Man forcibly dragged off United Airlines flight after overbooking

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33 points·Johnny555··5 comments

Only slightly worse than the time I watched United throw a guy off a plane for a) complaining that the FA had put someone else's bag in the place in the overhead from which he had just temporarily removed his bag in order to get his iPad out and then b) asking (politely) for the FA's name so he could post it on Twitter.

What they should have done was keep offering better and better incentives someone would have eventually taken it.

Surely they could have found a price cheaper than this bad PR.

Why is this here

possibly only to show that in a day an age where people record the police that every business needs to be wary of their actions being recorded by the public.

This news is on Drudge and Reddit, the former is likely to cause United to take notice a lot faster and spread its embarrassment further.

all this so that some airline employees could fly and better yet the guy dragged off was put back on the plane and has a concussion

Still curious how long before we see laws attempting to stop the public from recording private places like an airplane or similar. it has failed so far to prevent the public from recording the police but this is a lot of power outside the control of the authorities and it has revealed some ugly truths about our world

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