Here's some more on the story. Big surprise- the guy is an unbalanced nut-case.

JetBlue passenger says Steven Slater started fray that led to infamous exit - NYPOST.com

I have a coworker who is A LOT like this guy--even down to whom he choses for companions.

I was riding with him one day a few years ago as a few of us were going out for sushi. He asked me some innocuous question about my Porsche. As I started to answer, he cut me off and started screaming at me that "No one cares about your stupid car, Chris!"

He had asked the question purely so that he had a reason to start yelling at me. He is extremely mentally unbalanced, and I still work with him.

I wonder about that. There have to be disputes every day considering the shear amount of traffic, but not too many FA's pull the chute and slide down with a beer. That's really all that sets this one incident apart from the usual.

Gotta love Sam. There are actually people who talk like that down in Orange County. If you want a good sample of Sam's rhetoric, Google Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

Yes, but this guy, having worked in the biz for so long, must have dealt with an incredible number of idiots over the years. I take one plane round trip per month and I could easily see myself turning into Michael Douglas in Falling Down on almost every one of those flights. I generally hate the unwashed masses anyway. I can't imagine having to put up with them every day as part of my job and having to smile the whole time. I'd not last a day in that job.

I do not fly often but when I do, (especially if it's one of those cut-rate/discount airlines), the FAs are pretty awful. They now have this post-9/11 set of laws that basically criminalizes any argument of any sort that a passenger has with them and they wield that power un-graciously.

That said, the passengers act like asses as well. Flying is really ghetto these days in the U.S.

Thank you for voting!

No – We’re cheering a guy with no self-control, who abused passengers with a profanity laced rant, and endangered people on the ground. Hero? I think not. 71.4% (3,893 votes)

Yes – Who hasn’t at some point thought, “take this job and shove it”? Let him enjoy his 15 minutes. 22.4% (1,220 votes)

Not sure – But please, Mr. Slater, DON’T do a reality show. 5.5% (298 votes)

Other (post a comment) . 0.8% (45 votes)

Total Votes: 5,456

Bite me.
You buy a house near an airport and then complain that the jets are too loud.
You complain that you don't have work, and complain when you get work because the customer is unreasonable and you can't work for people like that.
I know if I was out of work I wouldn't be quite as picky when it came to jobs.
But then again, I've never taken a penny from unemployment.

You pretend to be soo liberal and progressive but I'm wondering if that's just so you can get others to support you. You are openly against working for a big company, I can only summize that's because a big company would require that you actually work.
Yet you sit up there on your high horse pretending to be sooo smug and superior and "enlightened".
I call it like I see it and say how it is. You dance around it and would choke to death on the truth before you'd say something that might not be PC.

How did he endanger people on the ground?

I have a friend who's an airline mechanic, and he said replacing those chutes is a major PITA.

You did however demand severance pay when your parent company was bought by another even though you weren't laid off. You must have felt entitled to that.:rolleyes:

You seemed pretty proud of getting them to bow to your demands when you told that story.

You might want to work on not being such a self righteous, hypocritical tool.

When they deploy those cutes in real emergencies, I'm pretty sure folks on the ground know to stay clear of the doors, as they'll be popping open, maybe off and dropping to thr ground. Imagine if you were walking around underneath a plane, either removing wheel chocks, moving the fuel hose, backing up the luggage trailer, etc. and that chute dropped down on you.

:eek:

Right.

He may have snapped b/c of the recent deaths in his family, or maybe just the accumulated idiot-dealing over the years.

I also would not last long in that job.

Originally Posted by VINMAN View Post
I'm curious as to why no charges were brought against the passenger??

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she didn't do anything that was seen - the chute deployment was hard to avoid

they are doing an investigation, so we'll see if witnesses say she did something to the FA

Very insightful. You're only wrong on one count, the part about working. I work hard when I work and always have.

I'm not the one on Pelican while AT work. ;)

BTW, self employed don't get unemployment benefits. I have never taken a dime either.

Here is a shocker he has a ex-wife!

Steven Slater, JetBlue Flight Attendant, Possibly Drinking Before Flight - ABC News

I used to be an airline mechanic and they are not fun to repack but they are not that bad. Having said that, at a major base like this they will give it to the maintenance shop to repack and just get another one out of stock to hang on the door.

The 20 minutes of paperwork needed to do this will take longer than it takes to refit the new chute to the door.

SammyG2 likes to apologize for the suits and for those who have the power to make rules. I recall his stalwart support for BP early on:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/544110-why-we-not-doing-more-stop-oil-leak-2.html
"BP is getting hammered bigtime. This will hurt that corporation and all those employed by them.
They are being punished and have accepted responsibility. For something they didn't do."

Apologetically,
Sherwood

Now it's turning out that there never was any woman who abused him. That's right, folks. he made the whole thing up. Might explain why they have not identified her, as many here have noted. She does not exist.

Focking flaming nut-case.

I thought Norma was a pilot, not a stewardess.
Maxine Waters maybe?

Dude, it heralds the end of days, Nostradamus totally predicted this.

That arcane little frog did not come right out and say, "Denis agrees with Sammy means game over," but I am pretty sure we only have 2 weeks left, so you best hurry up with Paul's red car before things go all "Planet of the Apes" on us.