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Mixed thoughts. While this guy may have gotten a raw deal, there is legal recourse available in cases like this, the video that went viral only shows this him being forcefully dragged off the plane by security, but NOT the events leading up to this situation. A lot like the Michael Brown and other apparent cases of excessive force and police brutality.
1 posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:43 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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If a federal law enforcement officer asks me to exit a plane, no matter how royally pissed off I am, I’m going to do it and then seek other means of legal reimbursement. True story.

I thought they were Chicago Airport Security thugs, not Feds, like TSA or FBI..................

2 posted on 04/13/2017 9:39:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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The thing they could have done is kept upping the price until someone took the deal.


3 posted on 04/13/2017 9:40:07 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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“Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.”


4 posted on 04/13/2017 9:40:48 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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Can’t wait until HyperLoop travel will make air travel obsolete. Flying anywhere is miserable these days. Better to go by auto if you can drive it in less than 3 hrs. The stupid clods at United could have chartered a jet for those four late arriving crew members and saved millions for the company. This is just common sense, which the cheap skates in charge should have considered when they offered such a measly sum to deplane.


5 posted on 04/13/2017 9:42:43 AM PDT by txrefugee
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If United wanted to send 4 employees to another city for another flight, they should have handled the situation before allowing passengers to board.

The passenger that was pulled off the plane suffered a concussion, broken nose and he lost two teeth according to a FOX news report.

6 posted on 04/13/2017 9:43:34 AM PDT by scripter
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This whole incident, including the behavior of both the airline and the passenger, reinforces my dislike of flying.

With inconsiderate TSA perverts, inconsiderate crews, and inconsiderate passengers, if there is any reasonable alternative. I don’t fly.


7 posted on 04/13/2017 9:44:00 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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Did screaming girly-’doctor’ actually get back onto the flight?


8 posted on 04/13/2017 9:44:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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While this guy may have gotten a raw deal, there is legal recourse available in cases like this, the video that went viral only shows this him being forcefully dragged off the plane by security, but NOT the events leading up to this situation. A lot like the Michael Brown and other apparent cases of excessive force and police brutality.

Let's see. Michael Brown robbed a store, assaulted a cop and tried to steal his gun, and then charged him, and was a huge dude. This passenger was reacting to United violating the law regarding removing a passenger already boarded and in his seat, did not offer any kind of physical resistance, and probably didn't weigh more than 130 pounds.

Yeah, I can see the similarities. /sarcasm

9 posted on 04/13/2017 9:44:38 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Needs to never happen again. Period.

Require the airlines to keep raising the offer until someone takes it, if that’s ten grand, then they shouldn’t have overbooked.

Spare me the “They’re just people doing a job” BS, that’s no excuse.

There is a market based solution to this.

For me- once you’ve taken my money you *ARE* going to fulfill your end of the contract OR I will make your existence as miserable as it deserves to be, which is going to involve whatever combination of lawyers, social media and physical action I think most appropriate.

If you don’t have the seat, don’t sell it, PERIOD. Anything else is fraud.


10 posted on 04/13/2017 9:44:49 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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So how did he get back on the plane? Wasn’t he in the custody of the 3 aviation security officers?


13 posted on 04/13/2017 9:46:37 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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No, sorry lady, your husband can get a new career.


15 posted on 04/13/2017 9:46:42 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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United has been a horrible, awful airline for a long time. I’m just very glad that I have been airline free since 2012. I hope it is forever. Much of the problem is government, but not all. United tries very hard to be a bad airline.


17 posted on 04/13/2017 9:48:35 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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And then there’s the “Contract of Carriaige” the airlines use. Most are the size of small novels.

My immediate question is how do you get informed consent on a 35-40,000 word contract. . . .


18 posted on 04/13/2017 9:49:12 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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Yes, and the Jews in 1939 didn't the read the fine print either.

This airline shill is trying to polish an unconstitutional turd and make us think its a diamond. Assaulting folks because they have the temerity to insist on a company honoring a contract is flat wrong.

20 posted on 04/13/2017 9:51:14 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.


21 posted on 04/13/2017 9:51:15 AM PDT by 13foxtrot
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If I were United I would litigate this, but they will probably pay this guy a grossly undeserved amount of money to settle.

Even if United breached the terms of its contract with him (and they do not appear to have breached, it looks like they followed the proper procedures for requesting volunteers and offering compensation before cancelling his ticket), he did not have the right to possess the aircraft. It is not his aircraft.

He has the right to money damages from United’s breach of contract, but he did not have the right to insist on remaining in physical possession of the aircraft after United and law enforcement ordered him to remove himself from their aircraft.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 9:51:18 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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Under no analysis did UAL comply with its contract of carriage. Ask your husband what that means. Hint: its a breach of contract and a violation of federal law.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 9:51:19 AM PDT by 13foxtrot
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Cry me a river. Why is it airline employees (a SO in this case) think they are a gift to humanity?


24 posted on 04/13/2017 9:51:23 AM PDT by lodi90
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The crew was on a power trip. That’s all there is to say about tge entire incident. If you fly enough you will see others with the same attitude.


27 posted on 04/13/2017 9:55:41 AM PDT by Gamecock (Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
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that there are always two sides to every story


There are also two sides to every piece of flypaper,
and the fly had better be damned careful on which
side he lands.


31 posted on 04/13/2017 9:57:09 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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