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2 JetBlue pilots arrested for beating up a cabbie
Oh my, the bad news about JetBlue staff just keeps piling up. After the report of a JetBlue Flight attendant harassing a passenger, it is now 2 Jetblue pilots who are in hot water.
The 2 off-duty pilots were in a cab, making their way from an upscale Miami strip club to a local Subway sandwich shop. When they arrived at their destination, they decided that they were too important to pay the $9 cab fare.
Their refusal resulted in a fight with the cab driver, ending with him on the ground with a concussion and a broken right ankle. The incident happened last August and it is not entirely clear from the arrest report why it took the police this long to arrest the 2 pilots.
Of course, this brings me to the most important part of my article; the news reports about this attack seem a little too sensationalist to me. Does it really matter what the profession was of the 2 alleged attackers? Are there professions out there where beating up cab drivers is considered acceptable? (And yes; I realize the irony in this statement, given the fact that I am also writing about it!).
To prove my point; the web page title of the CBS4 article is called "Cabbie Killer Cab". Nobody was killed, and I'm fairly sure these 2 pilots had no intention of killing anyone.
At the end of the article it is made clear that there is, as always, 2 sides to a story. The cab driver apparently has an anger management problem and the attorney for the pilots claims the cab driver used pepper spray before he was attacked. Whichever side of the story turns out to be true, it is a bad idea to refuse paying your local cabbie, and it is a bad idea to use pepper spray on 2 guys trying to find a tasty sandwich.
What strange things have been found on planes?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
paul Oct 3rd 2008 5:45PM
Meh. Tell me something interesting about TRAVEL. Describe fascinating places to go in a foreign land. Show me someplace I've never seen. Tell me about interesting customs. That's what people come here for, not a bunch of airline industry-related blurbs.
This blog should focus more on the destination, less on the industry happenings. The doings of pilots, air traffic controllers, and the opinions of flight attendants makes for very dry reading. Three good posts per day on this blog would be better than wading through the current 12-20.
Spike Heels Oct 3rd 2008 9:31PM
Pilots in a strip club. Is that a surprise? At least it was an upscale strip club.
ANB Oct 3rd 2008 10:52PM
"it is a bad idea to refuse paying your local cabbie..."
Not to mention that it's a bad idea for a married man (which they both surely are) to be going to a strip club.
Disgrace.
vgkflc Oct 5th 2008 8:34PM
Jet Blue again???!!! I think its time the law makers step in and shut them down before they end up causing hundreds to die at one time. Every week these idiots are busted for something. GET THEM OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!
john Oct 5th 2008 10:33PM
Maybe the cabby didn't speak to good english and the piolets wanted him to wait untill they got thier subs, the cabby pepper sprayed the piolets before they beat his ass!!!