United lost me
May 28, 2010 - 9:29am
A Michigan woman who fell asleep on a United Express flight to Philadelphia says she woke up and was shocked to find she was alone on the plane.
Ginger McGuire said no one had awakened her when the plane landed more than three hours earlier. She said she paced the aisle for about 15 minutes early Tuesday until the locked door opened and police demanded identification.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/28/woman-asleep-on-plane-sues.html#ixzz0pEM1gCKW
Didja see how she's suing?
If she didn't wake up when everybody was disembarking, and slept a further 3 hours after that, maybe she needs to cut back on those pills.
I fell asleep watching the CBC news the other night. Any idea how much I could get in damages?
A court would only assess damages if you watched the whole thing, Unionist.
Thanks for the tip!
United lost me when they fired Brian Clough 44 days into the season in 1974.
Beyond absurd but completely expected from such a litigious society, I wonder just how much she is hoping to collect? And whether this starts a trend, I can see it now, people pretending to sleep with the hope they will be forgotten.
To be fair, though, how do you miss someone sleeping in their seat? Flight attendants leaving the plane didn't notice a human body still present? If the body had been dead, everyone would be wondering what's up with the airline, and you can bet there'd be a lawsuit, national attention, and a lot of jokes and indignation about it. Not saying that she should, but I would think that she has a good chance of winning.
Maybe they tried to wake her up, and couldn't? Remember that french woman who took a bunch of sleeping pills, and she didn't wake up while her dog ate her face. So maybe they made sure she was breathing okay, and left her.
Hey, some nut just biked from Toronto to my place. He's fine.
I think there are some security and safety implications here, and the airline is certainly culpable to some extent.
United lost me when they fired Brian Clough 44 days into the season in 1974.
This story lends a whole new meaning to the Damned United!
Hey, some nut just biked from Toronto to my place. He's fine.
If you go to his Facebook page, he's posted an awesome pic of you and Rebecca.
He should reach Sarnia before nightfall.
I think there are some security and safety implications here, and the airline is certainly culpable to some extent.
True ...
Wasn't there a story of a little boy long ago who was left on a plane?
How many of us would sue? Seriously, she knew where she was and she knew that she had been sleeping, this is not the stuff of nightmares, wouldn't a sane response be, "oops"?
How many of us would sue? Seriously, she knew where she was and she knew that she had been sleeping, this is not the stuff of nightmares, wouldn't a sane response be, "oops"?
I think my first response would be to see if they also forgot to remove that trolley with the little tiny bottles of booze.
He should reach Sarnia before nightfall.
He'll be wet. It just monsooned here, and if he didn't get soaked by this rain, he probably caught another localized cloudburst. No lightning though.
I started to talk to him about the drumlin fields of Woodstock and would have continued on and on and on about other geological features he was about to cross, but Rebecca West quickly and firmly saved him by forbidding me.
How many of us would sue? Seriously, she knew where she was and she knew that she had been sleeping, this is not the stuff of nightmares, wouldn't a sane response be, "oops"?
I think my first response would be to see if they also forgot to remove that trolley with the little tiny bottles of booze.
lol
He should reach Sarnia before nightfall.
He'll be wet. It just monsooned here, and if he didn't get soaked by this rain, he probably caught another localized cloudburst. No lightning though.
I started to talk to him about the drumlin fields of Woodstock and would have continued on and on and on about other geological features he was about to cross, but Rebecca West quickly and firmly saved him by forbidding me.
Like me, he's seriously nerdy - he would have enjoyed hearing about the geologic features of Oxford County.
He technically arrived in Sarnia about 5 minutes ago though he's got maybe 2 dozen k to go ... I didn't see any clouds in his pics, though he wouldn't have taken the iPhone out if it were raining.
Tell him to tag the pictures of Tommy and Rebecca - I wanna see them too!
Tell him to tag the pictures of Tommy and Rebecca - I wanna see them too!
I sent him a message about this - he'll be arriving at his folks' within the hour, I think.
Should we say something remotely on-topic? If he'd flown to Sarnia, it would have taken 45 minutes. But I don't think you can fall asleep on those little prop planes - last time I flew on one of those, it was white knuckles for me all the way to NY, the way those planes dipsy-doodle all over the place.
A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Jessica Cabot, of Courtenay, B.C., was on a United Airlines flight from Vancouver to Jacksonville, Fla., April 7 to join her fiancé when the plane made a scheduled stop in Chicago before dawn.
She was then supposed to be guided to her connecting flight to Florida.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/05/13/bc-blind-woman-plane-cabot.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g4:r2:c0:b0#ixzz0phkgR3uP
As a child my Swing-a-ma-Jig was broken - tossed me around like a ragdoll in a Cessna during some extreme turbulence. The only way I can sleep is by either leaving dozens of small motors under my bed to simulate violent motion or chartering a prop plane for my naps. It is a tough life, but no one said that life was fair.
That's odd. Some days, it takes a prop plane to wake me up. Maybe we could do a shared leasing arrangement?
Maybe not, but my lease offer is fair.
I'll accept this lease offer...but, dude, we totally need some wicked sweet team tshirts!
Could those be in tweed, perhaps?
I'll accept this lease offer...but, dude, we totally need some wicked sweet team tshirts!
Like, what did you have in mind, dude?
A new babble superpower/fashion trend has been born...like, totally crunchy raaad.
Every parent's dream, uh, nightmare:
Delta Air Lines is blaming a paperwork mix-up for sending two children to wrong destinations.
The children were connecting through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Tuesday as part of the airline's unaccompanied minor program, Delta said Thursday.
Because of a "paperwork swap," a boy ended up in Cleveland instead of Boston while a girl was sent to Boston instead of Cleveland, the airline said.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/10/delta-airlines010.html#ixzz0qTUqmcsg
A New Brunswick music professor's days of travelling the globe and playing his lute may have come to abrupt end after its instrument was snapped in half by Air Canada.
Michel Cardin, a music professor at the University of Moncton, said he is wondering whether he'll be able to play his lute again after Air Canada broke his instrument on a recent trip.
When he opened up the case after returning to Moncton, the lute was snapped in two.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/06/11/nb-lute-music-professor-629.html#ixzz0qYQjIlEZ
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/28/woman-asleep-on-plane-sues.html#ixzz0qYpsa4rm