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ghaff 9y ago
If this hadn't hit social media, I'd be willing to bet good money that he'd have been arrested and facing felony charges.
- TillE 9y ago
  Funny how cops and corporations have difficulty lying and/or abusing their power when there's video evidence, huh?
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - nebabyte 9y ago
    Good thing we're laying the groundwork for "controlled information", such as not recording your experiences to play back for others (say, if it involves a police officer [or 'voting officials' at voting booths, as we tell them they're called - snort snort guffaw]) or being able to share things that happen to you under an NDA or gag order Phew!
frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
>The only person who should go to jail is the person who thought he was so much more important than everyone else on his plane that he was the only one who refused to leave when asked, legally, by a police officer. Not only did he think he was more important than everyone on HIS plane, he thought he was more important than the people on the plane that was going to get cancelled because it didn't have a flight crew. Running back onto a plane, screaming, after being removed by law enforcement is a crime. He should go to jail. This is such a crazy level of corporate apology that it's got to be sarcastic. United was not in the right to remove him. He stood up to that. If United really wanted to make room they should go for the market-based solution of just continuing to increase the price they were willing to pay for you to vacate your seat.
- slapshot 9y ago
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  - orf 9y ago
    Screaming and bleeding, don't forget. You didn't answer his comment though, why didn't they offer more money? Where is your compassion?
    - wfunction 9y ago
      And did they offer cash, or just a voucher?
      - connorcpu 9y ago
        They were offering $800 worth of vouchers, but it's multiple vouchers where you can only use 1 at a time and they expire in a year.
        wfunction 9y ago
        God... vouchers are useless unless you travel and want to do it with United. If they really care to avoid messing up their image they need to give cash...
  - frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
    >but REQUIRES that United do so. It doesn't require that United call police to remove someone after they hit some arbitrary price limit. >He didn't "stand up" -- he ran back onto a flight, screaming, after he didn't get his way. Sorry, but he needs to go to jail for disrupting his flight and the flight downstream that didn't have a flight crew because of his antics. Good. He should inflict as much pain on the corporate beauracracy as possible. He should make everyone involved in this situation pissed off and then he should remind them that this is United's fuckup, not his. I also hope he takes as many millions as he can get out of United's pocketbook, especially considering their CEO's immediate response.
sctb 9y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115911 and marked it off-topic.

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If this hadn't hit social media, I'd be willing to bet good money that he'd have been arrested and facing felony charges.

TillE 9y ago
Funny how cops and corporations have difficulty lying and/or abusing their power when there's video evidence, huh?
- deleted 9y ago
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- nebabyte 9y ago
  Good thing we're laying the groundwork for "controlled information", such as not recording your experiences to play back for others (say, if it involves a police officer [or 'voting officials' at voting booths, as we tell them they're called - snort snort guffaw]) or being able to share things that happen to you under an NDA or gag order Phew!

frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago

>The only person who should go to jail is the person who thought he was so much more important than everyone else on his plane that he was the only one who refused to leave when asked, legally, by a police officer. Not only did he think he was more important than everyone on HIS plane, he thought he was more important than the people on the plane that was going to get cancelled because it didn't have a flight crew. Running back onto a plane, screaming, after being removed by law enforcement is a crime. He should go to jail. This is such a crazy level of corporate apology that it's got to be sarcastic. United was not in the right to remove him. He stood up to that. If United really wanted to make room they should go for the market-based solution of just continuing to increase the price they were willing to pay for you to vacate your seat.

slapshot 9y ago
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- orf 9y ago
  Screaming and bleeding, don't forget. You didn't answer his comment though, why didn't they offer more money? Where is your compassion?
  - wfunction 9y ago
    And did they offer cash, or just a voucher?
    - connorcpu 9y ago
      They were offering $800 worth of vouchers, but it's multiple vouchers where you can only use 1 at a time and they expire in a year.
      - wfunction 9y ago
        God... vouchers are useless unless you travel and want to do it with United. If they really care to avoid messing up their image they need to give cash...
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  >but REQUIRES that United do so. It doesn't require that United call police to remove someone after they hit some arbitrary price limit. >He didn't "stand up" -- he ran back onto a flight, screaming, after he didn't get his way. Sorry, but he needs to go to jail for disrupting his flight and the flight downstream that didn't have a flight crew because of his antics. Good. He should inflict as much pain on the corporate beauracracy as possible. He should make everyone involved in this situation pissed off and then he should remind them that this is United's fuckup, not his. I also hope he takes as many millions as he can get out of United's pocketbook, especially considering their CEO's immediate response.

sctb 9y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115911 and marked it off-topic.