Fed-up JetBlue flight attendant drops intercom F-bomb, screams, 'I've had it,' bolts plane

New York Daily News ^ | August 9, 2010 | Alison Gendar and Dave Goldiner

[EveningStar]

A JetBlue flight attendant blew his top on an incoming flight at Kennedy Airport on Monday, dropped the F-bomb over the intercom and bolted down an emergency slide.

[Frantzie]

Great story. Good job on your part for telling the witch to get lost. These people are disgusting on flights. Usually Florida to NYC or DC or some horrible liberal stronghold.

It is all about them and they act like small children. They think it is their private jet.

I feel sorry for the flight attendant. I am not a supporter of his lifestyle, he probably should have tried to calm down but I could see why he lost it.

Some people on flights treat the stewardess/stewards like garbage. It is a thankless job.

I go out of my way to be nice to them to hopefully make up for some of the nasty people they have to deal with. Most people on flights are nice but it takes just a few to make everyone miserable.

[Frantzie]

I have seen the vermin getting on Jet Blue to NYC. I would not last a day. Jet Blue is actually pretty good. I have flown them to Charlotte but totally different clientele. A lot of the passengers think they are special for flying Jet Blue especially to NYC. It attracts a LOT of lib passengers.

[Frantzie]

Thanks. I flew about 2 months ago. I had to do the moose x-ray. You stand in front of a screen and hold your thumbs by your forehead liek antlers.

I pretty much said - “that’s it _ I am not going through this BS anymore.” O asked the TSA supervisor a 50+ lady if any other airports in the area do not have the machine. “No they all do now.” She said you can opt but you get frisked. Great.

I told her I was going to stop flying. She was actually pretty nice. It is an outrage that passengers and crew members have to go through this because of Islam. Islam and Muslims have been blowing up planes since the 1970s.

A small group takes away the rights of the citizens of a huge country. I rant about TV and how I cancelled it but all the networks that own all the channels support him and Islam 100%. Our freedoms keep disappering due to politically correct facism and a media that pushes that agenda. Sick.

[La Enchiladita]

I think, sadly, you understand today’s world perfectly well.

He really should do time. He’s out on bail and will go to trial. For an airline employee to do something as completely unsafe as deploying the emergency slide for his own personal use is way beyond the pale. I suspect that beer wasn’t his first one that evening.

[MEGoody]

When anyone from the crew tells you to do something, you had better just shut up and do it. Period.

I agree. They have FAA rules and airline rules they are expected to enforce.

I do think this particular attendant got a little hysterical, though. He's probably going to at least have to pay for repacking/repairing/replacing the slide.

[GatorGirl]

Actually, gay or not, I admire the guy. The theatricality of it all made me think he’s gay.

I would have loved witnessing that!!

True that about Jet Blue passengers (and Northeasterners, in general). They pay very little on these discount carriers and act like they deserve to be treated like royalty!

I think the guy did what the majority of us wish we could do after a very bad day. Viva theatrical exits!

[murdoog]

Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have. Steven Slater has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane.

He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct

[Still Thinking]

I once had a woman start using her blackberry on the plain when we were coming in for a landing. I told her to shut it off and asked her “do you know why the federal laws say you can’t use it while the plane is in motion?” to which she said “no, why?”. I told her it was to prevent inteferrence with the navigation and radio equipment used by the flight crew, and that her rush to use her phone could result in a crash of the plain (probably not but worse case could drive my point through her thick skull). She looked at me like she had just seen something horrifying. Then she said something along the lines of “well they should say that then”. She is one of the cattle that flies and ignores the rules because they get in the way of her desires.

I always thought that was kind of an old wive's tale, that the story was probably more like that the avionics had been tested without the effect of the consumer stuff, so it was an untested variable and that's why it was banned. But they tested it on MythBusters and they could actually create some scenarios where the consumer electronics could spook the avionics into doing the wrong thing.

[Still Thinking]

I'm seriously considering the idea that we all organize a Cloward-Piven strategy on the TSA and make EVERYONE demand to be frisked instead of going through the body scanners. Just think of the gridlock at the airports that that would cause. What would the TSA do under those circumstances?

Frisk everybody. They don't care if everyone misses their flights. It's not their money. And the airlines probably wouldn't care because they've probably put the burden on you to be at the GATE on time or be considered a no-show. Shoot, they'd be shiite-ing in the tall cotton. Get to keep a plane worth of fares and not even have to fly.

[Still Thinking]

Talk about your bad days.

But was it......a JELLYFISH bad day??

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit.

This time of year the water is quite cool. So here's what we do to keep warm: We have a diesel-powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temp. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a damn good plan, doesn't it? I've used it several times with no complaints.

When I get to the bottom and start working, what I do is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my neck and flood my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until my ass started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my itchy ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done.

In agony I realized what had happened. The hot-water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. This is even worse than poison ivy under a cast. I had put that hose down my back, but I don't have any hair on my back, so the jellyfish couldn't get stuck to my back. My ass crack was not as fortunate.

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into my ass. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communications system. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he and 5 other divers were laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make 3 hellish in-water decompression stops totaling 35 minutes before I could reach the surface for my chamber dry decompression. I got to the surface wearing nothing but my brass helmet. My suit and gear were tied to the bell. When I got on board, the medic, with tears of laughter streaming down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to coat my ass when I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my asshole was swollen shut.

We've since modified the equipment to filter out most sea creatures.

Anyway, the next time you have a bad day at the office, think of me. Think about how much worse your day would be if you were to squash a jellyfish on your ass. I hope you have no bad days at the office. But if you do, I hope this will make it more tolerable.

[trisham]

Put him in jail.