JetBlue Flight attendants Steve Slater Hero For The Working Man?: JetBlue flight attendant Stephen Slater was arrested in Queens on Monday after a sharp exit from Pittsburgh to escape to New York after a quarrel with a passenger. Steve Slater, 39, reportedly got into an argument on the pavement with a passenger, who did not want to listen to his instructions.As a flight attendant airline JetBlue, a woman stood up and pulled down her luggage while the plane was still moving after landing in New York. Slater reportedly said that he politely asked the woman to close the overhead bin and sit down until the plane came to a complete stop. In response, Slater said the woman called him derogatory names and "evil" hit him in the head. It is unclear whether Slater got baggage or the edge of the overhead cover box.
Regardless of what happened, Stephen Slater had had enough. Related JetBlue began flying into a loud rant over internal after the incident. "For the passenger who called me a mother-f ** ker, f ** k you. I'm in this business for 28 years. And that's all I did.
Steven Slater, it is argued, grabbed a beer from the galley, opened the emergency door, emergency slide deployed, threw my luggage on it and walked out of the plane down on the slide.
Slater was arrested several hours later in New York Port Authority officers and charged with criminal mischief, reckless threats and trespassing.
After news of the spectacular exit Slater from the plane - and his job - JetBlue flight attendant has become somewhat a folk hero Internet. Just check Twitter or Facebook, to find thousands of new fans Slater. We are sure that many people there would love to make such a brazen way out of such a hated job, except maybe for the whole thing to get arrested.
