Baez
Posted on 04/21/2008 8:24:44 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Woman denies the allegations
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A woman trying to board a JetBlue flight in New York City is accused of causing a a bomb scare at JFK Airport.
The Daily News is reporting the woman, 44-year-old Rosalinda Baez, was trying to board a JetBlue plane but was stopped by an attendant because the jetway had closed.
In a complaint filed with the Brooklyn Supreme Court, prosecutors allege that Baez told the attendant her suitcase was on the plane and asked, ""What if I had a bomb in my bag?"
Baez, a Dell web consultant, says she asked: "Isn't it a security risk to let my bag travel without the passenger when there could be a bomb in the bag?"
Officials say the flight took off but was diverted.
Baez
Although this woman was wrong in using the ‘b’ word.
It brings up legitimate questions about the airlines claims of 100% bag matching between passengers and luggage.
Bottom-line, don’t EVER mention the word “bomb” in an airport. NEVER. You just don’t do it.
“Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
She asked a question, she did not make a statement. People have to learn that should be able to use the “b” word without necessarily going to prison for it.
To be honest the question she asked made perfect sense to me and the worker who had her arrested is a friggin idiot.
She’d have probably been OK if she hadn’t actually said, per the Daily News article, “well, I have a bomb in my bag, so are you going to turn the plane around?” Next time, ma’am, get to the jetway a little sooner.
Oh, and the DN article said “three hundred” people were pulled off the plane in Richmond and screened. Jetblue doesn’t have anything bigger than an A320, and that carries around 150 passengers.
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Oh yeah...uh...not guilty.
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Then you sit and wait, they scan your ticket as you board but by then the luggage is being loaded. After the last passenger is on the plane you take off within 10 minutes or so. When would they make the match up?
This woman thought she was above the average passenger and made a stupid comment while throwing her fit! She can now deal with the repercussions of thinking she was better than those who follow the rules each time we fly.
I think that's a requirement for being a TSA employee. I had my favorite gel mousepad confiscated by one of these geniuses a few months ago.
Yup. So many people complain about the airlines, but most times when there are complications on flights I’ll cut them a little slack.
MY biggest complaint with travel is about other passengers. So many seem to think that the world revolves around them. They want to be treated as royalty even though they’re only willing to buy discount tickets.
A trip across the country that not so long ago took six months and cost everything you owned, now takes less than a day. People are so soft today. So many can’t withstand even the slightest inconvenience without becoming utterly unhinged. This lady misses her flight and throws a temper tantrum, aimed at people that didn’t cause her problem. It was her own dumb fault. Heck, you didn’t even hear the Donner Party whining about their travel agent.
She acted like the stereotypical person who thinks the world should work in the manner most convenient to themselves. She did not follow the procedures outlined in her paperwork and show up early enough to make it through all of the security checks in time to be boarded properly. Instead she felt that the airline should deviate from it’s standard procedures to accomodate her. She hoped that if her bag made it on, the flight the airline was obligated to seat her as well. When confronted by the realities of of the situation, she decided to make a stink in an effort to force the airline’s hand. Her hand was forced instead. Hopefully she learned a valuable lesson.
The ‘customer is always right’ mentatility has created a group of people who think they can do whatever they like and get away with it. If more businesses stuck to their policies and made people take responsibility for their own decisions the world would be a much better place.
BTW, your tag line is true!
Didn’t read that part, yep, she goes to jail for that.
Where did you get that quote, I didn’t see it in the story at all. Is that from another source?
“the worker who had her arrested is a friggin idiot.”
In an absolute sense, yes. But when Bush refused to face down the Democrats in congress, who demanded that all such workers must join the Government Employee’s Union, he ensured that this sort of thing would happen.
Their pay was doubled, they were made into permanent Democrat voters, and they cannot be fired as long as they follow the basic rules.
So, the person who caused the arrest, and who also screwed up the plans of all the other passengers on the diverted plane, will not pay any penalty for her stupidity. From a selfish point of view, she did the smart thing.
About your “the customer is always right” mentality: reminds me of a time when I managed a restaurant/nightclub some time ago. A hard to please lady wanted something for nothing, as many customer do. I informed her that her request was out of line, to which she asked “isn’t the customer always right”, to which I kindly replied: “Ma’am, if you operated a business on that premise, you’d be bankrupt in a matter of months:.....
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