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Was on a United Flight a few years back.

Received a cell phone call just as I putting my luggage into the overhead.

Turns out may father had had a heart attack was in the emergency room.

While I was waiting to find out if my father was still alive, a very belligerent United flight attendant came up and ordered me to shut the phone off.

I explained to her the situation and she became even more belligerent and ordered me to turn the phone off or she would call security and have me arrested.

After about another 30 seconds, she informed me she was leaving the plane to get Sky Marshals to have me pulled off the plane and arrested so I shut the phone down

People were still boarding the plane and the captain had not even fired up the engines.

We sat at the gate for another half hour .

I had to wait until we landed 6 hrs to find out my father had died.

This attitude towards passengers seems to be a United Airlines corporate culture thing , which is too bad because United used to be a great airline back in the day

The whole TSA airport security system is really a disaster that needs to reformed .

The war on terror would be won in less than a year if every American was forced to suffer through airport security on a weekly basis - using nuclear weapons if necessary.

Do you know how many stories like yours I’ve heard? These flight crew are nasty.

I say start calling them Stewardesses and put them back in go go boots and hot pants like in the old days. Maybe their attitude will improve a bit. While they are at it they can go back in the cabin and make Laz a sammach.