Flying With Maggots

The Jazz Bus: Flying with Maggots
Sounds like a great name for an album title, FLYING WITH MAGGOTS. The band is breaking up, we are on our last tour and actually despise each other. Yes, an apropos name. But no, not a joke or an album name but rather a true headline. Seems a passenger on a recent domestic flight got through security and brought spoiled meat onto a plane. He calmly stored it in an overhead compartment and took his seat. During the course of the flight passengers started to notice little white bugs landing on their clothes and persons.
Anyone who has flown in the last few years knows the extent of security at our airports. Off with your shoes, no lighters, oh, spoiled, rotten, smelly meat,” go ahead, aisle 6 seat c, and sir, May I store your package overhead for you?” Ah, but the plane has oversubscribed with extra carry-ons, so it (the spoiled meat) will not be directly over the culprit who brought it. Rather, it will be over some unsuspecting patron.
But the story got better. The moron who brought the meat onboard gets removed from the plane, placed on another airline and flown to his destination in short order, while the other passengers remained on the plane ,waited for the overhead to be cleaned and then they were flown, delayed by many hours, on the same but now cleaned plane to their destination. After arriving at their destination the plane was then taken out of service and fumigated, finally. Social justice would have been to let one of the passengers take the maggot infested meat and force feed the maggot who brought it on to the plane. John DiScala, a travel blogger known as Johnny Jet, said that the airline can't be blamed for this one. No kidding. It was stupidity.
Now a Jet Blue flight attendant, Steven Slater loses it, cursed out passengers over the PA, pulls the emergency exit chute chord, grabs a few beers, jumps out the plane and runs across the tarmac heading home. That is one of the best ways to state, “I quit”. All because some passenger got him upset by not follow instructions, grabbing his overhead luggage while the plane was still moving and hitting Stevie in the head with the bag causing a gash. Cool, way to go, Steven. I know how you feel, the airlines are the new Disneyland and I am only an occasion rider. Sitting on an overcrowded plane, next to someone’s kids with his brother directly behind you, with Mom and Dad sipping Bloody Mary’s many seats away paying no attention to their hyperactive kids next to me or kicking my upright seat. My overhead bag is stored rows away from me because this family brought their entire clothes and toy collection in their carry-ons and they were seated first because they “have little ones” as Mama requested. This poor flight attendant, Steven Slater, could face seven years for criminal charges while the passenger, scot free. Hmmm.
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