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Mike E

Mike E

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Unites Airlines overbooked a flight from Chicago (as is usual -stupid- practice). They asked for 4 volunteers to de-board, and 3 did. When no-one else would they 'independently selected' a man of Oriental appearance, but he insisted he was a doctor with patients to see in Kentucky.

Solution? Have 3 'security officers' forcibly drag him from his seat (paid for by him and nobody else), ram his face into an armrest, and drag him by the arms, bloodied and unconscious, down the aisle of the plane.
 
Drog

Drog

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I imagine he'll sue for a princely sum. Personal injury stress, racism, sexism, ageism it's all there. A good lawyer and he wont ever have to go past the court steps to never have to work again.
And in the process United spewed both their reputation and their entire advertising budget for the past few years. Like the old truism... it takes years to build a good reputation and 5 minutes to lose it.
 
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Vinjay

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Mike E said:
Unites Airlines overbooked a flight from Chicago (as is usual -stupid- practice). They asked for 4 volunteers to de-board, and 3 did. When no-one else would they 'independently selected' a man of Oriental appearance, but he insisted he was a doctor with patients to see in Kentucky.

Solution? Have 3 'security officers' forcibly drag him from his seat (paid for by him and nobody else), ram his face into an armrest, and drag him by the arms, bloodied and unconscious, down the aisle of the plane.
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Turns out the Doctor has a past many may consider "tawdry" but somehow I don't think the people dragging him out knew that! Therefore it seems a clear cut payday for him (even if they did know for that matter)

Suppose he's used to embarrassment at least so might get over it. While the recording does no harm in evidence terms its degrading isn't it to see it go viral all over the internet? Don't think the people recording meant any harm in this instance (clearly other passengers objected) though you have to wonder if they would have been standing there filming if a car wreck happened in front of them. Glad I'm no longer in school must be a nightmare with everyone having phones these days.
 
blueandwhitehalves

blueandwhitehalves

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Mike E said:
Unites Airlines overbooked a flight from Chicago (as is usual -stupid- practice). They asked for 4 volunteers to de-board, and 3 did. When no-one else would they 'independently selected' a man of Oriental appearance, but he insisted he was a doctor with patients to see in Kentucky.

Solution? Have 3 'security officers' forcibly drag him from his seat (paid for by him and nobody else), ram his face into an armrest, and drag him by the arms, bloodied and unconscious, down the aisle of the plane.
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Very, very poor that. Overbooking should be banned as a practice. I don't see why airlines have to lose revenue anyway, why can't they just say something like no refunds whatsoever once the flight is fully booked in their terms and conditions.

It's a disgraceful idea to think you can charge someone for a service and then forcibly deny them it if nobody is willing to be effectively bribed off the plane. What a shoddy, disrespectful way to do business.
 
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Tom

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Overbooking is an odd thing that doesn't often cause real issues - in this case the flight wasn't overbooked they just needed the seats to get some of their staff to another airport which somehow seems worse.

Hopefully he sues them and takes them to the cleaners.

As above though the damage to the brand has been done already
 
Drog

Drog

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Tom said:
Overbooking is an odd thing that doesn't often cause real issues - in this case the flight wasn't overbooked they just needed the seats to get some of their staff to another airport which somehow seems worse.

Hopefully he sues them and takes them to the cleaners.

As above though the damage to the brand has been done already
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1 billion wiped off the share value is quite a slap on the wrist.
 
yoda

yoda

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Trump was and is right about no go areas in European cities. Wifes' best friend lives in Paris, it is getting worse by the day, some areas are a definite no go in the day time never mind the evening. Her and the hubby who is Spanish are thinking of selling up and moving out, he doesn't want to go back to Spain as some places where he grew up are experiencing the same problems. He reckons this summer will be the flash point as the poorly heads are getting more boisterous and the Police/gendarmes are under staffed for a full on conflict with them.
 
Drog

Drog

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At some time the gloves will have to come off. It's an inevitability.
 
blueandwhitehalves

blueandwhitehalves

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ABBEY said:
British woman stabbed to death in isreal by a palanstine .
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'Very mentally disturbed' according to the authorities. To be honest I've no doubt he was, but has anyone else noticed that a lot more mentally disturbed Muslims kill people than mentally disturbed non-Muslims?

If you're mentally disturbed, you haven't lost all functioning faculties. You still absorb information from your surroundings, but have a faulty way of processing it. The mentally disturbed in some Muslim communities obviously absorb the same potentially extremist stuff as other Muslims and due to their faulty mental processing, decide on dangerous actions.
 
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Vinjay

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Its another one of those debates on mental illness as I commented on earlier in this thread. Are terrorists just plain evil or mentally warped? Those willing to kill themselves are either suicidal for other reasons (and using it as an excuse) or genuinely deluded. How can you sum up people who genuinely think they are going to eternal paradise without bringing mental illness into it? Without doubt its cowardly to kill defenceless people (9/11 for instance though I understood what Bill Maher said in a way he just picked the worst timing) and its certainly not cowardly to commit suicide if you think you're gonna go to paradise for it. Bin Laden was an absolute coward (didn't kill himself after all just brainwashed his more gullible followers) though you could argue mental illness there too. Who the hell gives up such wealth to go live in a cave? Saddam was a horrible man but can't say he died like a coward. US version says Bin Laden did (so some may dispute it) trying to hide behind one of his wifes wasn't he?

Don't mind religion when its harmless (those who are genuinely peaceful but look at the damage/brainwashing throughout history committed in the name of religion) but even those who are non violent in many cases just choose whatever interpretation suits them. I'm sure there will be suicide bombers for rest of my lifetime however much ISIS territory is taken back.
 
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