Fly the Friendly Skies

[Gusington]

I wish you and your family the best, Airboy.

Slash my family and I lived with my in-laws through one of the worst winters ever, 2013-2014, for a total of 8 months.

By the end of month eight I thought my father in law was going to slaughter all of us with an ax in our sleep.

[bayonetbrant]

[Gusington]

 

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I guess it was perfectly legal

[MetalDog]

My sympathies to you and your wife, airboy.  Hope you find us as entertaining as we do ourselves and take some of the stress away.

And I'm feeling for you, too, Slash.  My (ex)m-i-l lived with me 3 different times.  Including one time where my wife kicked me out of my own man-cave and gave it to her mother as her bedroom.

[Steelgrave]

Including one time where my wife kicked me out of my own man-cave and gave it to her mother as her bedroom.

Now that just ain't right......

[Sir Slash]

OUCH MD! Thanks Bob for the scrap of blanket, I may need it. And Gus, I may need to borrow that Rottweiler to eat my family.  :pullhair:

[MetalDog]

^Figured that might provide some solace in the times your house is overrun and there's no quiet place to be.

Including one time where my wife kicked me out of my own man-cave and gave it to her mother as her bedroom.

Now that just ain't right......

I didn't think so either.  But, by that time, I'd pretty much given up so...

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[Gusington]

Feel free to take the Rottweiler, Slash. The Wife and I just went to the window repair shop today to get the two screen windows and one screen door that he destroyed, repaired. He is great at wrecking things. Like marriages.

[Sir Slash]

Does he travel well? And how soon after eating does he pass human bones?

[JudgeDredd]

some alternate viewpoints

https://thepilotwifelife.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/i-know-youre-mad-at-united-but-thoughts-from-a-pilot-wife-about-flight-3411/

Well that just came across as condescending.

Also - I don't subscribe to this "the law can go unquestioned" thing. I understand in the US that means you stand a good chance of being shot and perhaps if I resided in the US, I might just do whatever the law says. But a badge does not give a person the right to "bully" you into doing something - the LAW does. I'm not saying in this case those security officers didn't act within the law - I don't know "their law"...I'm just saying that people (including this woman) saying that someone should do something just because someone with a badge said so doesn't fly with me (pun intended).

As for the article and the incident itself. Regardless of whether the airline was following their (or any other establishments) rules, their implementation of it was atrocious. As pointed out in several places I've seen, including here, there were other options for United to get their people to another place. Dragging a passenger from their paid for seat should not have been one of them.

The shite going on on the internet about it being because he was Asian or that he was "beaten" is just detracting from the awful mess that company created. Compounded by the owner tweeting that the guy was belligerent. Try and get me off my paid for seat without a good "security" reason and see how belligerent I get.

As for the memes - that's the internet at it's best. I've had some serious laughs from some of the memes I've seen.

Now    someone give up their posting rights or I'll choose someone 

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Munoz is backpedaling hard

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/united-dragged-passenger-video-chicago.html