Lawsuit of the Day

Lawsuit of the Day: Overly Friendly Skies

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We have another Lawsuit of the Day involving the perils of sleeping, from the Star-Telegram’s airline blog.

A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County.

Anyone who’s seen the movie Red Eye knows flight attendants are oblivious to women being terrorized by strange men on planes.
Here are the traumatizing details:

The woman slept most of the flight, but awoke about 20 minutes before landing when the pilot announced the plane was on descent into Los Angeles. When the woman opened her eyes, she saw that an unknown man had moved into the seat next to her and was staring at her as he masturbated, the suit states.

The woman turned toward the window in embarrassment and in an act of nervousness began to run her fingers through her hair where she noticed “a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance in her hair,” the suit states.

We are tempted to remark on possible new definitions of red eye flight had she not turned away, but we think one tipster who sent this story along said it best:

This sounds like a sticky situation…

Woman files lawsuit against AMR because passenger next to her masturbated while she slept [Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Sky Talk via Drudge]
Woman Sues American Airlines Over Masturbating Passenger [Consumerist]

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