JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater a Folk Hero After Quitting, Exiting Down Emergency Slide

As a frequent flyer, I can understand why the poor guy cracked!

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater has become an instant Internet folk hero after arguing with a passenger, making a four-letter-word-laced intercom announcement and then fleeing down the aircraft’s inflatable emergency slide at New York’s JFK airport — with a beer in hand, snatched from the beverage cart.

Slater, 38, activated the plane’s chute Monday, moments after the passenger who tried to remove luggage from an overhead bin too early upon landing bonked him on the head with a bag and then swore at him, according to news reports. Slater swore back at the passenger over the plane’s loudspeaker and then said, “That’s it. I’ve had it.” He grabbed a beer, his own luggage and slid down onto the tarmac.

via JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater a Folk Hero After Quitting, Exiting Down Emergency Slide.