My family have a flight booked to go to Melbourne (from Sydney) on early August, and i just had a thought of how bad it would be if they told us that our tickets were cancelled at the last moment (we NEED to make that flight, we are seeing the WWE that night.).
Now lets suppose we were told our tickets were invalid for no reason, and the people were not co-operating with us.
(heres the good part)
If i took our a baseball bat and caused $150 worth of damage to the desk, or a window or something, what could i be charged with?
could i serve gaol time?
How much would i have to pay?
Why would your tickets suddenly be “invalid” in the first place? And why would the proper response be taking a deadly weapon and destroying property?
If airline personnel are anywhere even near you at the time, you could be charged with anything from “assault” to “attempted murder”. The fact that you did not hit anyone directly is irrelevant to what you would be charged with.
Unless you’re really young, you could be one of those “minors who gets charged as an adult”. Also, in todays atmosphere of security at airports, you would be lucky to escape without being shot by an anxious security guard. At a minimum you’d be tasered.
Then there is a decent chance, unless you have one of those Omnipotent TV Lawyers, that you would end up being passed around a jail cell as the newest bitch on the block for a while. You eventually would get used to being used as a sex toy for psychopaths (although they will be a little rough with you at times), and you may pick up a certain deadly disease or two from repeated unprotected sexual contact…but hey, you know, taking that bat to the desk was great fun, right?
i was just thinking a ‘worst comes to worst’ scenario, it started out with me losing my cool and yelling at the lady telling her to ‘‘get her ass on the phone and fix up our tickets’’ then i thought about the baseball bat and things went from there.
Its not as serious as it seems.
I was just curios is all.
After you’d got out of youth custody or whatever the Australian equivalent is, you’d never fly again with any airline. So if flying when you want is really that important to you, this is probably a bad idea.
Change your flight to a day earlier so that, if your tickets are dishonoured, you’ll have time to take the train. This costs a lot, lot less than smashing up an airline ticket desk and dealing with the consequences. Also it gets you to Melbourne in time, which is your real objective here.