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

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  1. MarAzul

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    Damn! I hate to fly because I don't like dealing with Airlines or TSA.

    But imagine the bank and the fun of getting into a ruckus like that guy. Whoo! Looks like a hoot!
     
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    If you're traveling for business, it would probably damage your career as well as inconvenience anyone who relies on you.

    If you're traveling on vacation, your whole vacation is basically fucked and your cancellations would cost more than $800.

    The bumps were for 4 United employees who they already knew needed to fly, so they should have simply not allowed so many people to board. It's not rocket science.

    Since they blew that, they should have simply flown their employees on Delta.

    The clown dragging the guy off the plane is likely to lose his job as cover for United, and United will be sued for lots of $.

    Someone trying to physically drag me off a plane I paid to be on would likely incur injury in the process.
     
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    Imagine that!
     
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    TSA is a real pain in the ass and the immigration lines are ridiculous if you travel internationally and return home.
     
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    In Oregon they could fight a duel. In Washington D.C. they could filibuster.

    (I just got here from the main OT page.)
     
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    If I was on that plane, I would of jumped at the chance to get a free flight voucher, $800, and a night in a hotel in order to fly out the next day instead.
     
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    David Dao, passenger removed from United flight, a doctor with troubled past

    David Dao, the Elizabethtown doctor who was yanked off an overbooked United Airlines flight Sunday, has had a troubled history in Kentucky.

    Dao, who went to medical school in Vietnam in the 1970s before moving to the U.S., was working as a pulmonologist in Elizabethtown when he was arrested in 2003 and eventually convicted of drug-related offenses after an undercover investigation, according to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure last June. The documents allege that he was involved in fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances and was sexually involved with a patient who used to work for his practice and assisted police in building a case against him.

    Dao was convicted of multiple felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud or deceit in November 2004 and was placed on five years of supervised probation in January 2005. He surrendered his medical license the next month.

    The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure permitted Dao to resume practicing medicine in 2015 under certain conditions.

    http://www.courier-journal.com/stor.../?hootPostID=d36ec6c0be57d7c0080839c4936d4285
     
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    Why would anyone care about his past?
     
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    Hi, you must be new to how the press works.
     
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    I knew I recognized that scream from somewhere! Skip to 0:55--uncanny!

     
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    Let the smear campaign commence!

    How is this relevant at all to what happened?
     
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    Do you think it's the airline digging up his past to make him look bad? Or just lovely sites like Buzzfeed or Gawker doing what they do?
     
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    Honestly, if it is an airport security guard, why isn't the airport getting more heat?
     
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    Geez! The guy gets dragged off the plane, now the press is going to smear him some more.
    Does shit like this happen everywhere or just Chicago?

    "The Chicago Department of Aviation has placed the security officer who dragged Dao from his seat on leave"

    My first reaction to this was, what the hell sort of police force would act as the muscle for an Airline?

    United says they will investigate. (Headquarters in Chicago)
    Some local entity in Illinois says they will investigate.

    Seems to me it is time for the US department of Justice take a peek. It reeks.
     
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    This issue is totally on United Airlines. They only over book a flight by having an inadequate data manager in the reservation system or they fail to properly use the system. Such as trying to make room for Staff on a fulling booked flight. There is no legal function for the police of any entity in resolving the situation UA created by mismanagement. So I can't see an adequate correction coming from any investigation conducted by any entity in Chicago.
     
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