Originally Posted by
davie355
I am not lucky to have been assaulted by an airline employee. That is a barbaric sentiment.
1. calling it "assaulted" when someone grabs your arm is ridiculous hyperbole, on par with your use of "barbaric". You were not assaulted.
2.
by your own admission you deliberately bypassed a boarding pass checkpoint. Here is the 21st century there will be consequences for that any airport.
3. you distorted what I wrote: "you're lucky that the employee
just grabbed your arm". What I said is that you were
lucky it was only the arm considering that you had bypassed a checkpoint. Violate airport rules and there are consequences. Go over the security fora and read the stories about pax thrown to the ground, bloodied, arrested, etc. for violating security rules. There are plenty of stories out there of people going where they shouldn't on the tarmac and being arrested.
Originally Posted by diburning
That employee should be glad that he didn't grab a military veteran who are trained to respond immediately on instinct. That employee would have ended up in the hospital with at least a few teeth missing, and with the passenger suing the airline for damages.
One would hope a veteran would have better sense than to deliberately walk past a boarding pass checkpoint. However, someone who did walk past one and then assaulted an airport employee would likely be arrested, face criminal charges and have zero success suing anybody for damages. Make a bad choice, face the consequences: why is that hard to understand?
Also, where do you get the idea that any military personnel are trained to "respond immediately on instinct" with violence? Training teaches members of the military to assess a threat and respond
appropriately, use of violence in response to someone grabbing your arm is contrary to military tactical training.