- 2 RIM executives fired for drunken airplane disruption source
- ยป The perils of airborne inebriation: As reported recently, two executives with RIM (the company behind the BlackBerry), George Campbell and Paul Wilson, were en route from Canada to China last week, whereupon they became aggressively drunk. Ultimately, passengers and crew members had to restrain them with plastic handcuffs, and the plane turned around near the North Pole and returned to Canada to offload the troublemakers. Both plead guilty and had to pay over $30,000 apiece, as well as being put on probation for a year. Today, the other shoe dropped; RIM has fired the pair.