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Buried at the bottom: > "The airline eventually cleared everyone from the plane, Bridges said, and did not let them back on until the man was removed a second

by pbiggar 10y ago

Buried at the bottom: > "The airline eventually cleared everyone from the plane, Bridges said, and did not let them back on until the man was removed a second time — in a stretcher." My reading is they beat him so badly they had to put him in a stretcher. Is that right?

helipad 10y ago
I would imagine it was a form of restraining him.
- eximius 10y ago
  Have you seen the video? It isn't clear to me if he's unconscious or just limp.
  - walterbell 10y ago
    One article claimed that a stun gun was used, hence the need to drag him out. Edit: it was a tweet quoted by Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/united-airlines-passenger-dragged-off-flight http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/united-airlines-passe...
    - uptown 10y ago
      They also smashed his face against the arm rest. That seems like it may have been a contributing factor.
      - Mithaldu 10y ago
        Y'all somehow missed the article saying he was carried out on a stretcher AFTER he went onto the plane a SECOND time.
- pbiggar 10y ago
  I'm extremely skeptical. They had a stretcher to hand but no handcuffs?
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ino 10y ago
He was visibly traumatised (videos show a man bleeding and under mental stress, not safe for work) https://twitter.com/Tyler_Bridges/status/851228695360663552 https://twitter.com/Tyler_Bridges/status/851228695360663552 https://twitter.com/kaylyn_davis/status/851480498186485760 https://twitter.com/kaylyn_davis/status/851480498186485760
synicalx 10y ago
He was fine, before they finally got him out he was running up and down the plane.
- Doxin 10y ago
  There's a clear difference between fine and physically fine. The man is rather clearly in a rather severe mental state when he got on the plane the second time. For comparison: a close friend suffers from tonic-clonic seizures. That's the kind you see in movies when they try to be dramating, violent shaking, foaming at the mouth. the whole nine yards. After waking up from a seizure like that he often acts rather single-mindedly towards a goal, turning violent if anything or anyone is in his way. A while back he had a seizure in public, it took 6 police officers to get him wrangled into the ambulance. This sort of significant personality change doesn't happen from a slight bump to the head. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy has a rather severe concussion. So no. I don't think the adult man frantically mumbling "I gotta get home, I gotta get home, I gotta get home" with a bloodied face is fine by any stretch of the imagination. In fact I reckon the only reason he managed to get back on the plane is because of, to put it bluntly, retard strength caused by a serious knock to the brain.

by pbiggar 10y ago

helipad 10y ago

I would imagine it was a form of restraining him.

eximius 10y ago
Have you seen the video? It isn't clear to me if he's unconscious or just limp.
- walterbell 10y ago
  One article claimed that a stun gun was used, hence the need to drag him out. Edit: it was a tweet quoted by Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/united-airlines-passenger-dragged-off-flight http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/united-airlines-passe...
  - uptown 10y ago
    They also smashed his face against the arm rest. That seems like it may have been a contributing factor.
    - Mithaldu 10y ago
      Y'all somehow missed the article saying he was carried out on a stretcher AFTER he went onto the plane a SECOND time.
pbiggar 10y ago
I'm extremely skeptical. They had a stretcher to hand but no handcuffs?

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ino 10y ago

He was visibly traumatised (videos show a man bleeding and under mental stress, not safe for work) https://twitter.com/Tyler_Bridges/status/851228695360663552 https://twitter.com/Tyler_Bridges/status/851228695360663552 https://twitter.com/kaylyn_davis/status/851480498186485760 https://twitter.com/kaylyn_davis/status/851480498186485760

synicalx 10y ago

He was fine, before they finally got him out he was running up and down the plane.

Doxin 10y ago
There's a clear difference between fine and physically fine. The man is rather clearly in a rather severe mental state when he got on the plane the second time. For comparison: a close friend suffers from tonic-clonic seizures. That's the kind you see in movies when they try to be dramating, violent shaking, foaming at the mouth. the whole nine yards. After waking up from a seizure like that he often acts rather single-mindedly towards a goal, turning violent if anything or anyone is in his way. A while back he had a seizure in public, it took 6 police officers to get him wrangled into the ambulance. This sort of significant personality change doesn't happen from a slight bump to the head. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy has a rather severe concussion. So no. I don't think the adult man frantically mumbling "I gotta get home, I gotta get home, I gotta get home" with a bloodied face is fine by any stretch of the imagination. In fact I reckon the only reason he managed to get back on the plane is because of, to put it bluntly, retard strength caused by a serious knock to the brain.