Yankee you're an investor, invest in the fact that fungus is an excuse maker who will always wave the 2% exception in front of the 98% of the way things really work. But watch out, if he hits, the return on his bullshyte investment will be high. I bet anything that fungus is 40 years old and broke; a payday loan type guy.
Hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense. To add one to the UA debacle tread: the problem is that the airlines are the entitled ones not the pax. The airlines have so many people brainwashed into thinking we all gotta be sheeple, line up for the cattle car 'sperience & pay out the arse to do so. I mean, really, think about it....the company deliberately oversells its product to more customers than it can possibly accommodate, then refuses to support its product unless the customer acquiesces to the company demands which totally screw up the customer's purchased product. If the customer refuses to bend & scrape at the company's demands, the company enlists hired goons to literally beat the customer into bloody submission. Who's the entitled entity in that saga....? Not the way to run a bidness, and that's the understatement of the year.
This saga gets more twisted by the hour: The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past. Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville, Ky-bound flight at Chicago O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sex favors. According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation. The board’s probe into the criminal charges found that Dao became sexually interested in a male patient, Brian Case, who he gave a physical examination to, including a genital examination, and then eventually made the man his office manager. Case then quit that job due to “inappropriate” remarks made by Dao, who then pursued him and arranged to give him prescription drugs in exchange for sexual acts, the documents, filed last year, state. In 2004, Dao was convicted on a slew of felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud or deceit and was later placed on five years of supervised probation, the newspaper reported. Dao and co-defendant Case, identified in the documents by the state medical board as “Patient A,” were both indicted in the case. The medical board said that Dao had a sexual relationship with Case and supplied him with narcotics while Case was his patient. The two would often meet at hotel rooms. The two allegedly worked together to obtain prescription narcotics at several pharmacies over three years, according to reports. The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure permitted Dao to continue practicing medicine in 2015 under certain conditions, after he completed his probation and underwent psychological evaluations, the Courier-Journal reported. Dao went to medical school in Vietnam in the 1970s before moving to the US, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Dao, who previously worked at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown and once owned a medical practice, is a grandfather and father of five, the Daily Mail reported. His wife, Teresa Dao, who trained at Ho Chi Minh University in Saigon, is a pediatrician in Elizabethtown, according to the Daily Mail. Four of their five children are doctors. The bloody incident aboard Flight 3411 has caused a public relations disaster for United.
disagree, United should have kept giving money till people decided it was worth them for them to get off free market should have decided this one not shocked a liberal just wants to use force to solve the problem
True, maybe at $1000 there would have been some takers. Of course, what is this costing United now, haha, probably 10's of millions. United sucks bad, worst customer service ever! I have no doubt the flight attendants were being pricks about the whole thing leading up to this altercation. I'll also lump AA into this shiiiiit pile, I avoid these 2 airlines like the plague. However, that said, Dr. Dao was a moron. I mean, get off the focking plane man. This crap happens every day. Longer term we need more passenger rights, like if you buy a seat you should be guaranteed a seat, but that would mean more regulation, and I think that's frowned upon now.
this will liven this tread up [video=youtube;0b7iiMG2Hr8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7iiMG2Hr8[/video]
Anybody remember this from a few years back? [video=youtube;5YGc4zOqozo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo[/video] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars Same old stupid not-seeing-the-bigger-picture way of following "policy".
United doesn't have to offer you anything. When you buy your ticket you basically enter into a contract and an airline can kick you off for overbooking. Guy was a real loser convicted of selling drugs for sex and nearly losing medical license. I knew he was a freak when he was yelling to "please kill me". Funny the other couple that left willingly has $800 vouchers and didn't get beat up. But hey this guy can sue and make millions.
