According to him, he was denied entry to the flight because of his behavior on the previous day. So now he was stuck with no money, no luggage, and no way home. Finally, Williams was allowed onto a Norweigan Air flight and managed to get back to England - but the saga was far from over. Since then, he has been threatening to take both British Airways and Easyjet to court for denying him access to a flight he had paid for. But - as we know from the clothing debacle - Williams is a pretty stubborn character. He eventually got a full refund from both airlines and is now safely back home. In future, though, we recommend that Williams - and everyone else - checks the weight restrictions before attempting to board a flight. It just seems like the simpler option.