Steven Slater Pleads Guilty

Well, he fessed up.

Steven Slater, the former JetBlue flight attendant, who gave a big giant F-you to his job, before grabbing a Bud and escaping down an emergency chute exit at JFK, has pleaded guilty to one count of felony attempted criminal mischief and one count of misdemeanor criminal mischief.

The good news is that Slater will not go to prison. He could have been sentenced to a one-to three-year sentence, but his deal requires that he enter a year-long mental health program and receive alcohol and substance abuse counseling.
He, um, will also be paying JetBlue some $10,000 to repair the escape chute.

And $5.00 for the beer.

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The Boycott Is Back, Too

So, first Target gets nailed for donating money to a PAC that donated money to a rabidly anti-gay politician, Tom Emmer, who gave some of his money to a "Christian" rock band who believes the moral thing to do is Kill The Gays.

Then the LGBT community gave a big Steven Slater to Target. We grabbed a Bud Lite and slid out of their stores in droves. And their stock dropped as the boycott hit.

Well, what does a Target do? They apologize, though not specifically to the LGBT community but to their own employees and they talk about how they were just doing what was best for Target.

Okay, so, boycott off? Not so much.

After agreeing to work with the Human Rights Campaign [HRC] to make amends for being money-grubbing-asshats, Target has suddenly decided to abandon the idea. HRC has been working with Target for almost two weeks to try and come to some sort of resolution that keeps Target's reputation on relative solid footing within the LGBT community.

But Target said that they're no longer interested in working with the group, and don't really feel it's in the company's best interest to make things right with the LGBT community.
So, I would ask the LGBT community to reciprocate in kind, and stop working with Target. Perhaps do like this guy:

And if you work for Target, perhaps a job search is in order, and once you've found said employment elsewhere, why not head back into your Target store, find the nearest PA system, and give a big F-U to the company that gave a big F-U to the LGBT community.
Sounds only fair.

Rule # 1: Never NEVER Piss Off A Queen

We've all had those days when you just want to go off on that moron on the phone, or the fool in the next cubicle, or the numbnuts screaming into his cell phone on a commuter train in Chicago [Hey Dan!] but how many of us actually do it?

How many of us actually get the shout a big F-U to our jobs and the jump on an inflatable slide and run away?

Steven Slater did just that. But then he got arrested for it. Guess the Big F-U came around to bite him in the ass.

See, Steven Slater is a flight attendant who, on Monday, had finally had enough.

He was working a JetBlue flight that landed at Kennedy at just around noon, right on time, oddly enough. And Steven Slater noticed a passenger stand up to retrieve his belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission.

Well, Steven Slater wasn't having it. He instructed the person to remain seated and the passenger defied him. As Steven Slater approached, the passenger gave one final tug to his suitcase and yanked it out of the overhead bin, striking Steven Slater in the head.

Rightfully so, Steven Slater asked for an apology, but instead the passenger cussed him out. So, rather than engage in any altercation with the rude passenger, Steven Slater got on the plane’s public-address system and cursed out the passenger for all to hear.

There were F-bombs and F-yous, and then Steven Slater ended his tirade by saying he'd been working as a flight attendant for twenty-eight years. He blurted out “It’s been great!” and then grabbed a beer from the nearest beverage cart, activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and slid off the plane. Steven Slater jogged to the employee parking lot, got in his car and drove home, to Queens of course, where he was subsequently arrested.

Steven Slater was charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

I think he should have been charged with making the most fabulous F-U-JetBlue in the world.

Steven Slater, I salute you!