How fab would it be after the day from hell to swear at the customers & slide away

[Boudica]

Air steward storms off plane on emergency slide - Telegraph

[dang65]

I can't see how they can charge him with "reckless endangerment". He used a lifesaving device. "Careful safeness" perhaps, but I'm not sure you can charge someone with that.

[thunderlizard]

That is sad, after 28 years. That customer sounds like a nasty piece of work. Big inflatable slides aren't ideal for a dramatic exit either.

[SupremeSpod]

That is sad, after 28 years. That customer sounds like a nasty piece of work. Big inflatable slides aren't ideal for a dramatic exit either.

I agree - surely he could have played the "Suspected Terrorist" card...

[dang65]

Big inflatable slides aren't ideal for a dramatic exit either.

He's probably been daydreaming about that for years and years, working out how he would do it - same as I often think through how I'm going to throw my monitor out the window on the day I storm out. And then this incident flipped him and he probably just went through it without even thinking. Just like I'm hopefully going to do one day. Need to get a job in a really high up office first though. This one's only on the 5th floor.

[NickFitz]

I liked John Gruber's comment: "The best part of this Slater story is that he didn't just grab a beer before jumping down the exit slide. He took two. That's foresight."

[MarillionFan]

That is sad, after 28 years. That customer sounds like a nasty piece of work. Big inflatable slides aren't ideal for a dramatic exit either.

How cool would that be. '**** you and your job!' on the 28th Floor a skyscraper, only to then walk to the store room and...