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An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues.

Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm filed suit against Boeing after one of its planes lost a door plug mid-air back in January, said he discovered the deflated slide washed up outside his oceanfront home near New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.

“I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” he told The New York Post of the bizarre discovery along the shore of Belle Harbor, Queens.

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[–] Reverendender 165 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How have they not grounded every Boeing plane at this point? The company needs to be federalized.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The plane is 34 years old. It's probably more likely it's Delta's lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While I know you're correct... And there is definitely going to be a media bias in reporting... There seems to have been a remarkably large number of issues with Boeing planes specifically lately.

[–] Zipitydew 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shitting on Boeing is getting clicks. So the news keeps reporting on every bit of anything they can find related to them. The incident rate isn't going up. At the same time there have been a few issues with Airbus planes but that's not getting engagement as much so the news isn't focusing on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they fucking killed a guy. So you know. Probably wouldn't murk a dude if their shit was up to standard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Maybe bcause shades of nuance exists tho?

[–] Zipitydew 6 points 6 months ago

Should GM be responsible for a tire on your car going flat after you've owned it for 15 years?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Because nobody likes lawyers. If an emergency slide falls on a lawyer, so be it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't that make him run with the devil?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I found the simple life ain't so simple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Queue Van Halen - Running With The Devil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

David Komie?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I like some lawyers. Mark Bankston and Bill Ogden are good in my books. Still, never have heroes because we're all fallible humans.

[–] Quetzlcoatl 2 points 6 months ago

What do you call a lawyer killed by an emergency slide? A good start.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.

[–] Quetzlcoatl 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why have they not outlawed boats? Boats are safer than cars.

Why havent we killed all the cobras? Cobras are safer than boats.

Why havent we outlawed kitchen knives? Kitchen knives are safer than cobras.

Am I doing this right? Its a fun game which deflects blame and changes the subject quite effectively.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

The Stay-Puft marshmellow man would never hurt anybody...

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[–] mindbleach 1 points 6 months ago

Y'know how that happened?

We fixed problems like this.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This HAS to be the onion right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

At this point, maybe there's enough people suing boeing that the odds of a random plane piece falling on a lawyer involved rises significantly.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)

you know what I'm starting to believe that god does actually exist and he's just messing with us for his own entertainment at this point

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Parthenon gods work well for this shit. Zeus had a bad day and wanted a laugh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Has anyone recently been raped by a goose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Is he havin a laugh?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Or we live in a simulation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Is there a meaningful difference between a god and a creator of a virtual universe?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Or both

Maybe neither

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A simulation should approximate reality. What this is, it can't be that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Good point, but that may be some form of contemporary art

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Process 8759264 ([email protected]) please report to rehabilitation

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Hang on, Margaret, someone just delivered a new piece of evidence."

I cannot WAIT for the docu-drama series about all this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Compared to Boeing, I look like I have my shit together.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

I want to see him haul that slide into court to introduce as an exhibit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Bit of an understatement, that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what you are trying to say there.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They don't like rich lawyers. Few do.

But we do want lawyers skilled enough to be able to hurt major corporations, and then expect them to work cheap.

It's not all that hard to understand when you're downtrodden. But it is a bit counterproductive in my opinion. (That aimed at the original commenter, not at you, though I am sympathetic to both viewpoints.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Ah that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Tbf JFK area Oceanfront isn't nearly as nice as what you're probably picturing. It's not like coastal California, it's cold AF 8mo and rainy the rest. There's only like 2 sand beaches nearby.

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