A video shared online shows a drunk traveler destructively driving an unoccupied golf cart through an airport, which included driving the electric vehicle onto a moving walkway.
Kevin Sinning, 29, of Wyoming, was charged with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal nuisance and grand larceny in relation to the incident New York's Buffalo Niagara International Airport, the New York Post reports. A video recorded by a witness showed the cart breaking the glass paneling of the moving walkway as airport staff pleaded with Sinning to stop.
Sinning, who was described as being "visibly intoxicated" by Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority officials, freed the cart from one side of the walkway before careening towards the end.
“I think he’s drunk,” one witness was heard saying in the video clip.
Sinning turned around at the end of the concourse and drove the car through an area where several wet floor signs were placed before driving toward the other side of the conveyor belt.
“Oh s**t he’s going down the other one,” a person was heard shouting.
Sinning forced the cart into the opening and drove down the aisle, which resulted in even more destruction as employees continued as employees continued to plead for him to stop.
“You can tell something was not right with him,” said Tom Brennon, who witnessed the incident, via WGRZ. “He was not responding to demands and the people telling him to stop and they had it all. He was totally disregarding the people around him.”
The cart continued to bounce as it drove through the narrow walkway and a haze appeared to fill the building as its left side tires rode the low rail of the machine. Sinning is accused of causing extensive damage to the walkway, glass panels and the cart during the incident, according to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.