They absolutely DID have the right to remove him from the flight. Airlines absolutely have the right to bump passengers, and, if there aren’t volunteers, they can bump them, and pay them legally defined compensation ($675-1350, depending on the price of the ticket and length of the delay, in cash).

No, but she shouldn’t wear leggings or pajamas either. Regular pants, like any 10 year old girl might have, would have been fine.

While we’re at it, let’s boycott adults who act like four year olds when they don’t get their way. I mean, I agree that United acted despicably and the optics of this are horrible. But at the end of the day it IS their aircraft. if they ask you to leave you don’t have to like it but they have the right to ask you…

Your smear campaign on United makes me wonder what Gawker Media’s parent company’s business interests are. It’s been proven that the leggings incident wasn’t unreasonable since the girls were flying on an employee ticket and there are dress-code rules that come along with the free/heavily discounted ticket. You keep…

If tiny business suits are the only other things besides leggings in a 10 year olds wardrobe, sure? Obviously this was something that her parents should have handled, the responsibility isn’t the 10 year olds. But the fact of the matter is: when using a free ticket, you abide by the rules of the free ticket. If it…

What’s especially despicable about United is the fact that this latest jaw-dropping incident doesn’t seem out of the ordinary for the airline. It was just a couple of weeks ago that United refused to allow three young girls to board their flight, because they were wearing leggings. United didn’t apologize for that…

OK, this is bullshit, they overbooked the flight and I promise you there was a way to compensate a passenger to willingly get off the airplane. $2K? $10K? A first class flight to Paris for two and a hotel voucher? Charter a private jet to take their 4 employees that absolutely had to be there? There was a solution to…

The legging incident is a non-story. If you are flying on a buddy pass, there is a clear dress code and those passengers did not meet it. If you are paying full price though like this doctor, the airline looks clearly in the wrong.

No, you’re awesome. Be in the moment, to coin a cliche.

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OMG, I hate umbrellas at big outdoor events so much.

Nobody in LA has license plates. You just tape a piece of cardboard with the name of a dealer where the plate should go and hit the road.

The problem is that you’re on track with a bunch of other people. The dirty little secret of track days is that lots of people there aren’t technically insured while on track.

Reaching into the field to take a ball from a player is never a good idea, but I think he did give it to the kids a couple of seats over.

Sentence them to prison until they can do the loop in Hard Drivin’. That’s like 10-15 years, no parole.

Isn’t coffee, by definition, all pre-brewed?

Oh sure, I bet you think all CEOs look alike.

HELLO THERE FELLOW YOUTH HOW ABOUT THAT MUSICAL PERFORMANCE ARTIST WE ARE ALL ENJOYING LATELY? ISN’T SLANG THE BEST? SPORTS LIKE GOLF ARE FOR THE ELDERLY WHO NEED TO BE PUT INTO INFIRNMENT CAMPS AT BEST OR ROUNDED UP VIA BULLDOZER AND DRIVEN TO EITHER ONE OF THE COASTS (DEPENDING ON LOCATION) AND THEN PUSHED INTO THE…

that’s because you’re all poor. one day, maybe all of you can move out of your parents houses, get a real job, and then you’ll play golf.

Cyclists have as much of a right to the road as anyone else.