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News & ArtsTuesday, August 10, 2010
Life Which Beer Is the Beer of Jet Blue Heroes?
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM
We already know quite a bit about American Hero Steven Slater. To recap: After some sort of altercation aboard JetBlue flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to JFK yesterday, maybe involving a woman slamming the door to an overhead luggage compartment down on Slater's head, Slater, a career flight attendant, allegedly picked up the mic to the plane's intercom, cursed the woman out ("To the fucking asshole who told me to fuck off, it's been a good 28 years. I've had it. That's it."), opened the airplane's emergency exit while it was on the tarmac at JFK, grabbed two beers from the plane's galley, and slid down an inflatable slide straight into folk hero status. (And then reportedly went home and banged his boyfriend while the cops were coming for him.)
But questions about the incident remain. Including! Which of Jet Blue's five available in-flight beers did Slater grab before his history-making trip down the emergency exit slide?
Let's answer the question with a definitive, mystery-solving Slog poll.
Which of these is obviously the Beer of Jet Blue Heroes?
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If the reports are accurate that his social networking site features boilerplate about "grateful to be sober one day at a time" stuff, I'd guess he grabbed whatever brand was closest to his hand at the moment his great brainstorm hit.
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I'm curious about that "28 years". He's only 38. I somehow doubt he started working as a flight attendant at 10.
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@8,
According to the assistant district attorney, he said 20. The ADA wasn't there, but he probably has read a number of witness reports.
According to the assistant district attorney, he said 20. The ADA wasn't there, but he probably has read a number of witness reports.
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I would totally donate $10-20 to set this guy free. There must be 124-249 like thinkers out there. How do we make this happen?!
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Every time I see that guys picture, I can't help thinking of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZCxEqLTK…
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Maybe "twenty-odd" was misheard as "28", as in "It's been a great twenty-odd years…"
Best part about it all? Banging his boyfriend. Oh hell yeah.
Best part about it all? Banging his boyfriend. Oh hell yeah.
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Ah, Stillnon, your comments are like finding a little crust of something stuck to the page of a library book.
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Gus, on another blog I read about a woman who was entertaining her cranky child on a plane, and grabbed the airsickness bag and shoved her hand inside to make a puppet....of course you can guess what happened, it had been put back in the seat pocket *used*. Best part? This was during take-off, so she had to wait until they turned off the seat belt sign to go wash her hand. Gak. So, a stillnon comment is like getting a library book crust and a used vomit bag on the SAME flight. Whew, I just wore myself out.
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