Judge Reinhold Arrested After Shirtless Airport Tirade

Judge Reinhold arrested after refusing airport security search. https://t.co/tdYThFvAj6 pic.twitter.com/jHPofsFeea

— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) December 9, 2016

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HuffPo – Actor Judge Reinhold was arrested Thursday after refusing to submit to a security check at Dallas Love Field, police said.

Police officers led the 59-year-old Reinhold, who appeared in “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” and the “Beverly Hills Cop” movies, from the airport and took him to a detention center, where they charged him with disorderly conduct. …

Reinhold took off his shirt and used explicit language during the incident.

Transportation Security Administration agents had asked Reinhold to submit to a pat-down, apparently setting off the actor, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was offered a private room and declined.

Reinhold was allegedly “antagonistic” to police officers when they arrived and they arrested him, the paper said.

I consider myself to be just about as pro-police as they come. Within certain, reasonable parameters, I respect their authoritah, and that extends to TSA. My philosophy is that if I’m going to be sealed up in a pressurized aluminum tube 30,000 feet in the air and want to be safe (spoiler: I do), check everybody. Search me. Search my wife. Search those 20-something, dark-haired bearded gentlemen over there. Search the 90-year-old British lady. Search us top to bottom. I’ve inadvertently had a Swiss Army knife in my carry-on. And as they chucked it out, I had no issues because no one should have one on board. Not me, not Abdur and Raheem. Not Mrs. Nesbit. No one. I’m an equal opportunity frisker.

That said, I’m a frigging writer, not Judge Reinhold. If anyone should be above suspicion, it should be Hollywood actors. I mean, how many truly threatening people are slipping through the cracks while TSA is wasting their time strip-searching the man who gave the world so many laughs in “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”? If they’re  going to pat-frisk Brad Hamilton, who’s next? Mike Damone? Rat Ratner? This was just an abuse of power and I’m glad Reinhold called them on it.

I can only hope that when he berated the cops, Reinhold used my favorite expression ever. The “Don’t you know who I am?” thing. Or in his case, “Don’t you know that I was the male part of the greatest celebrity nude scene in the history of major motion pictures?” If that doesn’t let you breeze past security, nothing will. (Clip SFW)