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2008's Best Villain Is...

Whether it was because more people acted like idiots or we just heard about more people acting like idiots, 2008 was the year of the bad seatmate. And while there are plenty of candidates among those ranks from which to draw the year's best villain, one trouble-maker went even further.

Former flight attendant Eder Rojas is accused of setting fire to an airplane while in flight, and rather than show up in court to answer charges, he's apparently fled--to Mexico?--in a move that makes him even less sympathetic than we imagined possible. Flight attendants are supposed to be keeping passengers safe not dooming them to a fiery death by sparking paper towels in a regional jet lav!

Rojas is, like all criminal defendants, innocent until proven guilty, so maybe next year we'll be issuing an apology, noting that his only crime was awful camel capping on his MySpace page. Until we hear otherwise, though, he stands as the best villain of '08.

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