Flight Attendant Quits And Exits Plane Via Emergency Slide 24
You may question his actions, but you can't say that 38-year-old flight attendant Steven Slater doesn't know how to quit in style. After a passenger refused to apologize for hitting him in the head with either a bag or the overhead compartment, Slater got on the the loudspeaker and told those aboard to "go f*** themselves." He the grabbed a couple beers from the drink cart, activated the emergency chute, and slid away into unemployment.
He lived the dream. (Score:2, Funny)
That is all.
What was the crime? (Score:2)
I'm not sure I understand what the mischief and reckless endangerment is here. The plane was on the ground, so using the emergency chute isn't likely to hurt anyone, is it? I guess I am just missing the connection between "Quits Rudely" and "Potentially 7 years of prison".
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More likely it stems from prosecutors anxious not to let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way of their career hideously inflating the charges for any crime to the point that even innocent defendants prefer a plea agreement over rolling the dice at a trial they can't afford.
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But, But, I Thought It Was Her Fault? (Score:2)
Mystified (Score:2)
Am I honestly the only one who is mystified by the apparent meteoric (and heroic) rise of this hot-headed schmuck?
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I would hope you are the only one mystified by it.
The reason for the stew's popularity? He did what so many of us would like to do when the rude people win. Tell them off and get the last word.
As a frequent traveler, I won't condemn him/ however, I will say that his actions, although excessive and illegal, are indicative of a reaction to the change in attitude toward others I have seen while traveling. Most, but not all, passengers on flights ignore the stews all flight except when they want something fr
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You can't control what other people do. But you are in control of your own reactions.
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"Go back"? You know, dismissing fantasies about the past would help a lot, too...
7 years? (Score:1)
He could face 7 years in jail? That's nice. I'm pretty sure some people manage to get less for murder. Maybe that's what he should have done?
What he did was pretty awesome but... (Score:2)
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Maybe the flight attendant felt he was being assaulted.. his training took over and he fled the fight via the fastest means availble. *cough* and grabbed a beer for the pain or something *cough*
It does suck that modern society protects assholes though. Wouldn't the guy who hit the attendant be partially responsible for this?
Motivation (Score:1)
7 years? (Score:3, Insightful)
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For an action that could easily have killed someone on the ground? Seems entirely reasonable to me.
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Are you kidding me?
Should someone spend 10% of their life in prison for doing a "rolling stop" at a red light?
Should a tractor-trailer driver who goes 9mph over the speed limit spend 22,000 consecutive days in a jail cell?
Should someone who sets off a string of Black Cats on a dry 4th of July Day get 7 years of daily life with murderers and rapists and, even worse, crooked hedge fund managers?
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Have you heard of at thing called shades of gray? You can take anything to an extreme and use it to attack something, but that doesn't make you right. Do you believe there's no difference between blowing through a stop sign at 100 mph and rolling through it at 5 mph? Do you honestly believe it's possible to draw some line where it suddenly becomes okay? It's safe at 5mph suddenly becomes dangerous at 6mph?
The fact is, this idiot chose to be "dramatic" and deploy a slide which deploys with great force and
I wonder what brand (Score:2)