I thought Dr. Dao behaved shamefully and that he threw a tantrum like a child. He should have had more dignity than he displayed.
Initially I was led to believe that United had the legal right to deplane him, but someone pointed out that the contract only stipulates this for an "overbooked" condition, and not because they wanted to bump him for airline employees who aren't ticket holders.
It is a legal technicality, but I recognize the law runs on those nowadays.
I think United's settlement has more to do with the bad publicity they received than it does with any legal liability.
I detest everything about this whole sorry mess. I detest that they tried to evict a legitimate passenger, I detest the fact he screamed like a little girl and threw a tantrum, I detest that he immediately screamed "racism" and I detest that United felt they had to settle because of "trial on the public airwaves."
This whole thing is a sorry representation of modern life. Why do we no longer have people with common sense and dignity?
“This whole thing is a sorry representation of modern life. Why do we no longer have people with common sense and dignity?”
Last night on Tucker Carlson, he had Duff McDonald who has written a book about the shamefully lacking of these traits in the Harvard MBAs that have been turned out for the last half-century.
Take a look: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5409933375001/?#sp=show-clips
I used to work for a company that had a penchant for hiring Harvard MBAs (we called them HUMBAS). They were as vicious and devoid of a modicum of both common sense and dignity as any group of human beings on the planet. BTW, that company, which was multibillion dollar in it’s heyday, is gone today thanks in no small measure to the HUMBAS they hired.
Why do we no longer have people with common sense and dignity?
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You’re looking at it backwards. Everyone else on the plane, including those who deplaned as requested, demonstrated their common sense and dignity. The only passenger who didn’t was the doctor. He decided to trigger an altercation so he could sue the airline.