Flight Attendant Quits And Exits Plane Via Emergency Slide

You may question his actions, but you can't say that 38-year-old flight attendant Steven Slater doesn't know how to quit in style. After a passenger refused to apologize for hitting him in the head with either a bag or the overhead compartment, Slater got on the the loudspeaker and told those aboard to "go f*** themselves." He the grabbed a couple beers from the drink cart, activated the emergency chute, and slid away into unemployment.

Comments

Re:Mystified

[ZWarrior]

I would hope you are the only one mystified by it.

The reason for the stew's popularity? He did what so many of us would like to do when the rude people win. Tell them off and get the last word.

As a frequent traveler, I won't condemn him/ however, I will say that his actions, although excessive and illegal, are indicative of a reaction to the change in attitude toward others I have seen while traveling. Most, but not all, passengers on flights ignore the stews all flight except when they want something from the stews. Meanwhile they put up with rude people who feel that what they want and need is more important than anyone elses needs on the flight, no matter what.

The stew was hit in the head because someone opend a overhead bin into his head. When confronted and asked to apologize the person in question refused. Common courtesy and manners says apologize, but the attitudes I see these days says that they should tell the stew where to go.

Is it too much to ask that we go back to treating each other the way we want to be treated?

7 years?

[BonquiquiShiquavius]

So yeah, he was completely unprofessional, and could have hurt the ground crew...but 7 years prison potentially? That seems a bit much.

Re:7 years?

[SomePoorSchmuck]

"An action that could easily have killed someone".
Are you kidding me?

Should someone spend 10% of their life in prison for doing a "rolling stop" at a red light?
Should a tractor-trailer driver who goes 9mph over the speed limit spend 22,000 consecutive days in a jail cell?
Should someone who sets off a string of Black Cats on a dry 4th of July Day get 7 years of daily life with murderers and rapists and, even worse, crooked hedge fund managers?