Posted on 08/11/2010 7:09:23 AM PDT by dennisw
More details are emerging today of the in-flight row that led to air steward Steven Slater exiting the plane via the emergency escape slide.
And police have revealed details of the 39-year-old's arrest, when officers interrupted him at his home in bed with his boyfriend.
Slater's lawyer, Howard Turman, revealed that Slater and an as-yet unnamed female passenger were on a collision course from the moment they set eyes on each other.
Mr Turman said today that his client had been antagonised by the female passenger from the outset of the flight.
It all began before JetBlue Flight 1052 even left the ground in Pittsburgh, when two female passengers were involved in an argument about space in the overhead compartments above their seats.
Slater intervened - part of his duties as a flight attendant - and discovered that one of the women had two bags, and one of those bags was too large to be considered carry-on luggage.
Mr Turman admitted that this was a pet hate of his client - Slater had called himself a 'bag Nazi' in a previous posting on an industry website.
Slater told the passenger that she would have to check the bag into the luggage hold of the plane, and that's when the trouble started.
Mr Turman said the passenger 'flipped out' and began swearing at Slater - at one point slamming the overhead bin door down on his head.
The woman’s bag was ultimately checked, and she remained unapologetic.
Once they arrived at JFK, the same passenger agitated Slater further by trying to take her other, smaller bag down before the pilot gave the all-clear for passengers to unfasten their safety belts.
This time, when Slater confronted her, she swore at him and everyone else, demanding to get her checked bag back immediately.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Happy in the limelight: JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater leaves a correctional facility in the Bronx after posting bail, surrounded by reporters
Pause for refreshments: An enraged Slater allegedly took beer from the aircraft's galley before disappearing down an evacuation slide
Two drama queens collide, children traumatized, story at eleven.
Anyone guessing that the nasty passengers who sent this guy over the edge were......AMISH?
Wow, I have never seen an article of this type emphasize the “female-ness” of the passengers so much. I am not excusing the woman’s behavior, but there is a certain type of homosexual who is all too capable of pushing the right buttons and creeping people out simultaneously. (I am thinking of the effete character in “Airplane!” who, when asked “What can you make of this?” He responded, while folding the papers ... “I can make a hat, a broach ...etc.”
Stroopy - new word for me. British I presume.
Hooray for the passenger! One down.
at one point slamming the overhead bin door down on his head.
I'd like to buy him a beer.
Never been on a flight where half the passengers don't do that.
Another fine example of the disciplined, self control one can expect from a flighty Homo. Just what the military needs.
A couple of weeks ago the Homo PFC upset about some nonsensical affair cut loose the worst leak of military information in history putting many lives all over the World at risk, and now this idiot flying off the handle.
Yet the Libs are Hell bent to eliminate DADT.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. They shouldn’t be allowed to run for government office.
People who refuse to comply with the safety instructions of the flight crew should be thrown off the plane, preferably at 10,000 feet.
“at one point slamming the overhead bin door down on his head.”
I’m so jealous.
Nice Opus, Slater!
We need a politicaly correct flow chart so we know which victim class trumps other victim classes. If this flight attendant were a white Christian male, the tone of the article and the sympathy toward him would be decidedly different.
Not mine. He's a common vandal who assuaged his anger with another person at the expense of his employer.
Bravo! Heck of a way to cap off a career. Grab a beer and pull the emergency exit slide and off the plane. ;o)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttVyYTXZRU
Let it snow ...
Homos are nothing but trouble.
Blame the airlines. Besides their charging fees for each piece of checked baggage, they have a consistant record of breaking, destroying and losing baggage.
oh my, he should have immediateley clutched his neck, requested medical assistance, and pressed assault charges.
The marshalls would have been waiting for this entitlement b$tch (the female one) at the gate.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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