Steven Slater, JetBlue Flt Attendant, Jumps Down Emergency Chute

[TheDebbieDee]

I didn't see this story mentioned on DU yet and it reads like quite a hoot! Enjoy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/steven-slater-jet-blue-fl_n_676139.html

[BurtWorm]

1. Sounds like the Larry David of the flight attendant world.

[JoDog]

2. While he should have thought it through

a little more, I gotta admit, the man has style!

[AngryAmish]

3. I love this guy.

I like the part where he gets on the mic and cusses out the entire plane.

[av8rdave]

4. Not exactly what he was trained for, but I'm surprised it's taken this long for this to happen

I see flight attendants get verbally abused often. They get blamed for lousy airline policy, lousy food, delays, overcrowding...none of which is their fault. To the 5% idiot factor among passengers, they're seen as the face of everything wrong. I can't imaging how often they have to wonder why they subject themselves to it all.

According to the clip on Huffpost, he's caring for a terminally ill mother. The sad part of this story is that what happens now won't make his life or his mother's life any easier.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. I wouldn't last a single trip as a flight attendant.

I just know I'd be standing at the front of the plane hollering at everybody over the PA, telling them to sit down RIGHT THE FUCK NOW and buckle your goddamn seat belts and DO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD TO ME or we are going to taxi back to the gate and all you buttholes can just GET OFF THE DAMN PLANE. And then I'd just throw them their little bags of peanuts and those really good gingersnap cookies (that I'd rather eat myself) like I was a vendor at a baseball game. And then I'd get fired without ever even having to blow the slide.

[av8rdave]

13. You and me both!

I wouldn't last a second in that job!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. hilariously Delrayed already

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x403283

[annabanana]

6. He dropped his ID in the parking lot and drove off.

You gotta give the guy props for style.

[joeybee12]

7. I voted him a hero...on the MSNBC poll...guy sounds like he has a lot

of stress in his life right now...maybe this will highlight the shitty working conditions most employers think is par for the course...especially airlines.

[david13]

8. I don't know if the airlines are responsible for this. I think it's the

general obnoxious american on the plane, who thinks he doesn't have to listen to the flight crew. It's kind of like the abusive shopper who chews out the walmart employee because of the corporate situation, for which the clerk has no responsibility.
I think they should arrest the stupid obnoxious passenger.
This flight attendant endangered no one.
I can't say he's a 'hero' as I think far fewer are than some people think. And he didn't handle it well.
But I say free him and arrest the passenger.
dc

[TheDebbieDee]

9. He was hit on the head just prior to his outburst! He was suffering from

impaired judgement. An INCOMPETENT criminal attorney should be able to get Mr. Slater off!

[cwydro]

10. I read this yesterday and heard it on the Today Show today

and god I wish I had an emergency chute myself...

[Curmudgeoness]

12. Does anyone not love this guy (who isn't an airline exec)?

We all wish we had an emergency chute---and that is what we love about him.

[cwydro]

14. I totally love he grabbed two beers first...

not a bunch of liquor bottles, just two beers and down the chute!

Love it!