Jet Blue flight attendant gets ignored, hit in head, yelled at and becomes folk hero for running from plane

Hey we all need our Ned Kelly's, Billy the Kids...perhaps the average Joe Blow (ie Joe Bloggs) s/b the latest folk hero, vs the idiot screw up sports stars or other celebrities.  

 CL not hard for me, I am tall, my knees are always in the seat in front of me, except AA.  They really do have a little more leg room!  

You could ask the person reclyning to move the seat back up.....

I've been asked this........seeing how tall the person is.....quickly the seat goes back up

It's all about common courtesy.....not private space......especially in a plane

One article I read today bashed any and all that feel this attendant is a hero, went on to give reasons why.  Yeah, Yeah....but there are so many that would like to do something like that.  The worst thing for the passengers was that they heard words they would have rather not.  That sure does beat the ones that turn postal and kill co-workers. 

This same article was the only one I have read that claimed the passanger's actions were all accidental. 

And to add to Gillum's rant... the people who bring newspapers and think they should be able to fully expand the paper with no regard to the person next to them or the person in front of them that contstantly gets the back of his head rubbed by it.  Yes, happened to my husband on a flight from Hawaii.  Or the person that just could not stand the fact that the seat in front of hers was in the reclining position and kept hitting and kicking the back of the chair.  Yes again happened to my husband on the way to Spain.  Those 5 inches were killing her - she did not speak English either and by the looks of the flight attendant, she had had enough of that woman as well. 

What this flight attendent did is a federal offense.....

He using the planes announcement system to berate the passenger is all that should have been done.

Some years ago I was on a flight.....was using my cd player .......passenger in front asked me to lower it......how the heck did he hear it?.........headphones.......yeah I had it turned up all the way........passenger next to me was fine with my volume.........I lowered the volume

Never know what sets a person off

Seatbelts...like they will save you in a plane crash.  How about seat belts on school buses?  Wonders never cease.

Flyers are angry by the time they FINALLY get on the plane IMO. By the time they have had to take off their shoes and get to walk on unsanitary floors picking up who knows what from those bare feet in front of them and from the last boarding group and the previous group and the previous day, losing any expensive shampoo or other products they forgot to remove before leaving home, being herded like cattle, their purses and suitcases gone through or scanned, and then getting a body scan with who knows what ramifications down the road, then sitting on the tarmack for who knows how long before takeoff and then again after lamnding.... So now we have a metal cigar filled with frustrated passengers (could someone PLEASE slip that crying baby (or worse yet crabby, whiney kid) a Mickey?) and flight attendants who have been the butt of these angry people for hours on end.... And we are surprised one went gonzo?

people like that appliance woman make me crazy they don't tell you these things for a laugh it is to stop the plane crashing! surley this is in your interest? Same thing with the pushing off the plane. In this country they actually measure your hand luggage so that keeps it down you are only allowed a bag the size of a large hand bag and that  is it.

 See I am of the opposite mentality, to me the flight attendants are always huddling away out of site gossiping and never serving their customers.  

 "Artist's" interpretation of Steven Slater exiting the plane.

 It was caught on every news wire, I just grabbed the first one.  

another version of the story

all i know is there are days when i'd love to escape from whatever job i'm doing by sliding down an emergency chute. best would be to have a motorcycle waiting to roar off on ... or at least a moped.

i would like to know why that passenger is not being called out for

1. disobeying the directions of the flight attendant and opening the overhead compartment

2. striking the flight attendant in the head with the compartment door by his/her? action

3. telling the flight attendant to

4. not apologizing

not all flight attendants are saints and not all passengers are evil, but some of the nonsense that i've seen some passengers pull on airplanes makes me wonder why more attendants don't lose it.

Think of some of your PITAs and think about rather than having another room to flee to or brekkie being over so they are out or leave - you are stuck in a large cigar made of metal and 30,000 feet in the air so there is nowhere to go! You are stuck listening to Madam Grumblegutts for several hours in addition to the crying baby, the white-knuckled terrified of flying hanging over the barf bag, the businessman who lost the last sale and is on his way home to face the boss and his wife who is waiting to restart the argument so is VERY testy, some very sweet people, but the rest of them are hunfry and the airline no longer serves food OR snacks.........

I am surprised he lasted 28 years!

 Which is also odd cuz if you raise your voice or anything they will boot you right off a plane these days.  I laughed when I read this story tho, for 26 years this guy has wanted to hit that chute and get the heck out of dodge. ha ha

Really? They needed to send 50 cops to his house to pick him up?

No telling what he had gone through that day (previous flights).  Gone are the days where a flight attendent is considered a classy job.  - Remember the '60's - it was a girls dream job!  Now, when I have to fly, all is see are stressed to the max faces being bellowed at by cranky old hoots that fly on a daily basis. 

Interesting to note that at the bottom of the article they mention his interests as listed on Face b ook and info from his Lin kedin accounts.  We are all an open book now.