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Old Apr 19, 2017, 10:48 pm
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nitzer
 
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Originally Posted by Kevin AA
What difference does the victim's ethnicity make? The claims I've heard that he was chosen because he's Asian have no basis in fact. The UA computers, which don't store your ethnicity in the PNR, picked him using a secret formula because the GA was too lazy to get permission to go over the measly $800 for VDB.
That secret formula will come under intense scrutiny in the courtroom. What happens if it doesn't match other IVBD situations when they have come onto an aircraft. They will find that out in the discovery process.
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