If their goal was to avoid a stink, this wouldn't have happened. Unless it's proven otherwise, I believe the initial choice was done quickly and by protocol. They don't have time to waste on thinking. I don't believe anyone at United did some sort of profiling analysis and specifically chose him. It just happened. Failure to bend protocol, to adapt to a 'situation' and do what's right, is what happened next.

I have never seen an airlines randomly pick a passenger who is not from the departing city. Forcing this guy to stay over night in Chicago at a layover on his return from LA to Tennessee is ridiculous and not part of any protocol I've ever seen. You? The airlines prefer that you go home and sleep in your own bed if possible.

PS - then there is the question of the now-stranded passenger's checked baggage (if any), and rules that passengers are to be in the same plane as their own baggage for security reasons. How did United handle that?

 

Ok, this thread is about a "war on cops" but what the hell is this...? The Alabama congress has allowed private organizations to form their own police forces. First, and the organization that requested the law, Briarwood Church. 4000 members and a K-12 school. Does every employer get a police force - guns, allowed to arrest, a jail, ... Weird.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/us/al...ce-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool


PS: maybe religion and policing are completely different in Birmingham, AL than in my neighborhood.

The same week the bill is passed, a fight, gunfire and wounded children at a church event - in Birmingham area.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/us/alabama-carnival-shooting/index.html

 

The Alabama congress has allowed private organizations to form their own police forces. First, and the organization that requested the law, Briarwood Church.

Hey, our friends on the right won't have any problem with this. They didn't call the new law 'sharia', so all's good.

 

I have never seen an airlines randomly pick a passenger who is not from the departing city.

I flew on business for years and logged so many miles that free trips on frequent flyer miles didn't really sound like a benefit. In all those trips I never saw an airline eject a seated passenger. If they needed to open seats, they would just keep raising the offer and that always worked quickly. This was usually handled in the terminal but I've seen it post-boarding on the plane also. The first offer was often barely worth it (next flight out, night in a hotel) but once the offer rose to include a free round-trip in the future, there were more people jumping out of their seats than were needed.

 

I'm waiting for the police investigation of this vicious attack. You can't trust just video.

 

I'm waiting for the police investigation of this vicious attack.

Illegals attacking an American - damn Canadians.

 

Another airline confrontation with threats from both sides.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/22/us/american-airlines-video-confrontation-trnd/index.html

When will it all end?

 

http://globalnews.ca/news/3393855/law-stops-michigan-police-from-sex-with-prostitutes/

Undercover police officers in Michigan will no longer be able to have sex with prostitutes who they’re investigating, under a new law that was unanimously approved by the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week.

 

http://globalnews.ca/news/3393855/law-stops-michigan-police-from-sex-with-prostitutes/

I'd like to see that expense report.

Detective: Here's my expense report for last week's activity on the Smith investigation.
Captain: Eight times in one week? How much information did she have?
Detective: That was just Sunday! Look at Monday!

 

I'd like to see that expense report.

Detective: Here's my expense report for last week's activity on the Smith investigation.
Captain: Eight times in one week? How much information did she have?
Detective: That was just Sunday! Look at Monday!

Detective: And by the way... I need you to authorize my cialis refill for this week

 

That one got away.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2017/04/man_steals_from_walmart_runs_f.html

A man suspected of stealing from a Walmart store fell to his death after running from police Sunday in Hood River, a sergeant said.

Edwin Charge Jr., 20, ran through traffic on Interstate 84 and through a residential area before falling off a cliff, said Sgt. Don Cheli of the Hood River Police Department. Two other suspects were jailed, he said.

Cheli said police were never in a foot chase with Charge — a Goldendale, Washington, resident — and that officers didn't chase him off the cliff. The fall was accidental, Cheli said.

This one didn't. (from a few years ago)

 

This could be interesting, a 4 part series by Arts& Entertainment Networks on the (according to nsaspook) tin hat conspiracy of the Nixon created, "War on Drugs, starting with the (according to nsaspook) completely fictitious quote attributed to Ehrlichman: Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” "all told through the firsthand accounts of former CIA and DEA officers,"

http://www.aenetworks.com/article/h...ate-limited-doc-series-americas-war-drugs-618

I guess the only reasonable conclusion is that the A&E Network got a bunch of CIA and DEA officers to lie on camera just for entertainment purposes. After all, "Entertainment" is their name.

 

I'm a 1000% against the 'War on Drugs(freedom/rights)' as run by the DEA/CIA having seen some of the people and visited some of the places where the local drug-lords have formed unions with our government in the name of anti-communism during the Cold War. There is no doubt that people on a personal level profited from the drug trade. (We had guys in the military buy a few hundred dollars of drugs in Thailand and then trade those drugs for cars and motorcycles in the states in the 70's/80's)

The War on Drugs pre-dates Nixon and hippies and seems more tied to Puritan "reasoning".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States

Alcohol Prohibition.

 

... visited some of the places where the local drug-lords have formed unions with our government in the name of anti-communism during the Cold War.

We are in the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mode. I don't think we will ever get out of that line of thinking. That certainly leads to "friends becoming enemies." History is replete with that human endeavor.

Was that "Reefer Madness" trailer entertainment or propaganda? Oh wait, that can be said of a lot of video out there. News ... propagnda ... entertainment. Discrimination is the order of the day for all inputs. AS, BS, MS, PHD ... All $hit, Bull $hit, More $hit, Piled High and Deep. There is no escaping the incredulity of mankind.

Enjoy your day.

 

$$$$$$$$$$$

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ual-passenger-idUSKBN17T2WM

United Airlines (UAL.N) and the passenger who was dragged from a Chicago flight earlier this month have reached a settlement for an undisclosed sum, they said on Thursday, in the carrier's latest step to contain damage from an incident that sparked international outrage.
...
United said in a separate statement that it was pleased to reach "an amicable resolution of the unfortunate incident that occurred aboard flight 3411."

 

$$$$$$$$$$$

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ual-passenger-idUSKBN17T2WM

My mom always said to me that I had to wash my hands after touching money... what a nightmare!

 

My mom always said to me that I had to wash my hands after touching money... what a nightmare!

Money is every bit as filthy as public door knobs. I carry wipes in my car and clean my hands every time I leave a public building. Every time I arrive at home, the first move is to wash my hands. It seems to be working. I think I've had two colds in the last 30 years.

 

Money is every bit as filthy as public door knobs. I carry wipes in my car and clean my hands every time I leave a public building. Every time I arrive at home, the first move is to wash my hands. It seems to be working. I think I've had two colds in the last 30 years.

I suggest you never visit Argentina... dudes down there greet each other kissing cheeks! ... ain't that so, @atferrari ?

 

I suggest you never visit Argentina... dudes down there greet each other kissing cheeks! ... ain't that so, @atferrari ?

Yes. What that means according to you?

 

Argentinians have clean cheeks?