Alaska Airlines doesn't give in to purr-pressure -- that's what Alexandra Compton found out on a recent flight home for the holidays ... and she told TMZ it might be because they're dog people.
Alexandra -- a 35-year-old bartender now known as '2 Cat Karen' -- got into a standoff with airline staff in Las Vegas when they refused to let her board with her 2 cats in the same carrier.
NEW: Woman has meltdown after Alaska Airlines refused to let her cram her two cats under her plane seat.
The woman, identified as Alexandra Compton, was flying from Portland and accused the staff of ruining Christmas.
She tells TMZ ... on December 21 she was travelling from Vegas to Portland to go back home for the holidays on a flight with her cats Phoenix and Blaze. According to Alexandra, the airline caused a fuss over the cats being in the same carrier, but she's travelled with Alaska Airlines in the same carrier many times before.
"A man in charge came down from an office and didn’t even look at the cats," Alexandra told us. "He made the decision I needed to book another seat and get another carrier or I couldn’t fly with them. Because he didn’t look at the cats, it made me think he was a dog person. It was giving he had a golden retriever at home."
A former Rhode Island mayoral candidate wasn't very diplomatic toward a cop during a recent traffic stop — calling the officer a "d--k" while dropping the ol', "Do you know who I am?" line.
It all started on December 18 ... Maria Bucci, the current chair of the Cranston Democratic City Committee, was pulled over by a police officer in East Greenwich, RI, and the situation quickly turned ugly.
Making matters worse, the officer switched on his bodycam, capturing every moment of Bucci's terrible attitude. As you can see, Bucci was difficult right from the start, making faces at the officer as he tells her she smells like booze and was driving erratically.
Bucci then told the cop to stop embarrassing her and her friend, who was with her. After the cop says he's just doing his job, Bucci did her, "Do you know who I am" routine.
The cop says he doesn't know her, and then warns her not to name drop because it's not going to work with him.
One glam tourist is counting her lucky stars after a massive wave suddenly swept her off her butt at a popular coastal hotspot ... and the terrifying moment was caught on camera!
Check out the early-December scare -- the woman visiting from China was perched on a cliff opening at Egypt’s Matrouh Eye when a monster wave came barreling in and blasted her straight into the Mediterranean.
In the final split second, you see her head pop back up in the backwash ... she later told reporters she somehow made it to shore by clinging to a safety rope at the site.
DK Metcalf might have nerves of steel ... but, a Detroit Lions fan got on his last one -- and video shows him taking a swing at the guy!
The wild moment went down late in the second quarter of the Lions matchup against DK's Pittsburgh Steelers ... with the CBS broadcast first showing a tense convo between the veteran wide receiver and a DET fan in a bright blue wig.
What started out as alleged shoplifting turned into attempted murder when an Ohio man pulled a gun on a police officer inside a Walmart Thursday ... and the whole thing was caught on tape.
Watch this insane video ... 21-year-old Shane Newman appears anxious, chewing on his gloved fingers while sitting inside Walmart's loss prevention office around 1:40 PM. You can see him sneakily turn his back to the camera, and when he turns back around ... he produces a gun.
While aiming the weapon at an officer off-camera, you can hear what appears to be the click of Newman pulling the trigger, but the gun never goes off.
Horrifying new video shows the precise moment a plane carrying NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family crashed and exploded in flames Thursday, killing everyone on board.
Security footage captured the corporate jet turning into a ball of fire as it crash-landed near a runway at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina. The aircraft was scheduled to fly to Florida, but not long after takeoff, it turned back to the airport before crashing.
As you can see from the clip, the plane was reduced to what looks like a burning oil slick with black smoke rising into the sky. All seven people on the plane died, including Biffle, his wife, Cristina and two children -- Emma, 14, and Ryder, 5.
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ICE’s aggressive immigration raids are still disrupting cities across the country ... and shocking new video shows just how violent agents are getting ... with agents seen dragging a pregnant woman in the snow and slush-covered street.
As you can see, the woman was pinned down, slapped in handcuffs, and dragged by her arm by an ICE agent in South Minneapolis Monday as a crowd gathers to confront the agents in a heated scene -- as angry neighbors repeatedly shouted that woman is expecting.
The panicked agents could clearly hear the desperate pleas, but chose to ignore them ... because beyond the disturbing footage of her being dragged, another clip shows another ICE agent kneeling on the woman as she lay on the ground.
A singer narrowly avoided serious injury during a show in Peru ... collapsing to the ground because of an electric shock he suffered while grabbing the mic.
Carlos Suarez and his rock band Mi Mejor Amigo Scott were playing in Lima over the weekend when Suarez stepped up to start a song and wrapped his right hand around the equipment ... before letting out a primal scream and falling backward.
A couple people onstage rushed to unplug the equipment ... and, once unplugged, others tended to Suarez, according to local outlet Buenos Días Perú.
A mountainside collapsed in a mudslide on top of motorists and two men working on the roadside in Vietnam, killing at least three people ... and the tragic natural disaster was caught on video.
Dashcam footage of Sunday's devastating avalanche shows two workers in brightly colored traffic safety vests painting new lines on the busy two-lane roadway as the earth above them suddenly comes crashing down and sweeps across the pavement.
The mudslide buries them alive as it surges into the road, enveloping trucks, sedans and two motorcycles passing through.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good fight! Insane video from a San Francisco restaurant shows a rowdy, belligerent patron going down hard on the sidewalk following an extended altercation with customers and staff.
Watch the video posted yesterday ... there's so much to cover. First, we see a young woman -- slurring her words and cursing loudly -- upset with a manager for apparently cutting her off from the bar. With her camera phone out, the woman appears to be planning to catch the staff "harassing" her. But while she's filming them, the rest of the customers are filming her.
NEW: Drunk female customer attacks bar staff outside trendy San Francisco restaurant co-owned by celebrity chef Joey Altman
The unidentified couple had been cut off for being drunk and rude
Bartender Miguel Marchese said they were verbally abrasive and difficult with staff… pic.twitter.com/peqhRbKjqY
The staff basically ignore her tirade, so the woman picks a fight with a fellow customer, violently swiping at the innocent bystander who had been recording the whole thing. The woman's date -- also visibly inebriated -- then restrains her as she swings wildly at the customer.
Then, as the woman walks away from the assault she just committed, a staffer appears to expertly take the obnoxious young woman to the ground with a swift trip. Somebody's taken a judo class or two!
Wiiiild scene in Thailand ... a pro soccer player attacked a retired U.S. cop and a bar employee after he allegedly tried to skip out on his tab, and boy was he handed some instant karma!
The chaos was caught on video ... showing Osvaldo Dos Santos Neto leaving the Tinder Bar in Udon Thani early Monday morning.
All appeared normal until the bar crew followed Neto out, accusing him of walking out on his 5,100-baht bill (about $162 USD), and that's where things got wild.
Politics 101: When the talking stops working, the insults start flying ... and sometimes the fists do too ... case in point, this Mexico City Congress session that went completely off the rails Monday!
You’ve gotta see this video -- the chamber podium turned into a full-on WWE ring as female lawmakers started shoving each other, one delivering a back-of-the-head slap ... and got repaid with a savage hair yank.
That sparked a full chain reaction -- the women in the back jumped in, swinging and shoving, turning the whole chamber into pure chaos ... while one guy stuck in the middle, cracking an awkward smile.
A woman in the Philippines went viral after she showed off some butt-wigglin' moves on a basketball hoop ... before it came crashing down and slammed her to the pavement.
Check out the video -- the woman climbs up to the hoop as a crowd cheers her on. She makes her way onto the rim, where she starts twerkin' for her fans below ... but her fun quickly turns into disaster when the pole breaks and the entire structure comes tumbling down.
The woman goes down with it, landing flat on her back, knocking the wind out of her.
A shocking new video has emerged from the Bondi Beach terror attack, and it shows a jaw-dropping moment when a bystander calmly disarms one of the gunmen in the middle of the chaos.
🇦🇺‼️ Insane footage as an Australian citizen tackles one gunman seizing his gun and pointing it right back at him.
In the clip, a man walks straight up to one of the gunmen, showing zero hesitation. The bystander reaches down, pulls the weapon right out of the shooter's hand, and then -- in a wild twist -- points the gun back at the suspect.
Ring the opening jingle bells ... because this holiday season brought out the worst in a group of Nantucket shoppers -- leading to a brawl in the streets!
Video taken over the weekend is now circulating online ... and it kicks off with a group of people in an argument outside the Nantucket Christmas Stroll, an annual outdoor market complete with a tree lighting and visit from Saint Nick himself.
A brawl broke out on Federal Street during the 51st Nantucket Christmas Stroll, according to video obtained by the Current. Police responded and are investigating, but no arrests have been made. Witnesses said that those involved declined to press charges on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/m3965VTHQ5
After some pushing, pulling, and arguing, all hell breaks loose when someone appears to throw a punch -- and another guy jumps on his back to stop him.
A Florida man is getting the help he desperately needs ... after a video of him getting hit by a car while running through traffic went viral.
As you can see in the video ... the unidentified man is hit by a car as he jogs through a busy intersection ... but he pops right back up and keeps trotting.
Miami police tell TMZ ... the incident happened Monday -- and the unidentified man was placed under Florida's Baker Act, an involuntary temporary mental health hold.
