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Full Version: Airline Sued Over Sex Toy Incident
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| Renee Koutsouradis of Tarpon Springs, Fla., was on a Delta Air Lines jet awaiting takeoff from Dallas when her name was called over the loudspeaker and she was pulled from the plane. Something was buzzing in her luggage. When taken to the taxiway, she told a Delta security agent that the buzzing was likely coming from a sex toy she and her husband had just bought during their trip to Las Vegas. Koutsouradis, 38, says she was then ordered to remove the toy, hold it up and remove its batteries, all in full view of some other passengers on her flight. She claims a baggage handler then licked his lips and made sexually inappropriate comments as other Delta employees laughed. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Friday in the appeal of a Florida federal judge's dismissal of a lawsuit Koutsouradis filed against Delta over the February 2002 incident. Koutsouradi argues that the Atlanta-based airline's employees publicly humiliated her as she waited for her flight from Dallas to Tampa, Fla. The lawsuit says Koutsouradis has suffered nightmares and panic attacks and has been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder because of the incident. It says she was most disturbed by the "offensive and outrageous" comments made by the Delta baggage handler about her sex life. "She felt that in order for this to not happen to someone else she was going to have to stand up to the airline," said Craig Berman, Koutsouradis's attorney from St. Petersburg, Fla. "She is facing further embarrassment to correct wrongdoing." Koutsouradis is seeking unspecified damages from Delta. Because it's in federal court, any jury award would be at least $75,000, Berman said. Last October, the case was heard in U.S. District Court in Florida. But before it was sent to the jury, the judge dismissed it, saying federal aviation laws protect airline workers from lawsuits while they are performing their jobs. Koutsouradis' attorneys say the law should not have applied to this case. "Obviously, making sexual comments is not an airline service," Berman said. "You can handle bags without offering a sexual service." |
How embarrassing...
...for the airline.
'Bina.
Now..no one is more for sexual pleasure than I am..but these airline doofuses need to get their asses fired for pulling that stunt...if only based on thier lack of respect for the woman's privacy. What did they freakin' think..that a grown adult woman wouldn't use a pleasure device for her own private use?? They could have been a bit more discreet and respectful..and cetainly they should have shut their pieholes and allowed the woman on her way once they discovered what the source of the problem was.
Besides that, I thought that they were supposed to be doing racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims, not women packing sex toys?!?!?!
Having said that, though, pardon me if I'm a bit underwhelmed by the supposed extreme reaction from the lady that she uses in her lawsuit. It may be more than a bit embarrassing to have your private sex toys revealed in such an insulting and degrading way...but NIGHTMARES???? Panic attacks?? Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome??? No disrespect to the woman and the embarrassment she went through, but that sounds like she's reaching a bit..or at least, her LAWYERS are reaching for a fat commission on her settlement. Whatever...in this case, she does deserve it all for what she went through.
However, I hope the day comes when a woman who is caught with a vibrator or a sex toy simply speaks responds with this, "Yes, I use it. No, you can't join me. Now give me my damn suitcase and get the fuck out of my business!!!"
Then again..there's always the Pocket Rocket...heheh 
Anthony
Besides that, I thought that they were supposed to be doing racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims, not women packing sex toys?!?!?!
Having said that, though, pardon me if I'm a bit underwhelmed by the supposed extreme reaction from the lady that she uses in her lawsuit. It may be more than a bit embarrassing to have your private sex toys revealed in such an insulting and degrading way...but NIGHTMARES???? Panic attacks?? Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome??? No disrespect to the woman and the embarrassment she went through, but that sounds like she's reaching a bit..or at least, her LAWYERS are reaching for a fat commission on her settlement. Whatever...in this case, she does deserve it all for what she went through.
However, I hope the day comes when a woman who is caught with a vibrator or a sex toy simply speaks responds with this, "Yes, I use it. No, you can't join me. Now give me my damn suitcase and get the fuck out of my business!!!"
Then again..there's always the Pocket Rocket...heheh
Anthony
I would have loudly proclaimed its many wonderful uses.
In detail.
In detail.
Like in "When Harry Met Sally"?
"Oh, waiter! I'll have what SHE's having!"
'Bina.
"Oh, waiter! I'll have what SHE's having!"
'Bina.
| QUOTE (BinaBecker @ Thursday, 16 December 2004, 11:08 pm) |
| Like in "When Harry Met Sally"? "Oh, waiter! I'll have what SHE's having!" 'Bina. |
Hahahaha.....yup....and on the plane, people would secretly find out where I got my accoutrements .
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