The American son-in-law of Hong Kong's first post-handover leader, Tung Chee-hwa, has been arrested in San Francisco for getting plastered in the city's airport — but wait, that's the OK bit.
Eric McLean Slighton was also found guilty of drunkenly impersonating airport security in order to molest female passengers.
The suspicions of (legitimate) Transport Security Authority officers were aroused when they noticed a man pulling aside two women into the airport's private screening area for a body search, which only female TSA employees are permitted to do.
Slighton, 55, convinced an Asian woman, a foreign national who'd just passed security, that he was a TSA agent, and led her to a screening area for a thorough pat grope-down.
Former Chief Executive Tung, now Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has said that the incident was "unfortunate, and shouldn't have happened." You can say that again.
Tung, widely reviled in Hong Kong for his attempt to push through the authoritarian anti-sedition law Article 23 and for grossly mishandling the 2003 SARS crisis, was forced to resign part-way through his second term after more than half a million locals took to the streets demanding his resignation.
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