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2019-01-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

A Time For Swine or How To Get Booted From A United Airline Flight

[Breitbart] Airline employees booted a woman off a recent United Airlines flight traveling from Las Vegas to Newark after she went on a tirade about being placed in the middle seat between "two big pigs."

"Oh my goodness! I don’t know how I’m going to do this for the next four hours!" the woman yelled into her phone, according to a Facebook video of the incident which went viral last week and gained more than 2.7 million views as of Tuesday.

"This is just impossible ’cause they’re squishing me. Like, just unbelievable. At least they’ll keep me warm," she continued. "I can’t sit here because they’re both so big on left and right. I can’t even sit here."

Norma Rodgers, one of the passengers sitting next to her, decided to record the woman’s tirade on video after getting fed up with her seatmate’s fat-shaming rant.

Rodgers, a prominent nurse who used to be head of the New Jersey State Nurses Association, finally had enough of the woman’s complaining, telling her, "Bitch, please! Okay?"

"I can’t do this! I eat salad!" the woman retorted, before Rodgers flagged down a flight attendant for assistance.

"Excuse me, can you find her another seat? Because I will not be verbally abused by this bitch or anybody else," Rodgers told the flight attendant.

The attendant then requested the woman stand in the back of the plane to allow the cabin crew to check for other available seats.

Other passengers then confronted the woman over comments as she made her way to the back of the plane.

"You should be ashamed of yourself, madam. What you’re doing is so terrible, you should be ashamed of yourself," one passenger said.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-30 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Why I avoid flying at any other inconvenience posed by alternate travel means. Doesn't help that the airlines have shrunk seats over the years to stuff more people into steerage. Institutional capture has prevented the FAA from exercising their powers in allowing the creation of a dangerous safety situation in case of emergency evacuation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-30 06:30|| 2019-01-30 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 My weekly travel ended years ago but even then the great airline shrinkage was well underway, luckily I'm fairly large with sharp elbows so I survived my sojourns in the middle seat. When you fly a lot you don't get stuck in the middle often, thank goodness.

Posted by AlanC 2019-01-30 07:57|| 2019-01-30 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 ...How can they mistreat that poor woman like that - she eats salad!!!

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-01-30 10:58|| 2019-01-30 10:58|| Front Page Top

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