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There's enough blame to go around but at the end of the day, the guy refused to comply with the crew to the point the authorities had to be called

Posted by oblique, SuperFeud Champion (aka kkuphal) Apr 11 '17, 06:11

Guess what, they have every right to kick my ass off the plane. I don't have the right to sit in my seat like a little kid until the police have to be called and drag me off kicking and screaming. Once the cops show up, you know shit is not going your way. Time to leave.

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you think they have every right to kick you off a plane? see, i don't. I think they have a right to bump passengers, with compensation that a - Andie Apr 11, 06:12 11
- especially for employees of the airline - decline Apr 11, 06:15
- To get to the point of resorting to physical violence is truly overkill. -- nm - budice Apr 11, 06:14 3
  - I'm not sure what else someone expects is going to happen when the authorities get involved -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 11, 06:15 2
    - our point is, United should never have let that happen in the first place. there were many other ways to deal with it. -- nm - Andie Apr 11, 06:16
    - They shouldn't have been! -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 06:16
- I bet you'd agree they have the right for a varity of reasons to deboard the plane, right? - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 11, 06:14 5
  - for reasons of plane safety. This is 100% a financial decision on United's part. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 06:15 4
    - A passenger refusing to deboard seems unsafe to me... - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Apr 11, 06:16 3
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        and, i heard (haven't verified) that one of the officers has already been placed on leave pending an investigation. So, it's clearly not entirely - Andie Apr 11, 06:21
      - this is United getting the cops to enforce their fuck up. There's 0 justification for it to get to that point. -- nm - Reagen Apr 11, 06:17

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There's enough blame to go around but at the end of the day, the guy refused to comply with the crew to the point the authorities had to be called

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