Woman sues United Airlines after allegedly being groped by off-duty pilot
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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/airplane-mode/woman-sues-united-airlines-after-allegedly-being-groped-duty-pilot-n890376
I had the make thread title short, due to it's character limit.
United's PR team must be having an aneurysm by now.
I imagine United's PR people permanently have a bottle of something strong within arm's reach.
she awoke again to find "Wedl’s hand rubbing her thigh, grabbing her butt, and attempting to reach into her pants. She cried 'stop' and he withdrew his hand from her body. She asked him what he was doing, and he creepily smiled at her in response."
Dowling went back to sleep again
i don't get how someone could go back to sleep sitting next to someone who did that
If I worked there I'd either be looking for another job or have a large bottle of whiskey instead of a waterbottle. No fucking way can any sane person do PR for United otherwise.
Why is she suing United for the behavior of someone off duty? It's not United's fault he's a scumbag. He wasn't on-duty, or using his authority with United to do the shitty thing he did. He should be fired and prosecuted, if true, but I don't see what the company itself has to do with it.
Sounds like a cash grab to me.
You misread. It's not about a United pilot, it happened on a United plane flight and the staff didn't take the incident seriously.
Should read the article.
The Denver lawsuit states that the first red flag on the 2016 flight was when "Wedl got out of his seat and approached United’s flight attendant ... and told her that he had been away from home for two months, he missed his wife, and he is horny."
"Dowling awoke to find Wedl’s hand on the back of her leg near her buttock."
The plaintiff asked a flight attended for a new seat assignment, but the United employee "suggested" that Dowling return to her seat and talk to Wedl, the suit alleges.
Dowling took the matter to the head flight attendant, who assigned her to a new seat in the same row but farther away.
"This is not okay, but I’m not shocked," the head flight attended is quoted as saying.
She told the attendants and even the head attendant to do something but they mostly just shrug it off.
Not familiar with what they are supposed to do but it can't be that. So it seems justified.
Here's what you fucking do. Call the perv out. Say "Hey scumbag! Come here and sit down so everyone can see you and you can learn to keep your goddamn grubby hands off people, because obviously Ma n Pa were two cunts too lazy to teach you that you don't touch people without their consent you fuck"
Goddamn let me be a flight person, no one will be touching anyone on my planes.
Alright yeah no that's my bad. That's pretty scummy. Not sure why they didn't move her farther away than across the row (unless it was a bigger plane, when across the row could have been between two aisles, IDK) - But still, not sure why she's suing United. Playing devil's advocate here, I'm pretty sure private corporations have no obligation/expectation to protect their customers from stuff like this. Especially when it's been ruled in the supreme court that police officers are not strictly obligated to help or otherwise render assistance to the general public as there is "no express contract pledging or promising otherwise".
Why isn't she suing the man? Did she press charges? Was he arrested?
"Dowling suffered physical pain and suffering, shock, emotional
distress, embarrassment, mortification, anxiety, anguish, loss
ofenjoyment of life, loss of past and future income, loss of past and
future medical expenses, and further injuries and damages as will be
proven at trial," the filing claim
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