UPDATE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13: Video of Steven Slater's Slide! - TMZ says this video footage of Slater's slide to freedom was obtained by the folks at WNBC in New York and was captured by surveillance cameras at JFK airport on Monday. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Several readers have written in to suggest how much Steven Slater looks like a scene stealer in the movie "Airplane." We did a little research and found a picture of Johnny, played by Steven Stucker. At right, a picture of Johnny. Below, Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. Hmmm.
You have to wonder how long Jet Blue flight attendant Steven "You've Hit My Last Nerve!" Slater had been thinking about this one. If it just happened on the spur of the moment, he's got quite the flare for the dramatic. We think he probably fantasized about this one for a while though. Here's the basics of the story: Stevie was working on a Jet Blue flight from Pittsburgh to JFK in New York and the plane was landing when a female passenger got up WAY too early to get her bag from the overhead compartment. (You know the type,) When Slater approached the passenger she cursed him out and somehow struck him in the head with a bag. When she refused to apologize, he got on the plane's PA system and cursed out everyone, then grabbed some beers and his luggage, opened the door and activated the emergency slide which he jumped on and used to scoot of the plane and into the terminal. Authorities did catch up to him, but that's one flight those passengers will never forget!
Here's more from NBC New York (video clip from PIX 11 below):
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UPDATE: Several readers have written in to suggest how much Steven Slater looks like a scene stealer in the movie "Airplane." We did a little research and found a picture of Johnny, played by Steven Stucker. At right, a picture of Johnny. Below, Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. Hmmm.
Here's more from NBC New York (video clip from PIX 11 below):
A flight attendant ran out of patience on a plane that just landed at JFK on Monday afternoon, so he allegedly cursed a blue streak over the p.a. system, grabbed some beers, pulled the emergency chute, slid down and ran from the plane, sources said.Airline Steward at JFK Pulls Emergency Chute, Flies Coop | NBC New York
Jet Blue employee Steven Slater, 38, was working on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to Kennedy Airport, which landed at around 12 p.m., when he got into a verbal altercation with a passenger, law-enforcement sources said. Following a heated exchange, the flight attendant told off the entire plane on the public address system, activated an emergency chute near the back of the plane and jumped down the evacuation slide and ran for it.
The argument began when one of the 100 passengers on the flight, got up early to get her luggage from an overhead compartment, according to sources. Slater told the passenger to sit back down -- but, as he approached, the woman continued to pull her belongings down and struck him in the head with her bag, authorities said.
Slater asked for an apology but the woman cursed him out, saying in effect "go f--k yourself" and calling him a "mo-fo," according to law enforcement sources who are still sorting out the specifics. Then Slater got on the flight's announcement system and allegedly cursed out everyone on the plane -- especially the person who mouthed off to him, according to law enforcement sources.
When his tirade was through, he then took a some beers from the galley and pulled the emergency chute and slid off the Embraer 190 plane. According to police sources, he threw his luggage down first and said something to the effect of "there goes 28 years," before he took the plunge. After getting down the slide, Slater took off into the terminal, law-enforcement sources said.
The steward was "having a bad day," sources said.
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Is this a cry for attention or just stupidity? With $100 worth of cosmetics in your purse, it could go either way for Ms. Giuliani, couldn't it?
Ever wonder what happens to beauty queens after their pageant days are over? Just look what happened to Miss USA 1992, Shannon Marketic.
There is all sorts of stupid in this story! First, you have the typically nerdy kid, Trevor Miller, needing cash to play Internet video games, so he steals a credit card. Of course, the police are able to trace the stolen cards by the purchases Miller made right to his home in Buffalo Grove, a Chicago suburb. Once there though, the kid is the least of their concern as officers find pot growing at his home. The kid's pot? No, the operation allegedly belongs to Miller's parents, James, 52, and Cindy, 50, who were both charged with unlawful production of marijuana. In the end, everyone gets arrested and we can be pretty sure that Thanksgiving at the Miller home will be a little strained this year.
How awful must the kids in your class be to be drunk on your way in to teach in the morning? We're not excusing what Twin Cities middle school teacher Sarah Bjerke did, but you have to wonder. And she wasn't just allegedly a little tipsy: Bjerke reportedly blew a .133 % BAC, nearly twice the legal limit.
Another day, another hot looking female teacher accused of sexing up one of her male students. This time, the story comes to us from Christiansburg, VA where the teacher, Diana Eckes Canter, is charged with 8 counts of "custodial sexual intercourse with a minor." Does that mean she was wearing a ring of keys on her belt when they had sex? Or maybe she was sprinkling sawdust on some vomit while they did it? Any lawyers out there know what "custodial sex" is?
Kids these days! This one reportedly got into an argument with her mother, and after thinking it over for a couple of days, then allegedly put some Lysol cleaner into her Kool-Aid. No so clever, but it did fool mom who drank some of it and then called 911.
