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Had snow on Thursday night.  On Sunday we already have mosquitos.  Bring on winter again.
 
http://gizmodo.com/hired-goon-drags-man-off-united-flight-after-he-refuses-1794168868#_ga=1.3697776.192767202.1491833907

On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United flight headed from Chicago to Louisville after he refused to give up his seat to a United employee who ?needed to be in Louisville? for a flight the following day, The Courier-Journal reports.

Passenger Audra Bridges, who uploaded a video of the incident to Facebook, told the newspaper that United initially offered customers $400 and a hotel room if they offered to take a flight the next day at 3pm. Nobody chose to give up the seat that they paid for, so United upped the ante to $800 after passengers boarded, announcing that the flight would not leave until four stand-by United employees had seats. After there were still no takers, a manager allegedly told passengers that a computer would select four passengers to be kicked off the flight.

The man in the video apparently claimed to be a doctor who had appointments with patients the next morning. After he refused to give up his seat, Bridges says a security official threw him ?against the armrest before dragging him out of the plane.? According to Bridges, the seemingly disoriented man came back onto the plane with blood on his face and the crew asked passengers to go back to the gate so that United crew could ?tidy up? the plane.
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The video of this is f*%$!%@ insane. What the hell.
 
It's not worth making it's own thread for, but it's just brutal that TSN1050, supposedly Toronto sports radio, has to put in an hour of the American syndicated Dan Patrick Show at 10am during one of the more exciting times in Toronto sports in recent memory.
 
Anyone looking for a good, self-contained podcast should give S-Town a try. If you got into Serial, this is another one from This American Life and is...pretty weird. It starts with the investigation of a murder in a small Alabama town and...well, it twists.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
http://gizmodo.com/hired-goon-drags-man-off-united-flight-after-he-refuses-1794168868#_ga=1.3697776.192767202.1491833907

On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United flight headed from Chicago to Louisville after he refused to give up his seat to a United employee who ?needed to be in Louisville? for a flight the following day, The Courier-Journal reports.

Passenger Audra Bridges, who uploaded a video of the incident to Facebook, told the newspaper that United initially offered customers $400 and a hotel room if they offered to take a flight the next day at 3pm. Nobody chose to give up the seat that they paid for, so United upped the ante to $800 after passengers boarded, announcing that the flight would not leave until four stand-by United employees had seats. After there were still no takers, a manager allegedly told passengers that a computer would select four passengers to be kicked off the flight.

The man in the video apparently claimed to be a doctor who had appointments with patients the next morning. After he refused to give up his seat, Bridges says a security official threw him ?against the armrest before dragging him out of the plane.? According to Bridges, the seemingly disoriented man came back onto the plane with blood on his face and the crew asked passengers to go back to the gate so that United crew could ?tidy up? the plane.
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The video of this is f*%$!%@ insane. What the hell.
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That's f'd up.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
http://gizmodo.com/hired-goon-drags-man-off-united-flight-after-he-refuses-1794168868#_ga=1.3697776.192767202.1491833907

On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United flight headed from Chicago to Louisville after he refused to give up his seat to a United employee who ?needed to be in Louisville? for a flight the following day, The Courier-Journal reports.

Passenger Audra Bridges, who uploaded a video of the incident to Facebook, told the newspaper that United initially offered customers $400 and a hotel room if they offered to take a flight the next day at 3pm. Nobody chose to give up the seat that they paid for, so United upped the ante to $800 after passengers boarded, announcing that the flight would not leave until four stand-by United employees had seats. After there were still no takers, a manager allegedly told passengers that a computer would select four passengers to be kicked off the flight.

The man in the video apparently claimed to be a doctor who had appointments with patients the next morning. After he refused to give up his seat, Bridges says a security official threw him ?against the armrest before dragging him out of the plane.? According to Bridges, the seemingly disoriented man came back onto the plane with blood on his face and the crew asked passengers to go back to the gate so that United crew could ?tidy up? the plane.
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The video of this is f*%$!%@ insane. What the hell.
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Fly the unfriendly skies, with United!

This, just a few weeks after they got major PR backlash for not allowing a couple teenagers in leggings to board a flight.
 
bustaheims said:
This, just a few weeks after they got major PR backlash for not allowing a couple teenagers in leggings to board a flight.
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I'm all for jumping on outrage directed towards corporations because corporations are usually trash, but man was that one blown out of proportion.

In case anybody missed it, it came out after everybody was already upset that the teenagers were flying with free staff passes or something, and those passes have different rules towards the dress code than a regular, paying passenger does. That seems fair.

But yeah, it was a huge PR backlash and United handled it pretty poorly.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
I'm all for jumping on outrage directed towards corporations because corporations are usually trash, but man was that one blown out of proportion.

In case anybody missed it, it came out after everybody was already upset that the teenagers were flying with free staff passes or something, and those passes have different rules towards the dress code than a regular, paying passenger does. That seems fair.

But yeah, it was a huge PR backlash and United handled it pretty poorly.
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Yeah. To me, it's less about right or wrong in the leggings situation (though, I'd say their dress code probably needs to be updated), but more about how poorly they handled it and how recent it was. You'd think they'd be on high alert to avoid negative PR situations right now, but, here we are.
 
United isn't totally to blame here, either. The airport police obviously handled this very poorly. I was recently on a WestJet flight where the police had to remove someone from the plane and was extremely impressed with how they handled the situation.
 
Bullfrog said:
United isn't totally to blame here, either. The airport police obviously handled this very poorly. I was recently on a WestJet flight where the police had to remove someone from the plane and was extremely impressed with how they handled the situation.
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Only 1 person had to be removed on a flight to Thunder Bay? 
 
Even before you get to the actual humanity of the situation, what possible need could the airline have for those seats that justified this just from a public relations standpoint?
 
Nik the Trik said:
Even before you get to the actual humanity of the situation, what possible need could the airline have for those seats that justified this just from a public relations standpoint?
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Seriously. They should be able to plan that they'll need seats to transport staff to other flights, or have a standing policy that they hold 4 seats until it's confirmed they don't need them.
 
Frank E said:
Bullfrog said:
United isn't totally to blame here, either. The airport police obviously handled this very poorly. I was recently on a WestJet flight where the police had to remove someone from the plane and was extremely impressed with how they handled the situation.
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Only 1 person had to be removed on a flight to Thunder Bay?
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We have our good days. :)
 
Nik the Trik said:
Even before you get to the actual humanity of the situation, what possible need could the airline have for those seats that justified this just from a public relations standpoint?
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I don't know the context of who/why they had to ship people out but they have something like a 10 hour landover before pilots (not sure if that policy is included for cabin workers too) can fly.  If one of the passengers was the pilot they may need to get them there so they have sufficient rest to legally get on their flight.

But yes, there really isn't any justification.
 
bustaheims said:
Nik the Trik said:
So looks like 18 year old me is going to be really disappointed with 35 year old me and my lack of partaking in his dream:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marijuana-legal-bill-1.4069178
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So, you're not going to go out a buy a pack of joints for the weekend? Yeah, me neither.
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You know, I probably will go buy some once I'm able to just so I can say I did after thinking it'd never come to pass but I can't see myself actually indulging.
 
Nik the Trik said:
bustaheims said:
Nik the Trik said:
So looks like 18 year old me is going to be really disappointed with 35 year old me and my lack of partaking in his dream:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marijuana-legal-bill-1.4069178
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So, you're not going to go out a buy a pack of joints for the weekend? Yeah, me neither.
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You know, I probably will go buy some once I'm able to just so I can say I did after thinking it'd never come to pass but I can't see myself actually indulging.
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I bought some stock, does that count?
 
Nik the Trik said:
You know, I probably will go buy some once I'm able to just so I can say I did after thinking it'd never come to pass but I can't see myself actually indulging.
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Sounds about right. Depending on how they're distributed, I'll probably do the same, have one night of reliving that period of my life, and consider that enough.
 
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