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Doctor dragged off flight was convicted of trading drugs for sex (Plot Thickens)
NY Post ^ | April 11, 2017 | Natalie Musumeci

Posted on 04/11/2017 7:48:10 AM PDT by BulletBobCo

The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past.

Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sex favors.

According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; bullies; daviddao; doctor; gook; homosexualagenda; immigration; intimidation; prostitution; smear; ual; united; unitedthugs; vietcongthugs
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To: Alberta's Child

I think the guy was screaming because he was tazed. It also explains the disorientation that seemed by apparently as he was being dragged off.

It look to me like the cop deployed the tazer up close as he was leaning over the passenger.


41 posted on 04/11/2017 8:16:56 AM PDT by dman4384
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To: Junk Silver
It warms my heart to know that after forcing a passenger off an overbooked flight United Airlines still cares enough to engage in opposition research and public smears against said passenger.

It may not have been overbooked, if the part about United giving their employees preference over paying customers is true. That's even worse than overbooking, IMO.

It'd be interesting to know if any of this is covered in the airlines' "customer agreement" boilerplate. Even if it is, it's still damaging and United knows it. This smear attempt may end up hurting United as much as the initial offense.

42 posted on 04/11/2017 8:17:39 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: BulletBobCo

I’ll bet the whole thing made him nostalgic for his time in Vietnam.


43 posted on 04/11/2017 8:20:17 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Alberta's Child

So this Doctor knew that four United employees would need seats and he knew that his name would be randomly selected from the computer. Sounds plausible as a conspiracy on FreeRepublic.


44 posted on 04/11/2017 8:22:06 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: BulletBobCo

He served he court ordered punishment, and repaid his debt to society 9 years ago! Are you allowed to abuse someone because they were once a convicted felon?


45 posted on 04/11/2017 8:23:19 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: BulletBobCo

10 yr old dirt. He could be a murderer, but it doesn’t change the shoddy way he was treated as a customer a few days ago...


46 posted on 04/11/2017 8:23:38 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: marron

In fact, the issue here is that United initially solved the over-booking problem.

Then they ask for 4 more passengers to give up their seats for a flight crew to board because they needed to get to Louisville for a next day work assignment.

That is United’s problem. The doctor wasn’t removed because the flight was over-booked but was removed for a flight crew.

United should have kept upping the money offer until 4 people volunteered. Surely at 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 or $10,000 offer, 4 people would volunteer to give up their seats.


47 posted on 04/11/2017 8:26:05 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: BulletBobCo

Corporate media at work...my guess is the UAL marketing budget just increased by tens of millions.


48 posted on 04/11/2017 8:26:30 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: doug from upland
Being denied boarding? He already boarded.

I'm no expert, but I believe the airlines have very clear policies that they don't have to let you on their plane. But once they let you on, I think their policies get very much less clear. Dragging the guy off AFTER they allowed him on? The airline is standing on ground which is (at least) not rock solid.

49 posted on 04/11/2017 8:27:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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50 posted on 04/11/2017 8:27:44 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: BulletBobCo

51 posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:00 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: BulletBobCo

Then why isn’t he in prison instead of flying on United? Or is that the punishment?


52 posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:04 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Lazamataz

> My only question is why they didn’t summarily execute the man! <

My only question is why weren’t any dogs shot? There must have been one or two being transported that day. And if not on that particular plane, then surely on another.


53 posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:21 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: crz

The flight was not over-booked. It was sold out. A full plane of paying ticketed customers with boarding passes.


54 posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:43 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: House Atreides
Well, the plane could not take off under aviation regulations until they were down to the authorized number of passengers. I guess you have ZERO sympathy for the fellow passengers who would have been held up had not a volunteer stepped up finally?

Kill everyone and there's your solution.

55 posted on 04/11/2017 8:29:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: House Atreides
Well, the plane could not take off under aviation regulations until they were down to the authorized number of passengers. I guess you have ZERO sympathy for the fellow passengers who would have been held up had not a volunteer stepped up finally?

Kill everyone and there's your solution.

56 posted on 04/11/2017 8:29:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: House Atreides

What does his prior conviction have to do with his being assaulted by the Nazi airport security?


57 posted on 04/11/2017 8:29:38 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: jdege

Smear job. This doesn’t have anything to do with what UAL did.


58 posted on 04/11/2017 8:30:14 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Leaning Right
Look, the only solution is just to set the plane on fire and jam all the exits shut.

Burn 'em all alive.

FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES!

59 posted on 04/11/2017 8:30:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Wow. So its worse than I understood. They weren’t bumping him for another paying customer, they were bumping him for the convenience of United employees.


60 posted on 04/11/2017 8:31:36 AM PDT by marron
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