Yelling and screaming and then cutting off your own windpipe. Awesome. What a control/power freak Ms. Gotbaum must of been. Anyways, her 15 minutes of fame are over.
She sure would have been a lot better off just going with the flow and rolling with the punches.
Typical NYer.
Would there be any surveillance cameras for the holding room?
Her Houdini impersonation went terribly wrong.
Autopsy is Monday. It will be interesting to see the outcome.
Can't tolerate that in a post 9/11 world..
What did she actually do? Not kowtow obsequiously enough to the 80 I.Q., overpaid, overweight TSA petty tyrant at the gate? TSA... the home for all those loonies who can’t pass the psych exam to get on the local police force.
Focus on a possible exploded aorta or a stroke via personal attitude.
not that a government security agent would ever do anything to justifiably anger a passenger......
i spent one summer at the national archives and by the time i left there i wanted to punch out one of their security guards—and i am a woman. these low level government entitlees often take their jobs way too seriously and use it as an opportunity to control people they otherwise would have no control over.
Officers handcuffed her and took her to the holding room, where she kept screaming
Heck, they rebooked her flight. She should have gone to the bar and had a large glass of chill the %$#@ out.
Why would a person have cuffs on while inside a holding cell? And how do cuffs get around a person’s neck when they are on the wrists?
There is more to this story than they are telling. In fact, I would go as far to say this story is a load of BS. Someone is telling some big fat lies to save their a$$.
She was traumatized enough even without it apparently.
Is anyone surprised?
Yelling and screaming and then cutting off your own windpipe. Awesome. What a control/power freak Ms. Gotbaum must of been. Anyways, her 15 minutes of fame are over.
Her family in NYC is very well connected and very litigious. I expect a $10 million settlement.
Heard this on a news report on the radio this afternoon. Apparently, she was late to catch her flight (no explanation given) and they would not let her board the plane. They immediately rebooked her on the following flight - but that just wasn’t “good enough” and she went nuts.
I was thinking that she might very well be a candidate for the Darwin Award®. How do you choke yourself to death trying to get out of handcuffs?
Why I left NYC and moved back to the South after three years there...sounds like this extremely irate running up and down the gate area screaming lady brought it on herself, nothing to do with TSA screening. When you are at the gate area, you are past the TSA and security guards get called only for extreme disturbances. What did she want them to do - have the plane taxi back to pick her up?