Ramya Nagesh

So you might think, for example, I want to cook something, so I'm going to cook it, and you do it.

I want to get to this place, so I'll drive to this place.

So it's a much more simple thought.

He was traveling from the U.S.

to London to take part in a concert on a British Airways flight.

And he took an Ambien sleeping pill at the start of the flight.

He did drink a lot of wine.

Apparently he was topped up 15 times or so.

And then during the flight, he starts attacking staff.

So it started off a little almost comically.

He had a pot of yogurt and a spoon in one hand, and he was sort of throwing them around and people got sprayed with yogurt.

But then he tried to open an exit door in the plane and wrestled with a member of the cabin crew who was stopping him.

The captain of the flight gave him a yellow card, which was something British Airways had announced.

incorporated for people who were creating disturbances so it's effectively saying this is your last warning he ripped it up in the captain's face and said who the hell are you i'm a member of rem blah blah blah he upended a serving trolley and so he really caused chaos so when he they landed in the uk he was taken to trial for various offenses assault criminal damage and so on

And he said he was sleepwalking and he was in a state of non-insane automatism.

And interestingly, experts testified that Ambien could actually produce these side effects.

And the fact is that when he took that sleeping tablet, he could not have reasonably foreseen that it would produce those side effects, that it would make him violent in his sleep.

Most people know that if you drink a lot, it's reasonably foreseeable that you could become aggressive.

It's not in the same way reasonably foreseeable that if you drink a lot and go to sleep, you could sleepwalk and commit a violent act.

In relation to Ambien, it follows the same path.