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So what do you think about that flight attendant who got fed up with a passenger whose overhead luggage fell on him after landing, whereupon he got on the intercom to cuss out the passenger, then grabbed some beer off the service car and activated the emergency exit to slide onto the tarmac?<\/p>\n

Authorities said [Steven] Slater dropped several f-bombs on a JetBlue flight\u2019s loud speaker Monday night, grabbed two beers, deployed the plane\u2019s emergency slide at Kennedy Airport, and then took off.<\/p>\n

From all accounts, the 38-year old Slater simply had had enough.<\/p>\n

Sporting a cut on his forehead from fallen overhead baggage, Slater walked out of Port Authority Police Headquarters after the incident, handcuffed with a smirk on his face and absolutely nothing to say.<\/p>\n

But passenger Philip Catelinet said Slater had plenty to say over the plane\u2019s public announcement system while he was on board JetBlue Flight 1052 out of Pittsburgh on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cHe said, \u2018to the passenger who called me a (expletive expletive, expletive) you. I\u2019ve been in this business 28 years. And that\u2019s it, I\u2019m done\u2019,\u201d Catelinet said.\n

Catelinet said Slater spouted the obscenities after his flight landed at JFK from Pittsburgh International Airport. Airport authorities said Slater snapped after he argued with a passenger attempting to get overhead baggage before the plane was parked at the gate.<\/p>\n

via Judge Grants Bail For JetBlue Flight Attendant \u00ab CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019VE wanted to do that, when stuck on the tarmac and fed up with bad airline service, but it\u2019s strange for someone working for the airline to take such measures against his customers.\u00a0 I do know that flight attendants do suffer abuse from passengers. This reminds me of a time when I was stuck on the runway at Detroit, after my flights had already been messed up. A fellow passenger started complaining about the airline to the flight attendant, saying how every time he flies this airline he has problems, how this company is one of the worst run ever, how the owners don\u2019t know what they are doing, and on and on. The flight attendant, the representative of this company to the passenger, shut him up by saying, \u201cYou think that\u2019s bad? How would you like to work for them?\u201d<\/p>\n

At any rate, Mr. Slater certainly deserves the Johnny Paycheck \u201cTake This Job and Shove It\u201d award.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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