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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
News / Ethics Fed-Up Flight Attendant Story Gets Better... and Better!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM
As Paul reported yesterday, a JetBlue flight attendant finally got fed up with being jostled around by rude passengers, cussed one out, and then activated the inflatable slide to escape. YESSS!!! Naturally, a story like this needs further elaboration, so here you go. From Gawker:
The altercation culminated in him announcing over the plane intercom, "To the fucking asshole who told me to fuck off, it's been a good 28 years. I've had it. That's it," then grabbed two beers from the galley, activated the jet's inflatable slide, and bolted off the job. The content of Slater's rant remains in dispute: Some say he called the passenger a "motherfucker" instead of an "asshole," and others dispute who told whom to "fuck off." (And although he seemed to suggest he'd been working as a flight attendant for 28 years, he started working for the airlines 20 years ago.)
Here's where it goes from awesome to... what? AWESOME!!
As soon as the surly steward arrived at his beachfront home in the Rockaways, he jumped into bed with his boyfriend, and was mid-coitus when the police arrived to arrest him for reckless endangerment and trespassing.
Read more here about the attendant who could receive 7 years in prison for being awesome (though I would prefer if he were knighted).
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Trespassing: He isn't allowed on the tarmac.
Of course, those would be null and void if it was an emergency, but swearing, stealing beers, quitting your job, and going home to have sex with your boyfriend, while awesome, probably isn't an emergency. Although maybe the customer was truly awful and he was worried for his safety. (Hey, a Portland Police officer could get away with that defense.)
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and still have time leftover to pay a guy to get a handy from a prostitute.
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