FLASHBACK:
How The Post told yesterday’s Page 1 story. (
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He’s ready to move on to the land of rum, mon!
The Icelandic boozehound who was duct-taped to his airline seat after a drunken meltdown aboard a Kennedy-bound plane was free to continue on his journey to Jamaica after being discharged from a Queens hospital, a source told The Post yesterday.
Gudmundur Karl Arthorsson, 46, was en route to the Caribbean to meet his fiancée when he got smashed aboard an Icelandair flight and tried to choke and grope several passengers — and at one point yelled that the plane was going down.
Relatives were shocked by his sky-high high jinks.
“Gudmundur likes to drink, but his behavior has the family scratching their heads,” one told The Post. “He isn’t a violent person. This was not normal behavior for him. I hope he is OK.”
Cops picked Arthorsson up at Kennedy Airport after the flight arrived at about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday and took him to Jamaica Hospital.
There he spent the night being treated for alcohol poisoning, sources said.
Boozy Arthorsson, a civil engineer in Trinidad and Tobago, was home in Reykjavik over the holidays visiting family.
Arthorsson, an Icelandic citizen, visits his homeland often to see family.
He earned infamy when he was depicted on the cover of yesterday’s Post duct-taped to his seat, with his arms and feet bound.
Before boarding the plane, he’d stocked up on Grand Marnier, whiskey and schnapps at a duty-free store.
Federal authorities declined to prosecute the case.