Pride

The Philadelphia Daily News reported that 46-year-old David Vassallo boarded a jetliner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a flight to North Carolina. He began talking to the man seated next to him and boasted that he was an undercover federal sky marshal. The man he was talking to was quite interested, and asked him to tell him more about himself. As he left the plane he was arrested by the man seated next to him — who actually was an undercover federal sky marshal. Vassallo, who before this incident was a postal employee, was arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer. He was also found guilty of gross stupidity. But that is what pride does to a person. It’s the curse of human hubris.