Move over, Captain Sullenberger! America's got a new hero of the skies.
I'm sure everyone has heard the news about that flight attendant who, after an excessively rude passenger cursed him out, got on the intercom and thanked those passengers who were not rude, then grabbed two beers from the galley and escaped through the plane's emergency chute. He was arrested "in a sexual embrace" at his home a few hours later.
When I first heard about that, I seriously thought "This guy is the man!" Apparently, so did most everyone else in America. Public opinion is overwhelmingly sympathetic with him, and I'm sure that this will factor into whatever punishment he ends up receiving.
I think that it was his grabbing two beers, reportedly saying "there goes 28 years" as he slid down the chute, and then being arrested in the midst of getting his last jollies before jail, that really makes this guy's story resonate with America. He may have lost his cool and flipped out, but he did it in style.
I for one love it, and hope he gets a very lenient sentence.
Update: Are things not quite as they first seemed?
Jim Carrey parodies Matthew McConaughey Lincoln ads
10 years ago
I agree that Steven Slater is a hero. In a time when we have to buckle down and work harder to stabilize the economy after it was destabilized by rich assholes who are bad at math, this man had the balls to stand up and say "I'm mad as hell, and I am not going to take it anymore!"
ReplyDeleteI think it was a woman passenger who cussed him out and continued to unload luggage after he asked her to stop which led to it hitting him in the head. He asked her to apologize, and she outright refused which led to his shenanigans.