Police drag passenger from United Airlines plane

[Shadow]

I'm more useful saving lives than getting 1/12th vote on if some loser goes to jail or not. Obviously, not your case. []'s

[Tekkie?]

He's a psychic pilot...

[Tekkie?]

Not if they are snowflakes.

[Shadow]

Like the Trumpet's promises ? Gone before spring... []'s

[Tekkie?]

I would cut to the chase 10k to start...

[Taxed and Spent]

"oh dear, what shall we do?" Discussion ensues.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Prick ! I'm taking Greyhound

[Diesel]

The hell you will! I bought all the tickets, in advance. [g] I'll take $4750. :-)

[Roger]

?The facts are clear: If you want to travel by air, you must agree to do what you?re told,?Mr. Rowe said. ?If you don?t, you subject yourself to fine, arrest, constraint, forcible removal, and/or a permanent ban from the friendly skies. It?s all there in the fine print.?

?Personally, I support this policy. I support it because I don?t want to fly across the country in a steel tube filled with people who get to decide which rules they will follow and which they will ignore,? the television host continued.

?I?ve been on too many flights with too many angry people to worry about the specific circumstances of their outrage, or the details of why they took it upon themselves to ignore a direct command. A plane is not a democracy, and the main cabin is no place to organize a sit-in. The main cabin is a place to follow orders,? he concluded.

[trader_4]

on?t,

to worry about

That's kind of the perspective I have too. This doc didn't care about the consequences of holding up the plane, what it was doing to the other passengers. It was all about him. He apparently had to take anger management as part of his sentencing for his drug conviction too and that doesn't come out of nowhere.

The airline should have handled it differently too, the cops need to look at what happened and how they possibly could have handled removing him differently. But at least those parties acknowledge they made mistakes. The doc? Nothing.

[Tony944]

On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 4:30:39 AM UTC-4, Roger wrote:

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No Airplane is not Democracy it is own by people who pays for it!!!

***You guys are mixing Cherry and Apples as usual !!!! ***Old man you need little "Education" if you made Reservation you can = not back out it is paid for, unless you have taking Flight Insurance for = which you must need to have good reason to back out! There for you own that = space, for that reserved time. "Only criminal or suspected criminal or abnormal behavior person can be removed from any Public transportation. "NO=E2=80=99 Wouldha, Couldha or = Shouldha"=20 it is not acceptable! United Airlines CEO should be in Jail and pay fines minimum of (1) one Million for they action and the airport Police should be fined too = "Because this dose not have anything to do with Criminology, it is Civil matters = which must be resolved in court of Law, which apparently police decided to = take rules on them self. They action is Gestapo tactics and it is not acceptable... This action of United Air-Liner; it is General practice and our Ethical = in ???? DOJ=20 should step-in and make sure that never happens again. I had reservation = on=20 United airlines from San Francisco to Newark NJ with Handicap spouse in=20 Business class next to each other because of her condition, and paid = for; but after I check in I was split with my spouse and put all the way in back cabin = Couch class where space is limited even for person to fart. No I will not = accept apology from UAL or their CEO it would be to companionate to call them =E2=80=9CFilthy Bastards=E2=80=9D! Dear CEO shove apology to your ???? We do not need apology but action!!! As for you because perhaps getting benefits from UAL go and f*ck = yourself scumbag!

That's kind of the perspective I have too. This doc didn't care about the consequences of holding up the plane, what it was doing to the other passengers. It was all about him. He apparently had to take anger management as part of his sentencing for his drug conviction too and that doesn't come out of nowhere.

The airline should have handled it differently too, the cops need to look at what happened and how they possibly could have handled removing him differently. But at least those parties acknowledge they made mistakes. The doc? Nothing.

[trader_4]

le to worry

Owned by the people who pays for it? UAL isn't a cooperative or hippie comm une. It's a corporation owned by the shareholders.

Try reading the actual ticket terms and conditions that you agree to when you purchase a ticket.

[Roy]

ou

ople to worry

mmune. It's a corporation owned by the shareholders.

I'm sure that nowhere on any ticket it says that they can manhandle you and drag you off the plane with blood poring out of your mouth. You defend those brutes constantly...I wonder if you would had they assault ed you like that Doctor was. ====

[Unquestionably Confused]

[snip]

We can speculate until we're blue in the face and never reach a consensus here. The end of this saga will come when the doctor walks off into the sunset with a buttload of United and the city's money. Just wait for it.

On a lighter note, the classical channel on Sirius played a nice rendition of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" one of my all-time favorites.

SWMBO commented at the end. . . "I guess the "Friendly Skies" aren't so friendly anymore!" United had some very nice commercials featuring that work back in the day. Can you imagine the storm of grief reinstating those commercials would bring them now? ;)

[Ed Pawlowski]

The airline did not touch the doctor. Seems airport security made that decision and carried it out.

There are still some unknown facts on what took place early on to get the ball rolling downhill.

[trader_4]

you

people to worry

commune. It's a corporation owned by the shareholders.

I would not be bloodied because I would have complied with the flight crew. If I was a doc and really had to be with patients the next morning, then I might have stood up, explained that to the other passengers to see if someone else would volunteer. But if that didn't work, I would have left the plane. And for sure when ordered to leave by the police, I would have complied. You know of any instances when police have been called to a plane, ordered a passenger off, they refused and they remained? And if being with patients was so important, his destination was a 4 1/2 hour drive. Using his method, did he get to be with those patients?

[Diesel]

ROFL. Okay.

Are you seriously trying to compare the two?

No it isn't. For reasons already stated, but, I digress.

ROFL. Trader, You don't make for a good usenet troll. If this is the best you can do, you should just give up.

[Diesel]

Usenet isn't twitter or an instant messaging program designed to carry short sentences with emoticons (sp?). I'm surprised to see you actually accusing me of writing 'word walls' here. Has your attention span been reduced that much due to the ehm, various tiny messaging/text systems now in use by the masses?

Sadly, I don't find the back and forth with him all that amusing. He has knowledge I'd like to acquire, if his claims of being an electrical engineer are true. I presently see no reason why they wouldn't be.

Some people do like to learn, and, others obviously, could care less. I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge myself. You may not share the same drive for it as I do?

[Diesel]

[snip]

You just made his point, UM. Even if you were trying to be a wiseass, you actually made his point (as well as mine previously)...Perhaps you should stick to the modern, short sentence, stuff the Millennials prefer to use. They have very short attention spans, too.

[Diesel]

[snip]

I'm still semi new to this particular newsgroup and don't know who the real players vs trolls are just yet, UM. So, You'll have to excuse me if I didn't catch on that Trader_4 is most likely the latter right away. I started to suspect it when he and I began to discuss matters related to IT, though.

The little area I snipped resembles line noise from dialup days with my client. Just so you know. [g]