Posted on 07/28/2002 12:04:01 PM PDT by USA21
Woman sues Delta Airlines, charges public humiliation
CLEARWATER, Fla. (July 27, 2002 1:01 p.m. EDT) - A woman who says she was pulled off an airplane and asked to take a sex toy out of her luggage after it started vibrating is suing Delta Air Lines, saying she was publicly humiliated.
Renee Koutsouradis, 36, said she was with her husband awaiting takeoff from Dallas in February when her name was called over the loudspeaker.
She said she was met by a Delta security agent who told her something was vibrating in one of her bags. She said she explained it was an adult toy that she and her husband had just bought on a trip to Las Vegas.
She said the agent took her to the bag on the tarmac and made her remove the toy and hold it up, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday. Some passengers on the plane saw everything, and three male Delta employees "began laughing hysterically" and made "obnoxious and sexually harassing comments."
Koutsouradis was allowed to repack and return to her seat.
A spokeswoman for Delta would not comment on the specifics of the lawsuit.
"We have an obligation to protect the safety and security of passengers," said spokeswoman Katie Connell. "If there's anything questionable about a bag, we have a responsibility to investigate."
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, accusing Delta of negligence, intentional infliction of distress and gender discrimination.
Koutsouradis' lawyer, Brad Tobin, said Delta agents should have escorted her to a private area.
"She was pretty horrified by the treatment," he said. "She never contended that Delta doesn't have the right to investigate a security issue. It was their total lack of professionalism."
(snicker)
As for being humilitated, she wasn't humiliated but instead the search showed what she's into. And she surely is making sure everyone will know about her sex toy.
The incident sounds like a set up for a law suit, possibly learned at some seminar on "How to sue and get rich quick." She is the one who should be sued.
She sure is. Her complaint alleges that less than half a dozen people (Delta employees) were publically made aware of her sex toy. There is no indication that any of them knew her personally or even knew her name. For all intents and purposes, she was an anonymous person. So what does she do? She files a highly public lawsuit that guarantees that potentially tens of millions of people will know about her sex toy.
But there's potentially big money to be made and that changes everything.
[T]he agent took her to the bag on the tarmac and made her remove the toy and hold it up...Some passengers on the plane saw everything, and three male Delta employees "began laughing hysterically"...LOL!
"Homeland Security."
She said the agent took her to the bag on the tarmac and made her remove the toy and hold it up, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday. Some passengers on the plane saw everything, and three male Delta employees "began laughing hysterically" and made "obnoxious and sexually harassing comments."
So the Delta search caused a handful of people to learn that she had a sex toy in her bag. However, it was her own actions -- the lawsuit -- and not Delta's search that caused THE ENTIRE WORLD TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
If she is not humiliated because the entire world knows about it, then how humiliated could she have been whan a handful of people learned about it?
Case dismissed!
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