Oh wow, I'm going to have to tell Mom about that guy. She'll be very impressed.
This version of the story is helpfully illustrated.
Without condoning the unsafe parts of what he did, I quite like this fellow's style.
A source tells WNBC that Slater was "having a bad day."
Ya think?
I don't understand how the charge of "trespassing" applies.
5: Maybe because he wasn't supposed to be down on the ground outside the terminal?
He wasn't authorized to be out on the tarmac, maybe?
I bet he watched that Louis C.K. clip I posted recently and was like all, "Ah, fuck it. These people are spoiled." That's what I bet.
Steven Slater, 38
"I've been in the business 28 years. I've had it. That's it."
Being forced to toil in the aisles since the age of 10 could definitely lead to something like this.
So did they arrest the guy who wouldn't sit down? Or does he get off scot free? Because he's the only criminal I see in this story. The flight attendant was provoked.
9: Eh, the guy who used to cut my hair retired at 68 after 60 years in the business. And it started out as his second apprenticeship; the first was at 6.
JetBlue: I no longer needed the money!
That said, I'd say everyone involved is lucky the air marshals didn't open fire. The flight attendant should be damn glad he's white, and not terrorist-colored.
I like my coffee terrorist-colored, like my women.
I like my flight attendants like I like my women, going down while holding two beers.
I like it like in comment 16, when Moby's sorry.
Even if no one had opened fire, it's interesting (read: sad) to think about how differently this would be reported in the press if Mr. Slater were a minority. Somehow I think it wouldn't be covered as a "ballsy" flight attendant who is an "inspiration to us all".
Unless he was elderly. I think elderly+minority would warm everyone's heart.
I think he would have got some of the "ballsy inspiration" coverage regardless of race/gender/etc. First, everybody hates airlines and, second, everybody wants to use the slide.
What if he was a Republican, and the passenger was a mythical Welfare Cadillac Queen? I probably wouldn't have applauded.
I can't help but be reminded of how Labs exited Unfogged by opening the emergency hatch, rolling out his cock, and sliding down to safety.
Sliding down one's own cock? That sounds topologically difficult.
The proof is one of the Millennium Prize projects.
I loved that he grabbed a couple beers before he went down the slide.
Relevant: This in-flight pillow flight does not look fun to me.
Sorry to hear about your simple-connectedness, essaer. Dint feel bad, though: the ladies say that doesn't matter so much.
I am surprised that the airport didn't go into warp-spasm-level lockdown after an unauthorized emergency exit and slide deployment and some beer-waving jackass running around on the tarmac.
23: It works kind of like these devices, in which one tubelike structure can forever slide past the other.
25: They always serve crappy beer on planes. I would have gone for tiny bottles of tequila.
I love the charge of Criminal Mischief. If that fails can he be sued for the tort of Naughtness.
The defence would like to enter a plea of 'A big boy done it, and ran away'.
In Britain, it's always the drunken aggressive pax that try to open the emergency exits, usually in flight (because they don't serve drinks before take-off, clearly). Unfortunately for them, cutting up rough on a plane falls under the Air Navigation Order and you get charged with "endangering an aircraft" (by disobeying the captain's authority, presumably)...
31: the tort of Naughtness
Most commonly found after bad dates, "He was just a total zero, and I can prove it."
if Mr. Slater were a minority
I'm pretty sure he's a minority, just not an ethnic minority.
some beer-waving jackass running around on the tarmac
You've obviously never worked in customer service. Otherwise you'd know that this man is a great American hero.
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Finish up masturbating to Ted Stevens.
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He's going to be in one of those Miller Lite "real men of genius" ads real soon.
39: Ted Stevens? I don't think so.
The comparisons to Johnny in Airplane! have begun in earnest. I can make a hat! Or a brooch! Or a pterodactly!
The CIA might let you psee their memos on pterrorists, but only if they pterodact them first.
Writing that refers to the Wings of Poesy is probably written in pterodactylic meter.
38: Could one of the philosophers explain the ethics of masturbating to an ex-Senator on a Schrodinger Mountainside?
Consequentialist arguments win he day. Beware Clifton Clowers.
And the internet is off and running.
Another inspired retirement, this one featuring a white board and some Farmville mockery.
51: See what happens when I take time away from blogs to do actual work? One fucking day and I miss some shit.
46: Pterodactycalitryyyyyy!
Where's AWB been, anyway?