So this isn’t sports related really, except for the fact that a sports blogger I follow on Twitter was on the flight in question, and brought it to my attention. After a Jet Blue flight had landed at Kennedy airport, a flight attendant shouted out a couple of f-bombs over the intercom, deployed the emergency slide and exited the plane, announcing his resignation as he left the terminal. The attendant was apparently fed up with the behavior of a rude passenger. From the New York Daily News:
“To the passenger who called me a m—f–er, f— you,” flight attendant Steven Slater ranted over the intercom, passengers said.
“I’ve been in the business 28 years. I’ve had it. That’s it.”
Now THAT was a resignation.
After activating the emergency exit and sliding down to the tarmac, Slater returned to pick up his bag and rode the AirTrain to his car parked the the JetBlue lot, cops said.
Slater stripped off his company tie and flung it off the train as bemused passengers watched at the Terminal Five stop.
Port Authority police arrested Slater at his home in nearby Belle Harbor, Queens. Charges were pending.
Here’s an eyewitness account by Phil Catelinet, who was returning from a sports blogger get together in Pittsburgh.
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Fed-up JetBlue flight attendant drops intercom F-bomb, screams, ‘I’ve had it,’ bolts plane [New York Daily News]
Just a little excitement on my flight today [Phil's Occasional Musings]
