Three passengers have been arrested after an incident that unfolded at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday night, where they assaulted five Spirit Airlines employees.
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It will be interesting to learn the inciting factors. Regardless, I hope the assailants are prohibited from flying spirit and from using FLL in the future.
@ Frankie
One does not, as has been recently demonstrated, need inciting factors to have a riot these days.
A few delightful racially tinged comments already. Lucky, you have some real winners that frequent these threads.
Somehow the abhorrent behavior of some black people (2 maybe in this video?) is somehow reflective of an entire group of 40 million people and/or a broader social movement in way that seldom happens with individual white people behaving poorly.
It's the cousin of the "lone shooter/deranged individual" versus "terrorist" distinction we often see drawn unquestioningly in the media depending on what the person looks like.
This video reinforces so many stereotypes that it requires no further comment.
Since my previous comment was deleted by the thought police, let me be more specific. My reference to "the usual trash that flies Spirit" had NOTHING to do with the race of the people involved. ANYONE who acts in such a manner, regardless of race, is trash in my book, and belong behind bars and out of civilized society.
@ John
Thank you!
@ Airfarer
Surely, you must be referring to this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S0gxYHHbI
For the record, I was not referring to your comment. There were a few others that have been deleted that we're clearly not referencing their status as Spirit customers, but their race.
While we need to realize there are jerks out there regardless of their races, there is a tendency for a double standard these days (if white women have a fist in public, people will not hesitate before labelling them with the racially charged term "Karens").
An airline that appeals to the lowest common denominator of society. Not at all surprising.
@ John +1
@Jesse, if the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-WWII American president would have been hanged "and out of civilized society."
Flight was scheduled to leave at 9:17pm, left at 10:36pm. Scheduled to arrive at 11:59pm, actual was 1:11am. Maybe they ran out of middle seats? Or just a communications problem: FLL and PHL sound alike.
When you charge Greyhound’s fares damn in their customers don’t show up at your gate.
@Jesse
I think sometimes the policing here in this comment section is way overboard. last week I playfully joked to a commenter who did not understand "I can't even" with the word "boomer" and an explanation of the phrase, it was censored.
I fully support a healthy comment section as before there were some truly vile things posted here before policing, but unnoticed blocking and removal of posts is really annoying. should be a flagging system instead of an approval system.
Since the DHS has a no fly list and terrorist screening data base, trash like this should be placed on it , in addition to several months cleaning toilets on Rikers Island
Well. I have no words other than disgusting. These Employees show up to work in an AIRPORT during a PANDEMIC not because it's fun, but because they have bills to pay. These passengers are disgusting.
Surprised you never posted on the Delta hail incident (with crazy pictures):
https://t.co/fg74u4Ta4u?amp=1
https://twitter.com/billritter7/status/1280334805423591426?s=20
Wow,
Glad that I live, NOT THERE! And I will not be in any hurry to visit Philadelphia in the next ten years.
I'm sorry, just can't get past BCSO statement: "The defendants intentionally struck the victims against their will..."
Against their will? Was there a safe-word involved? Who gets struck by choice?