REM star's confusion after plane arrest
REM's guitarist Peter Buck only "figured" out he was in a British prison cell when he woke up from his drunken stupor and asked a policeman guarding his door.
The Out Of Time musician can't recall the events leading to his arrest for alleged assault on a British Airways flight from Seattle to London on April 21, 2001 - and was baffled to wake up in a "white room".
He says: "The weird thing was, I was sitting bolt upright. You'd think I'd have lied down, but I was sitting up and I opened my eyes and I was in this white room and my whole body was sore.
"I felt awful. I went to the door and looked out and saw policemen and I figured it out at that point."
Buck allegedly threw yoghurt at two air hostesses, up-ended a drinks trolley and tore up a 'yellow card' given to him as a warning he faced arrest if he continued to misbehave.
He had reportedly consumed three bottles of wine and a sleeping pill while travelling in first class.
He continues: "I actually had a friend tell me that, and I said: 'Y'know what man, you don't really wanna end up in the pokey and not know where you are.'
"I'm the only person that doesn't know what happened. As far as I was concerned when I woke up in jail, I went to sleep on the airplane and I don't know where I am and why doesn't the door open?"
