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MONDAY SEPT 1 This week of convicted killers, disrupted blowjobs, and dead Joan Rivers kicks off with the hottest trend of the summer: Commercial airliners forced to make unplanned landings thanks to customers fighting over leg room. The trend first announced itself just over a week ago, when a United Airlines flight from Newark to Denver was forced to land in Chicago after a fight broke out onboard over one passenger’s use of the Knee Defender—“a gadget that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front of them from reclining,” as the New York Daily News reports. A similar fight over legroom and the right to recline went down last Wednesday, forcing an American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris to abruptly land in Boston. Which brings us to today, when a flight from NYC to Palm Beach was forced to land in Jacksonville after another goddamn fight over reclining chairs and the right to personal space. As the New York Daily News reports, today’s fracas involved a passenger reclining her seat, only to be met by screaming and swearing from the passenger attempting to sleep on her tray table behind her. “The aggravated woman was cursing at the cabin crew and said something along with lines of ‘I don't care about the consequences, put this plane down now,’” reports NYDN. In closing, some words published by Dan Savage on Slog: “Diverting planes is hugely expensive: it burns expensive jet fuel, it causes delays that cost airlines money, it can mean overtime for crew. So, hey, if the airlines keep having to divert planes because angry passengers are fighting about leg room...maybe the airlines will conclude that it's cheaper to give passengers a little more leg room? So keep fighting, airline passengers!”

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