OT A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight

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    Anyone see the videos of this?
     
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    I have. It is crazy.

    They were offering 800 each to 4 people (which sounds like plenty for me to go the next day personally) so why didn't they just have the 4 United employees rent a car and drive the 4.5 hours? Would have been a lot cheaper then this bad publicity.
     
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    The customer is not always right. Not on United Airlines, at least.

    On Sunday, the airline overbooked a flight from Chicago to Louisville and demanded that four randomly selected passengers reschedule on a later flight so that airline employees could take the seats. When one passenger refused to disembark, the airline called law-enforcement personnel, who boarded the plane, yanked the man out of his seat and dragged him away.

    The man -- reportedly a doctor -- screamed when the officers grabbed him and violently jerked him into the aisle. He then went limp as the officers dragged him down the aisle.

    "Oh my God, look at what you did to him!" a passenger gasped as the man was dragged past her.

    "This is horrible," said another passenger.

    "Good work, guys. Good work," a third passenger sarcastically called after them. "Way to go."

    "Please share this video," Audra D. Bridges wrote on Facebook. "We are on this flight. United airlines overbooked the flight. They randomly selected people to kick off so their standby crew could have a seat. This man is a doctor and has to be at the hospital in the morning. He did not want to get off. We are all shaky and so disgusted."

    United offered passengers $400 and a free night's stay in a hotel, the British newspaper The Independent reports. The airline upped the offer to $800 when it didn't get enough takers.

    The newspaper reports that the man who was forcibly removed "said he was a doctor and had to treat patients in Louisville early Monday."

    Later in the day, United Airlines tried to dodge responsibility for the incident.

    "Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked," a United spokesperson said. "After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation. Further details on the removed customer should be directed to authorities."

    http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2017/04/shocking_video_of_man_forcibly.html
     
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    United Airlines will never get a dime of my money...this is disgusting....I hope the Dr sues them into bankruptcy
     
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    No reason to sue. After spending two hours cleaning the blood from the plane they allowed the man back on.
     
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    They screwed me on a flight to San Diego a few years ago...booked online...when I got the ticket I was shocked because they messed up my return date which should have been 20 days later.....my ticket said I was to return the next day....I called for hours to straighten it out and they said they'd only fix it if I paid them 400 more bucks....I'd already bought the ticket for full price.....in the end I told them to shove the return ticket and took the train home instead for 90 bucks....fool me once....they said if I'd paid 45 extra bucks for flight insurance when I bought the ticket they'd have fixed it for free....fuck United Airlines!!
     
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    I got bumped off a flight once, they gave me double my ticket price, and put me on the next flight in first class an hour later. I felt like I hit the lottery at the time, I was like 21 and they cut me a check for $500, ballin out in first class drinking champagne and shit.

    I should have made them drag me down the aisle I guess.
     
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    What were the cops thinking? I can understand removing a passenger for being drunk or a jerk but removing someone because the airline wanted that seat for a flight attendant? There was no danger to the other passengers. This should not have been a law enforcement matter.
     
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    Did he still get his $200?

    Edit: Oh, I guess it was $800.
     
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    They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. This begs to disagree. Screw United.
     
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    I can see this becoming the next big thing in sports.

    "Sir, I'm sorry but we've overbooked our seating for today's playoff game. We're going to have to remove you from the Moda but will be give you a ticket to Disney on Ice as compensation."
     
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    This was a false flag operation.

    barfo
     
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    Fake Removes!
     
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    The problem is liberal snowflake cops who believe in love thy neighbor. Conservative Libertarian cops would have bribed him with a tax cut for the rich.
     
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    What a bunch of aholes.

    Surprised there were no takers on the $400 and a hotel night.

    I havent had many good interactions with airlines though. So this doesn't surprise me.
     
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    He still needs to sue the shit out of them
     
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    "Sorry sir, we overbooked we need this seat for HCP"
     
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