[Qbert]

...I had forgotten about this until Bob Etheridge went psycho recently. (Beware of Democrats named "Bob")

The United employee filed assault and battery charges against Filner. Seems like what Bob Etheridge did was even worse...

[popdonnelly]

Members of Congress routinely acquire a feeling of self-importance and superiority.

[chiefqc]

Rules, Laws and common decency only apply to the little people. Elected a-hole's are way above that type of thing, don't your know who they are?

[DoughtyOne]

That’s a good start.

Next!

[oldbill]

And United tried to force the woman to back off on the charges because it didn’t want to offend Congress.

There are a thousand stories airline people could tell you about the rude, arrogant, demanding behavior of Congressman traveling on their planes and demanding priority treatment at the check-in counter.

[Bean Counter]

[skimbell]

Looks like we have a serial 'saulter!

[Pravious]

I say we get ARMIES of well behaved people in suits... with video cameras out there and BARRAGE those RAT congress creeps with “do you support Obama’s agenda?”*

And then press charges when they explode.

* - If that doesn’t work, maybe “Weren’t you at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding?” would. :-P.

[Pravious]

I say we get ARMIES of well behaved people in suits... with video cameras out there and BARRAGE those RAT congress creeps with “do you support Obama’s agenda?”*

And then press charges when they explode.

* - If that doesn’t work, maybe “Weren’t you at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding?” would. :-P.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Filner is a “red diaper baby”. Looks like he is trying to imitate “KO” Hallinan, the old Communist Party thug who liked to beat his leftist opponents in the face.

[muawiyah]

Oh, yeah, United. Look, whenever there's the slightest mess up in the way they are going to treat your luggage they send it to Chicago for safe keeping and storage.

You can almost always tell them to "check Chicago" when they can't find it at Dulles, and there it is.

I've had this happen several times over the years.

Just remember, United had ROUTE 1 and Dulles is on ROUTE 2 which was pretty much the TWA homeland. United's operations people still work like that, and unusual stuff goes to "the home office" on Route 1.

The lady who thought she was assaulted probably has no idea of how the typical naive United passenger feels when he finds out his luggage is lost and they refused to serve him peanuts on the flight. She should be very careful in the future.

Also, she should IMMEDIATELY put in a call to Chicago to get the guy's luggage back ~ most especially if he's on the way to Europe. Just transfer it to Detroit (Wayne County MI) and they have direct flights to most major airports.