easysurfer
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So, on a United flight, the seats got overbooked so 4 unlucky people get randomly selected to get booted off. One one of them refused, authorities called in, and roughs up the passenger before dragging him out.
Definitely goes in the "What the ..." category.
Definitely goes in the "What the ..." category.
Videos of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly dragged from his seat on a Sunday overbooked flight at O'Hare International Airport have been viewed more than 1 million times, and the airline's CEO on Monday called the incident "an upsetting event to all of us here at United."
The most common sense of all:In videos of the incident aboard a flight bound for Louisville, Ky., a man screams as security officers pull him from his seat. He then falls silent as they drag him by the hands, with his glasses askew and his shirt pulled up over his abdomen, down the aisle. Several passengers yell at the officers. "Oh my God, look at what you did to him," one woman yells.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-drags-passenger-0411-biz-20170410-story.htmlTravel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt questioned why United didn't simply offer a larger sum.
"Everybody has their price. If they had allowed the agent to offer a higher incentive, we may never have heard about this," said Harteveldt, founder of Atmosphere Research Group.