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According to the New York Times, one of the 100 or so passengers stood up to retrieve his baggage from the overhead compartment before the plane had reached a complete stop and refused Slater's request that he sit down.

Slater, a career flight attendant, approached the passenger, who continued to pull his baggage from the compartment, striking Slater on the head with it in the process.

When the passenger refused to apologize, the paper reported, Slater used the public-address system to berate him, then deployed the emergency chute, grabbed a beer from the beverage cart, yelled "It's been great!" and slid down and went to his car.

He was arrested later at his home in Queens.
- bill 8-10-2010 12:41 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]