# United airlines brutally removes passenger after overbooking flight **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171 "2017-04-10T14:04:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/421 "2017-04-11T15:23:39Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > [United’s stock is falling 3.7% and wiping $830 million off the airline’s market cap](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uniteds-stock-is-set-to-fall-5-and-wipe-1-billion-off-the-airlines-market-cap-2017-04-11) (MarketWatch, 4/11/2017) But just yesterday, United’s stock price was up by 1.5% or something like that! And the pro-United folks were saying, looky here, all is well! Who was right, the market yesterday, or the market today? I get _so_ confused. Seriously, whichever side of this debate you’re on, arguing that a one-day movement in stock prices reflects public judgment about an event is iffy at best. That’s as true of today’s drop as yesterday’s jump. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/422 "2017-04-11T15:25:09Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Facts, policies, and procedures won’t matter a whit once this is all settled. The doctor will get a pay day, and airlines will change those policies and procedures to greatly lessen the risk of a similar event happening in the future. One obvious way is to be way, way more upfront about overbooking and deplaning (back-of-ticket small print won’t be considered sufficient). Yeah, all the “OMG UNITED IZ DA EVILZZZ!” have been strictly on an emotional basis. That’s what’s so frustrating to read. This grown man threw a temper tantrum and refused to get off of the plane, when offered (more than) reasonable compensation, and it was adhering strictly to the terms of the contract when he purchased the ticket, and he was selected without prejudice / bias. (Meaning randomly, not bringing race into it) After he kept refusing to move, what was the airline to do? If they move on to the next person, and that person sees that the tactic worked, why wouldn’t they do the same? And the next? If it’s true that the people who actually removed him from the airplane were employees of the airport and not United, I don’t see where he has a case against the airline (outside of a settlement strictly as a PR move, but given the statements the CEO has made, I don’t necessarily see that happening). Now, the airport might have an indemnification agreement with the airlines, stating that any cause of action / lawsuit that transpires on an airline’s property (read: plane) will have all costs reimbursed to the airport by the airline, but, so long as United employees never put hands on the man, there’s really nothing that makes the airline culpable. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/423 "2017-04-11T15:28:42Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > The fact that people keep throwing around ‘uncapped’ like United offered a significant amount of money is also senseless. It isn’t senseless; it’s literally what many people in this thread are suggesting as the solution. What word would you use to describe escalating compensation beyond an arbitrary limit? “Uncapped” seems like the dictionary definition for this concept. > [@](#): > > United offered compensation for losing a day at less than 1% of the hourly rate they’re willing to pay a person to work for them. I don’t find “well, maybe you have to pay someone 10% of a reasonable hourly rate” to be an unreasonable burden - but then again, most of the people arguing in favor of United seem to be against basic capitalism and market principles. I don’t have any clue what worker’s salaries have to do with this. The basis of comparison ought to be the price of the ticket: as others have posted, the going rate for a one-way leg on this route seems to be roughly in the $100-250 range. Offering compensation that is a few times larger than the cost of the product is pretty reasonable. If you get a crappy candy bar, I’d expect that the manufacturer would offer you compensation that would likely be valued at a few bucks, maybe ten at the most – not some random percentage of a Hershey’s employee’s wages. And none of this has anything to do with being “against basic capitalism and market principles,” no more so than the people arguing “for basic capitalism and market principles” have some undefined but objectionable quality that I may wish to label them with. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/424 "2017-04-11T15:28:47Z")
I don’t think it’s been mentioned so far during this thread, but I’ve been amused for twenty years now by this site: [http://www.untied.com/main.shtml](http://www.untied.com/main.shtml) Read the link carefully: that’s not United. This is a complaint site created a couple of decades ago by a dissatisfied United customer. Suffice it to say that UA does not approve of the site, and over the years they’ve taken several legal steps to try to make it go away. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/425 "2017-04-11T15:29:19Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Except what happens in the situation where everyone does it, but an airline still needs to get crew to the destination? That will have to be built in to whatever changes in procedure and protocol emerge from this incident. The _status quo_ is now untenable. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/426 "2017-04-11T15:29:36Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I see a potential moneymaker for airlines. When making reservations, can we expect to see an additional $50 option, after asked if we’d like to check a bag, or a skosh extra legroom. 😉 > > How much would how many passengers pay to insure that they will NOT be in the pool for involuntary “reaccomodation”? Don’t even have to have a price increase. Just pick your ticket contract when you buy (same price either way). One contract allows bumping, including involuntary bumping. The other says once you buy the ticket, you cannot cancel it for any refund and have to buy a new one if you miss the flight. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/427 "2017-04-11T15:29:44Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I see a potential moneymaker for airlines. When making reservations, can we expect to see an additional $50 option, after asked if we’d like to check a bag, or a skosh extra legroom. 😉 > > How much would how many passengers pay to insure that they will NOT be in the pool for involuntary “reaccomodation”? I’m pretty sure it is called full-fare economy. ETA: not literally bump proof, of course, but the odds are very, very low. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/428 "2017-04-11T15:30:20Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > But just yesterday, United’s stock price was up by 1.5% or something like that! And the pro-United folks were saying, looky here, all is well! > > Who was right, the market yesterday, or the market today? I get _so_ confused. > > Seriously, whichever side of this debate you’re on, arguing that a one-day movement in stock prices reflects public judgment about an event is iffy at best. That’s as true of today’s drop as yesterday’s jump. Of course. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/429 "2017-04-11T15:33:17Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Question on that. A flight crew can remove a passenger sitting on the plane for any reason whatsoever, even if they haven’t violated any rules? They _can_… but they will have to later justify their actions. > [@bordelond](#): > > “Any reason whatsoever” might also include protected classes. You’re not saying that a pilot could, say, summarily deplane all African-American passengers? Or maybe you’re saying that the airline, very narrowly, has the _right_ to do that (their airplane) but don’t have any special protection against later lawsuits? I believe that is the case but I am not a lawyer. > [@Okrahoma](#): > > AFAIU United didn’t use that kind of force. The law enforcement professionals (from whatever branch) that were brought in did. Chicago aviation department police. Of course, the Chicago police have a bit of a reputation for bias and brutality. > [@Daylate](#): > > Taken to the logical limit, I suppose this means that if the ejectee had started winning the tug of war, the airline (or its hired thugs), would have been perfectly justified in shooting the miscreant. They were on an airplane. No one had a gun. Even the freakin’ _cops_ didn’t have a gun. And no, it wasn’t justified, that’s why we have courts and lawsuits, for sorting this sort of thing out after the fact. Also - at least one of the cops is on suspension pending an investigation for excessive use of force. > [@Magiver](#): > > As a doctor his medical license should be called into question because of his inability to handle a simple situation. The cops who manhandled him should have their authority to be cops called into question because they couldn’t handle a simple situation. The airline should have its authority called into question because its employees couldn’t handle a simple situation. This wasn’t an in-flight emergency and no one was endangered in this circumstance. Escalation to violence and bloodshed was uncalled for. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I saw some footage that wasn’t fuzzied out. He was of Asian descent, most likely Japanese, and didn’t appear to be fluent in English. He’s also 69 years old, which makes me wonder if there may have been some dementia or another medical condition. > > And is he really a doctor, and if so, what kind? He could have a diploma-mill Ph.D. for all I know. His name is David Dao and he’s a real doctor. He’s of Vietnamese origin. He’s a real MD (internal medicine). But hey, let’s attack the bloodied, dragged out of the airplane guy for being a foreigner, old, and any other reason we can think of. I’m sure the internet will shortly find every shortcoming this man has ever had and there will be new reasons to attack him. > [@Cubsfan](#): > > No chance this dude is really a doctor. I can’t believe he hasn’t been outed yet as fast as the internet is at that. See above. He’s a real doctor. Apparently he’s not a saint, but nothing I’ve seen on him so far justifies injuring him and dragging him on his back down the aisle of an airplane. HE didn’t get violent, and wasn’t threatening anyone else. The police handled this situation very badly. Actually, I could argue all parties involved handled this badly. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/430 "2017-04-11T15:38:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Hey-both the movie and the musical “The Producers” spent 2+ hours or so mocking the idea of selling more than 100% of anything. > > So if I can’t legally sell more than 100% of the shares of a play, and if I can’t sell more than 100% of the shares of company, why/how can airlines sell more than 100% of seats? How: because there’s no law says they can’t. Why: because it makes sense from a number of perspectives. 1. They can only sell that seat once per flight. If someone doesn’t show, they like having someone ready to fill that seat so that they don’t collect $0 for it. 2. It’s also how they let you re-book a flight on short notice for $50-$100. If they couldn’t resell your seat, having to miss your flight would have to be ‘tough luck, no takes back.’ It takes overbooking on their part, which gives the airline flexibility, to allow this policy on re-booking, which gives the passenger flexibility. So in a way, it’s a more or less even exchange between passengers and the airline - or between the passengers in one role, and the passengers in another. Where the deal breaks down is when the airline decides to involuntarily bump people from a plane, rather than keep offering more money until someone accepts. (Daniel Gross at Slate’s Moneybox blog had a pretty good discussion of why $800 just isn’t enough to compensate most air travelers these days for missing a flight, especially when it means they’ll get to their destination almost a full day later.) I’d like to see them be required to up the bidding until enough people voluntarily agree to be bumped from the flight. Or use a system like Delta’s, where passengers give their price for being bumped at the time that they book their flight. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/431 "2017-04-11T15:40:24Z")
Looking at a few tv reports. CNN is reporting that because it was involuntary deboarding, Federal regulations permit the passengers to demand payment, and in the case because they would not be arriving until the next day, it would be $1,350. The passengers could demand that in cash _at the time_. United knows this, of course, but was trying to get it done on the cheap. Another program had an interview with the passenger right in front of the man. That passenger said that the police were basically just ordering the man – not talking to him – and he really didn’t like the police officers’ attitudes. CNN’s aviation expert commented that she’s seen airline crew come up to a gate personnel and say that they need to be on the flight, so the gate person will just deny boarding to normal customers. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/432 "2017-04-11T15:40:44Z")
Quick question. Is the Doctor facing any charges? Was he arrested and arraigned? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/433 "2017-04-11T15:41:57Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Yeah, all the “OMG UNITED IZ DA EVILZZZ!” have been strictly on an emotional basis. That’s what’s so frustrating to read. \ … That’s how people, collectively, tick. Impressions matter. Emotions matter. > [@](#): > > This grown man threw a temper tantrum and refused to get off of the plane, when offered **(more than) reasonable compensation** … I think reasonable people can disagree on this point. It’s a matter of opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/434 "2017-04-11T15:43:46Z")
[Link here](https://consumerist.com/2017/04/11/united-airlines-ceo-passenger-dragged-off-flight-was-disruptive-and-belligerent/#more-10274788). > [@](#): > > Summary of Flight 3411 > > • On Sunday, April 9, after United Express Flight 3411 was fully boarded, United’s gate agents were approached by crewmembers that were told they needed to board the flight. > > • We sought volunteers and then followed our involuntary denial of boarding process (including offering up to $1,000 in compensation) and when we approached one of these passengers to explain apologetically that he was being denied boarding, he raised his voice and refused to comply with crew member instructions. > > • He was approached a few more times after that in order to gain his compliance to come off the aircraft, and each time he refused and became more and more disruptive and belligerent. > > • Our agents were left with no choice but to call Chicago Aviation Security Officers to assist in removing the customer from the flight. He repeatedly declined to leave. > > • Chicago Aviation Security Officers were unable to gain his cooperation and physically removed him from the flight as he continued to resist – running back onto the aircraft in defiance of both our crew and security officials. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/435 "2017-04-11T15:45:27Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Except what happens in the situation where everyone does it, but an airline still needs to get crew to the destination? It was not the passengers’ responsibility to adequately staff the Louisville airport to accomplish United’s business requirements. Most corporations have a division, often called ‘Human Resources’ or the like, to hire sufficient staff located in in the proper areas to accomplish the tasks needed by the corporation. If a corporation utterly fails at this aspect of their functionality and does not hire the staff necessary at the proper locations to operate their core business, that corporation will likely fail. This is normal and expected, as the competently run corporations will out-compete those who fail at the very basics of staffing. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/436 "2017-04-11T15:47:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Quick question. > > Is the Doctor facing any charges? Someone posted upthread that United said publicly that they would not be pressing charges. I am having trouble confirming that online. Meanwhile, [the best I can find quickly](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39563570): > [@](#): > > **Can an airline really treat passengers like this?** _- by Simon Calder, travel correspondent for the Independent_ > > Yes. The captain is in charge of the aircraft. And if he or she decides that someone needs to be offloaded, that command has to be obeyed. From the moment that the unfortunate individual in this case said, “I’m staying put”, he became a disruptive passenger. > > From that moment he was disobeying the captain’s command. Officials were legally entitled to remove him, and as the videos show, he was dragged from the plane. It appears from the evidence that the law was broken - by him, not by the airline. **But I would be surprised if United pressed charges.** ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/437 "2017-04-11T15:53:41Z")
Thank you bordelond. Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/438 "2017-04-11T15:55:36Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > It was not the passengers’ responsibility to adequately staff the Louisville airport to accomplish United’s business requirements. > > Most corporations have a division, often called ‘Human Resources’ or the like, to hire sufficient staff located in in the proper areas to accomplish the tasks needed by the corporation. > > If a corporation utterly fails at this aspect of their functionality and does not hire the staff necessary at the proper locations to operate their core business, that corporation will likely fail. This is normal and expected, as the competently run corporations will out-compete those who fail at the very basics of staffing. But it is also within the company’s rights to invoke the clause when such an instance takes place. I’m not approaching this from a “Wow, they are doing a great job running a business!” perspective; I’m approaching it from a “legal / they are fully entitled to do this” perspective. As someone who has a family member who worked in the airline business, and an attorney, I can attest that, yes, unfortunately, this happens more often than people think, and that’s why they have those clauses built in to the fine print. End of the day, had they not had that language built in to the contract than a great number more people would have been inconvenienced. Keep in mind, three of the four people selected left willingly. Does United deserve poor word of mouth from those three, for kicking them off the flight? Absolutely. Word could’ve spread that they are not a reliable carrier, and people would have voted with their wallets. Was this man within his rights to act as he did? No. He did not adhere to his terms of the contract. When people are protesting in the streets illegally, are the cops within their rights to take them into custody, or do they just get to keep doing what they are doing? God, this response makes me sound like an authoritarian (which I’m not), but this man acted poorly, (in part) leading to the horrible events. Had United not overbooked their flight, it wouldn’t have happened, but similarly, if the man would have complied with the terms of the contract, it would not have either. Fault United for overbooking, but they are not the ones who hurt the man. It was the airport police who removed him from the plane. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/439 "2017-04-11T15:58:16Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > It was not the passengers’ responsibility to adequately staff the Louisville airport to accomplish United’s business requirements. > > Most corporations have a division, often called ‘Human Resources’ or the like, to hire sufficient staff located in in the proper areas to accomplish the tasks needed by the corporation. > > If a corporation utterly fails at this aspect of their functionality and does not hire the staff necessary at the proper locations to operate their core business, that corporation will likely fail. This is normal and expected, as the competently run corporations will out-compete those who fail at the very basics of staffing. What is the source of your expertise of the airline industry such that you expect that the main reason that airlines do not have emergency standby crews waiting around at all airports just in case something happens, to be a sign of incompetent management? Do you assume that this is common practice by most or all airlines except for United? That is, to maintain standby crews at most or all the airports served by the airline to obviate the need to move a crew to different airports to address unexpected contingencies? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171/440 "2017-04-11T15:58:38Z")
[And now this:](http://www.tmz.com/?adid=TMZ_Web_Nav_News) > [@](#): > > The passenger who was savagely removed from United flight 3411 is a medical doctor with a sordid history. > > Dr. David Dao was charged in 2005 with 98 felony drug counts for illegally prescribing and trafficking painkillers. Prosecutors claimed Dao fraudulently filled prescriptions for hydocodone, Oxycontin and Percocet. > > Dr. Dao was also convicted on 6 felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud and deceit and in 2005 was given 5 years probation. > > Dao was also convicted for writing prescriptions and checks to a patient in exchange for sex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-airlines-brutally-removes-passenger-after-overbooking-flight/784171.md?page=23)