{"id":37759,"date":"2025-09-23T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37759\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:17:08","slug":"man-strips-naked-claims-to-be-lucifer-while-flight-boards-to-wellington-at-auckland-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/37759\/","title":{"rendered":"Man strips naked, claims to be Lucifer while flight boards to Wellington at Auckland Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was restrained by a passenger on another flight, who held him down on a chair near the gate before police arrived within five minutes, they told the Herald. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was holding him down on the chair, and then another one [member of the public] was trying to talk him out of doing what he was doing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Security personnel were also present, the witness said. <\/p>\n

The man was handcuffed by police, who took him to the bathrooms, they said.<\/p>\n

The witness, who did not wish to be named, said the man did not appear to be well.<\/p>\n

About half of the passengers were already on the Air New Zealand flight, which was destined for Wellington, they said. <\/p>\n

The incident was over quickly and did not cause much of a delay, the witness said. <\/p>\n

Police told the Herald a 33-year-old man has been taken into custody after an incident of offensive behaviour at Auckland Airport.<\/p>\n

Auckland Airport said it can confirm police and airport security attended an incident at the domestic terminal yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no impact to arriving or departing flights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Air New Zealand did not wish to comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was restrained by a passenger on another flight, who held him down on a chair near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34704,2681,1975,51,5195,34705,34702,10712,2562,70,42,34701,5158,34700,43,34703,34699,61,40,38,41,39,13920,52,6123],"class_list":["post-37759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airbridge","tag-airport","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-be","tag-boarding","tag-boards","tag-claiming","tag-claims","tag-flight","tag-headlines","tag-lucifer","tag-man","tag-naked","tag-news","tag-stripped","tag-strips","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tried","tag-wellington","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}