Although we’re not exactly sure what vulgarities were said over the intercom aboard JetBlue 1052, we do know that flight attendant Steven Slater, 39 had had enough!
According to news reports, Slater cursed at the passenger on the plane’s public address, announced he was leaving, grabbed a couple of beers from the galley and slid down the emergency chute that he had deployed.
He apparently went straight home to have sex with his boyfriend…which is where the police found him and charged him with felony criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
This entire ordeal began before the plane had even taken off in takeoff in Pittsburgh, “when a woman verbally abused Slater as he intervened in her squabble with another passenger for space in the overhead luggage bin.”
The woman slammed the overhead bin into his forehead, opening a cut, Turman said. Tensions flared anew on the ground in New York when the woman attempted to retrieve her bag before the plane came to a complete stop, the lawyer said.
Although Slater may have taken it to the extreme, he has captured the sympathy of frustrated travelers and airline industry workers.
“He’s in a lot less trouble if he gets a jury of regular flyers,” Fordham Law Professor Jim Cohen said.
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