Exit....Stage Left.....Over and Out..

[The Red Baron]

AN air steward quit yesterday with a four-letter rant over his plane's speakers - then fled down its emergency chute.

Steven Slater, 39, blew his top minutes after landing at New York's JFK Airport when he rowed with a passenger.
He yelled over the public address system: "To the f***** who told me to f*** off, it's been a good 28 years - I'm off!" Slater then grabbed two bottles of beer, pulled the lever to activate the inflatable escape chute and hurled himself down it.

When he hit the tarmac he ran to his car and drove home. He was later arrested and charged with criminal mischief. Slater, in bed with his boyfriend when officers arrived at his beachfront home, admitted he had gone down the chute with his bags.

He said: "I threw them down first and I went down after."

Slater quit after he was hit on the head as a passenger tried to take luggage from an overhead locker.

Another passenger who watched Slater on the JetBlue flight said: "He said he'd had a bad day. If only we could all quit so spectacularly."

Read more: www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3090007/Angry-air-steward-quits-and-chutes-off.html#ixzz0wHDIICgK

[Dave Homewood]

Great story!

[kiwithrottlejockey]

He merely did what plenty of us have dreamed of doing while having an extremely bad day at work.

Mind you, back in 1975 (when there were more jobs available than workers to fill them), I quit a job in a similar fashion, although probably not quite so spectacularly in a public sense.

[ErrolC]

Aug 12, 2010 13:57:59 GMT 12 kiwithrottlejockey said:

He merely did what plenty of us have dreamed of doing while having an extremely bad day at work.

It wouldn't be 'merely' if he had killed someone when the slide deployed.