"After Gibbs made his "professional left" comments,he grabbed 2 beers&slid down the emergency shute"

[Pirate Smile]

@delrayser After Gibbs made his "professional left" comments, he grabbed two beers & slid down the emergency slide outside his window.

24 minutes ago via web


http://twitter.com/delrayser/status/20793557928

:)

Fed-Up Flight Attendant Makes Sliding Exit

By ANDY NEWMAN and RAY RIVERA
Published: August 9, 2010

It has been a long time since flight attendant was a glamorous job title. The hours are long. Passengers with feelings of entitlement bump up against new no-frills policies. Babies scream. Security precautions grate but must be enforced. Airlines demand lightning-quick turnarounds, so attendants herd passengers and collect trash with the grim speed of an Indy pit crew. Everyone, it seems, is in a bad mood.

On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.
After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective.

Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career.
On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.

-snip-
The official offered the following account:

One passenger stood up to retrieve belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission. Mr. Slater instructed the person to remain seated. The passenger defied him. Mr. Slater reached the passenger just as the person was pulling down the luggage, which struck Mr. Slater in the head.

Mr. Slater asked for an apology. The passenger instead cursed at him. Mr. Slater got on the plane’s public-address system and cursed out the passenger for all to hear. Then, after declaring that 20 years in the airline industry was enough, he blurted out, “It’s been great!” He activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and left the world of flight attending behind.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10attendant.html?_r=1&hp

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. LOL!

Very funny! Cheers!

[SunsetDreams]

2. LMAO!

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. ROFL

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[LostinVA]

4. lol

[CreekDog]

5. now that's funny right there!

:rofl:

[Clio the Leo]

6. It would seem that some of our buddies in the press have even thinner skin than I'd imagined.

This is hilarious. If I were Gibbs, I'd walk into the press room with a bunch of pacifiers and hand them out to those consistently forget to bring their own.

[Blue Owl]

7. Th-th-Th-th-Th-th-That's All, Folks!!!

Some days I wish I could leave my job in such a fashion!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. lol

:D

[girl gone mad]

9. Please don't compare Gibbs to this national hero.

If anything, it's the left who should be grabbing beers and sliding down the emergency chute right about now. Enough is enough.

[Dr.Phool]

11. Good idea.

I think I'll do just that. Just as soon as I send this fundraising letter back to the DCCC, with no money, and an invective filled letter.

Then I'll have that (those) beers!

[LoZoccolo]

16. Gibbs is a hero of mine. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

18. nice.

:)

[girl gone mad]

21. Very few share that sentiment.

The emergency-sliding flight attendant bucked a repressive, grinding system in a stylish, artful act of defiance.

Gibbs is just a cog in the system. Not stylish, not artful, not interesting, not defiant and certainly not widely admired.

[annabanana]

10. EEK! lolololololololol

oh very good

[ensho]

12. good on him

nt

[golddigger]

13. Lmao!

[provis99]

14. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!

Give that flight attendant the Medal of Freedom!:rofl:

[n2doc]

15. He should request a jury trial

I would acquit him!

[Pirate Smile]

17. Oh, no doubt. I love that guy.

:)

[Pirate Smile]

19. kick

[grantcart]

20. funny and originial