gianmarco said:
Completely disagree. Dad was pretty calm, and traveling with two young children on a red eye, not sure how anyone could be expected to respond any better when being told they need to get off the plane.
What makes him a tool?
He was asked to give up JUST the one seat. That is really weird, since regular standby rules are such that a general announcement is made that there is an overbooking, they are going to pay for someone to volunteer, etc. etc. And, when this happened last time with the doctor getting dragged off, the general rules were published indicating that families traveling with young children were generally not asked to give up a seat.
So why was this guy in particular focused on? So something else had to be going on. I'd be really surprised if this was a normal "bumping" kind of thing. BEST case scenario, he paid for a fourth seat in his older kids name, and his older kid was nowhere to be seen. If you or I do something like that, we know that we are in the wrong, but we still try and pull it through, but we probably aren't d^cks about it. Because we know this isn't within the bounds of the rules. And if we get called on it ("I'm sorry sir, you can't pay for the ticket for one son who isn't here and then put your other son in the seat"), we probably are a little abashed, maybe push just a little, but at the end of the day, not following rules is not following rules.
This HAD to be a middle aged white guy, probably a former bro, who is used to getting his way if he pushed hard enough.
I'm sure I could be wrong.
Also, "calm" doesn't necessarily equal "not a #####."
Also the POLICE looked like they were there. At some point, you may want to back down, dude. Just put the kid in your lap.