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Monday, August 09, 2010

Great Moments in "Take This Job and Shove It!"

I think this guy could have been singing the old Johnny Paycheck song:
A JetBlue flight attendant was arrested Monday following a bizarre incident onboard a flight incoming to John F. Kennedy Airport in which he allegedly inflated the emergency exit slide and rode it down to the tarmac after cursing out passengers over the plane’s intercom.

CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez got a look at the inflatable emergency slide on Monday afternoon. It was to be towed away after aviation sources said JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater deployed it in a fit of rage just after the plane landed around noon.

Sources said Slater got into a heated argument with a passenger aboard Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh International Airport after the plane landed.

Sources said Slater lost his temper when a passenger attempted to pull baggage out of an overhead bin as the plane taxied to the gate. Sources also said Slater told the passenger to sit down until the plane was parked at the gate, but the passenger yelled expletives at Slater and pulled the bag out, hitting the flight attendant.

Aviation sources said Slater got on the plane’s public address system and yelled:

“To the passenger who called me a (expletive), (expletive) you. I’ve been in the business 28 years. I’ve had it. That’s it.”

Sources said Slater then grabbed some beer from the plane, deployed the inflatable slide, and took off in his car parked in an employee lot.
You have to give him points for style.

1 comment:

Mr. Richard said...

I wish unusual things to happen to the passenger who was a total jerk.
It's this kind of people we don't need around. I would hazard a guess he had some type of government job. To have to put up with people who are this rude is beyond reason. This passenger should be banned from future flights on any airline!