Imaginedvl said:
torok said:
The point is that United had ZERO right to ask him to exit the plane. When companies overbook, they can block people from boarding, but they can't remove the ones that already boarded. So, if the plane is full and an extra guy tries to board, they may deny it. They can't remove someone so he can board. Also, there was no extra paying passenger: they wanted to fly their workers. And they intended to remove a PAYING customer to do so.
You're also trying to defend them while they removed him with such brutality that he was knocked out. They can't do that. Do you see any of the security guys hurt? No, they are fine. The guy is a bloody mess. It's clear that they used disproportional force to remove an old dude when they had no right to do so. The guy is 69 year old and they could never, ever, hurt him like that. And they tried to argue that a 69-year old man posed such a threat to security guys that were significantly stronger and younger than him so they had to use blunt force. That's the kind of argument I expect from kindergarden childs trying to cover up an obvious mess.
So I really can't see why you're defending the company when they clearly acted wrongly when trying to enforce something they were wrong in the first place in different ways for doing so.
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Again... No idea where you got that. I never said United was right. Never... I said the dude was wrong to refuse to cooperate to authorities and got hurt... Simple as that. You and many others are mixing 2 things here and not even reading what I'm saying.
And as I said, this person can then sue whoever he wants including United if he believe he asked to de-plane wrongly :)
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You don't always have to cooporate with the authorities because they say so, for example
https://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=30915
If they placed him under arrest, then yes, they were in their right to use force to remove him. Then he could try to sue them for wrongful arrest. Although the above relates to the police, dunno what rules airport security operates under.
