Lawsuit of the Day: Overly Friendly Skies
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]
(61) Comments
first and gross!
Is anyone else stunned she just "turned away" instead of making a fuss?
Wouldn't any sane person immediately be yelling for a flight attendant and/or air marshal?
Complete overreaction. Last time I pulled that move, the woman actually opened her mouth and swallowed the load! It was a Delta flight. AA is way too uptight.
This post leads me to believe that American Airlines may be in charge of operating the San Francisco public transit system.
How does one go about "flogging the dolphin" in mid-air without garnering any attention. Would not the rapid arm movements and unsheathed penis be a dead give away.
brings a new definition to "mile high club".
This would NEVER happen at Hofstra!:)
Kudos to AMR for thinking outside the box - everyone is always complaining about how airlines are cutting back on perks and here AMR is getting crap for providing its passengers with protein shakes.
What's so bad about public masturbation?
I would gladly take a facial on every flight if it meant the plane would board and land on time.
How did no one else on the plane notice what this guy was doing?
If I had to guess, I would bet this guy is one of the tools who posted the other day that Spitzer's escort was ugly.
Finally, in typical lotto winner fashion, sue the deep pockets, not the guy who actually does the deed.
No way I'm flying AA from now on. It's Oceanic Air for me.
She should be grateful, lots of shampoo formulas include semen extract because the baby batter is full of nutrients. American Airlines should start advertising this:
Fly Coach, Now with a Chance of Spa-like Hair Treatment!
Good job, Kashmir. Your presence on this blog is making me think that SEN was simply a bad dream...
How did it get in her *hair* but not anywhere else on her if he was in a seated position? That guy must have packed some force behind his, ah, release. But another odd aspect to the story: why would he still be masturbating after he had already, ah, finished? Sounds a little strange.
10:46(3) Perhaps he was working on round two!
10:37 - Comment of 2008 so far.
10:53 = 10:37's boyfriend
United flight attendants gladly accept facials, all you have to do is ask. Clearly this passenger was on the wrong airline. Thats all.
10:40:
1. She tried to get the attention of a flight attendant but was "unsuccessful" i.e., they ignored her.
2. The flight crew admitted to the police that they noticed the perv move from his assigned seat to sit next to her.
So, AA has no duty here? I think not.
Not only would I take a facial for on-time flights with no lost luggage, I would take it in the ass just to skip the security line. . . Oh wait, going through security is taking it in the ass.
People like that passenger should be beaten until they stop moving.
10:06: I'd have yelled, but I'm a known scene-maker. A lot of women are really freaked-out and silenced by that kind of thing.
Whether the airline's liable is an interesting question, though. A battery occurred on their watch. I'm reminded of that incident where a flight attendant asked a woman to stop breastfeeding b/c it was making other passengers uncomfortable, so there's probably an argument that their role isn't simply to keep passengers safe. It'd strike me as a little odd if some dude who was alone sidled over to a seat that just happened to be next to a sleeping young woman who was also traveling alone.
I'm also amazed that no other passengers saw what was going on.
11:29,
A woman was asked to stop feeding her baby becuase it was making passengers uncomfortable? Did she not cover herself up?
When will we get over the immature belief that breasts are only sexual objects?
Guys in my high school used to masterbate on sleeeping girls all the time; it was no big deal.
11:33 - Breasts are more than sexual objects? What other uses do they have?
11:29: Yes - actually, I wasn't being precise, I just realized. She was asked to cover herself up, refused, and got escorted off the plane b/c she made a huge scene. Google it - it's a pretty interesting story.
11:29/11:52
Thanks for the clarification. The woman obviously had issues.
11:10 = Dickie Scruggs
The airline saw someone (who they had no idea was a perv) move from one seat to another and did nothing to stop him? Outrageous!! I smell punitive damages. Let's bankrupt this company...oh, wait. Too late for that.
If the airline has any liability, it should be maybe 5%, with 95% going to the perv who actually caused the "damage." And while we are talking about damages, I think a comp ticket and a bottle of shampoo should more than compensate her. AA's "damages" bill - $25.
She should have just yelled "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking [sperms] on this motherfucking plane!"
LOL at 12:35
Does this mean that now all males will be forced to jerk off prior to boarding and place their jizz in a one-quart size ziploc bag. That's right I said quart sized, some of us might be on Maximum Pills. Damn Homeland Security!
Thank you for this "moneyshot" of a story, the material is providing endless material :) Keep the stories on public masturbation and surprise ejaculations "cumming." This is a "hard" issue for us to "grasp" and only until we've "beaten it repeatedly" and gotten a "taste" of it will we know how best to deal with it.
12:54 - No, you don't have to jerk off. Just visit the men's room for a rendezvous with a fellow passenger in your predicament. I can show you some hand signals to use, but if the FBI asks, you didn't learn them from me!
10:15,
You asked how no one noticed the rapid movement of the arm. It's EASY for people not to notice. Haven't you ever cut a hole in the inside of a pants pocket, put your hand in your pocket, and played like a telegraph operator announcing that gold has been discovered at Sutter's Mill? How did you get through high school?
Keep an eye on me in the deposition room.
This guy obviously has issues. When she saw him and turned away, he took it as an invitation to fuck her doggystyle.
That guy should have had a better escape plan. When I do it, I always keep a mouthful of listerine, so that if she wakes up and wigs out, I can spit a stream of it in her eye and make my getaway. Of course, nine times out of ten when they wake up they're totally into it- so I'll just swallow the listerine and transition into make-out mode. Chicks love it.
hope everyone learned a lesson from this story--harris county women are whores.
Onanists at my preparatory academy frequently expectorated seminal humours on unsuspecting members of the fairer sex while scullery wenches turned a knowing but blind eye to the events. All refrained from comment.
Beautifully turned, 1:46.
12:35 and 1:46 have made my day. Thanks to both of you (assuming you are not the same person).
Gentlemen in my preparatory school frequently assumed my nom de plume and affected my manerisms and linquistic patterns in a meritricious impersonation. It was not a conspicuous event.
"Ah..skeet skeet skeet"
- Dave Chappelle
2:25, somebody might be assumin' your nome du plume, I don't know, but what 1:46 said was pretty durn funny.
I don't care who you are, that was funny.
It's about time they start outlawing snakes on a plane.
That's a high jacking if I've ever heard of one!
Nice, 4:55. Very nice indeed.
Dave Chapelle did a stand up about a homeless guy jacking off on a bus and white people being too scared to say anything. I thought it was too ridiculous to be true, but the guy is a fortune teller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MynB5X3Dj38
10:06 - You don't know how you'll react until you've been the victim of such an act.
Under different circumstances, this happened to me. I was in a foreign (French) bookstore and the guy came on my butt. I speedily walked away and just kind of stared at him for a minute as I saw him "finish up" -- I was in a daze and was too shocked to properly react immediately. When he looked like he was leaving, I was able to react and tried to get the attention of an associate who was at a desk with a line. She heard my accent and how I was struggling to put my sentences together and pointed to the back of the line and yelled at me. I was too upset to figure out how to say words like "masturbate" and "semen" in french (when was that lesson?) and gave up.
My point: don't judge unless you've been there.
4:55: Comment of the Year.
@Formerly jizzed on:
Sorry. When I saw you with those thick glasses and that Roman Law book, I couldn't help myself. Think of it as blowing a kiss...or in my case...blowing a load.
6:12, it's "se branler" (to masturbate one's self) and "foutre" (semen). Duh.
How did he cum on your butt? Were you bent over and alseep?
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'jizz' is. If the--if he--if 'jizz' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with the woman seated next to you, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."
AMR should motion for summary judgment. The picture shown on the plaintiff's facebook profile clearly shows her hair already contains “a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance"
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503104664
After a little research:
1. Her counsel has a myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/onealprofessionalgroup
2. Her counsel also posted this video on myspace (which is Safe for Work) which includes comment from the plaintiff: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=26129865
6:12: I have heard so many gross stories about French dudes. What gives?
As the perpetrator was walked off in handcuffs, he was heard to mutter: "I did not have sex with that woman."
I see absolutely nothing wrong with choking the rubber chicken in public.
as she alked off, she was heard singing (the tune by Phil Collins): "I can feel it cumming in the hair tonight, oh Lord... I've been waiting for this moment all my life..."
The man is reportedly a sailor... indeed according to some media report, "she was found with seamen in her hair" !
This happens all the time to girls who fall asleep in class at AU.