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Fly the Friendly Skies! Insane moment United Airlines worker punches passenger at airport check-in before he's smacked so hard he flies into the luggage conveyor belt!
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 23, 2022 | Jack Newman

Posted on 05/23/2022 7:19:32 AM PDT by Morgana

This is the shocking moment a United Airlines worker hits a passenger at the check-in desk before he is punched to the ground in a vicious brawl, leaving his face covered in blood.

Footage shared online shows the employee and the holidaymaker trading punches in the ugly fight in front of horrified tourists at Newark Airport.

The man in the black sweatshirt had approached the check-in desk pushing his luggage in a wheelchair.

The uniformed United employee then confronted him over his use of the wheelchair, which quickly descended into a physical fight.

Footage being shared does not show the start of the altercation but it does show the employee striking the passenger in the face.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: newark
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To: Morgana

Airline worker started the fight with a open handed sissy slap. Who did he think he was, Will Smith?

Well, he wasn’t dealing with a Dave Chappell on stage and he received well-deserved punches.


21 posted on 05/23/2022 7:39:24 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Morgana
AHHH, YES!The romance of air travel

PFFT!😖😖
22 posted on 05/23/2022 7:40:33 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: BipolarBob
I picked a bad week to give heroin.

Whoa dude, what's this look like, the dark web??

23 posted on 05/23/2022 7:42:56 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: Morgana

I always tell my husband to book us into Philly instead of Newark - I feel safer in the Philly airport.


24 posted on 05/23/2022 7:43:08 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Morgana
The video looks damning for the airline worker but of course we only have the context of the video we are shown. One would need to know what transpired leading up to the video to put the incident in proper context.

Anyway, an employee throwing the first punch in an altercation with a customer has likely never ended well for the employee.

I don't understand the wheelchair reference. Was the passenger bringing the wheelchair for himself or for somebody he was travelling with? That guy definitely did NOT need a wheelchair for himself!

25 posted on 05/23/2022 7:44:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,042,303 active users on Truth Social)
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To: Jim W N

The main takeaway lesson I got from this is, if you come back for more, then come back ready to draw some blood.


26 posted on 05/23/2022 7:44:35 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

“Whoa dude, what’s this look like, the dark web?? “

Since you asked


27 posted on 05/23/2022 7:44:43 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

Add to my blessings count that I don’t have to fly anymore.


28 posted on 05/23/2022 7:56:07 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: rlmorel

According to the comments, there is a longer version (Twitter) of the video that shows the passenger as the initial aggressor.


29 posted on 05/23/2022 8:01:22 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Ikeon

There’s even a name for it: “The airport miracle” Where someone books a ticket as disabled, gets their (usually) fat a$$ hauled around the airport on a wheelchair, through long lines, and onto a plane first, and then on arrival they are miraculously healed!

I have seen this MANY times, it is usually a fat privileged minority person. Is it racist? No it is the facts as I see them.

Requesting a disabled priority treatment should require a doctors note.


30 posted on 05/23/2022 8:04:41 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Delta 21

I guess he didn’t want to pay for a luggage cart. Some people are entitled, you know./s


31 posted on 05/23/2022 8:06:44 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: Morgana

Newark, NJ is a tough place...


32 posted on 05/23/2022 8:11:15 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: marktwain
The United Employee hit him first

Not correct. The longer video shows the passenger slap the employee, who tried to come back at the passenger a few seconds later. The employee should have just backed off, called the airport police, and have the guy arrested. Now he is the laughing stock of people who are blaming him, he will lose his job, and the passenger might try to sue the airline.
33 posted on 05/23/2022 8:12:42 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I described this to someone and asked what airport and the guess was immediately Newark. The passenger type was saving money using a wheelchair to transport his luggage. Who knows what he said to the baggage guy. Employee will get fired and everyone will know to let those types do anything they want.


34 posted on 05/23/2022 8:13:58 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Ikeon

Maybe he was entitled to use the wheelchair because he is better than everyone


35 posted on 05/23/2022 8:15:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Morgana

I would bet dollars to donut holes this as caused by the usurious overcharge to get a baggage cart. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to pay $6 - $10 for one. They should be a no-charge item in the airport.

BTW, NEVER fly ANY US/Canadian based airline if you can avoid it. They are all, each and every one of them, crap.


36 posted on 05/23/2022 8:17:00 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Morgana

I always marvel at the stupidity of how some people fight.

1) start with an open hand slap? Is he a woman?
2) come back bowed up with his hands as low as possible? He deserved to get hit in the face.
3) standing straight up, square, not in an athletic stance? One push and he will topple over.

MOST importantly:
I’ve been trained and have fought in kickboxing matches and there is no way in hell I would start a fight with an unknown unless I was protecting someone. They can be armed. They can be street brawlers with no mercy.

Everything about the white guy’s approach and decision was stupid.


37 posted on 05/23/2022 8:19:53 AM PDT by laxcoach (The secret to happiness is a bait pen full of pinfish.)
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To: wbarmy; All
The United Employee hit him first

Not correct. The longer video shows the passenger slap the employee, who tried to come back at the passenger a few seconds later.

Wow. Thanks for the info. Wonder why the longer version is not shown.

Seems like slander of the employee.

38 posted on 05/23/2022 8:20:01 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Morgana

The black dude showed a lot of restraint and smarts. Made sure the slap had a witness, before two well-placed shots. Then held back when the moron came back for more.


39 posted on 05/23/2022 8:22:28 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Morgana

I don’t think passenger use of a wheelchair to haul luggage inside an airport is cause for a United Airlines employee to deliver a beatdown.

If you start a beating, you better be able to finish it.

I do understand how the torture and humiliation of today’s airline travel could trigger a passenger to go medieval on an airline employee.

I particularly liked the recent video of what Mike Tyson did to another passenger on an airliner who was taunting him.

For some reason, morons pick on well-known professional boxers who can easily knock them into the next century.

I talked to a chauffer who drove Steven Seagal and he said Seagal always has bodyguards with him in public because drunks invariably want to pick a fight with the martial arts expert/actor.


40 posted on 05/23/2022 8:23:52 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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