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An Unusual Emergency Exit

A flight attendant on US carrier JetBlue this week became so infuriated with passengers ignoring his instructions that he pulled the emergency exit to leave the aircraft suddenly. 39-year-old Steven Slater was working on a flight which had just landed in New York from Pittsburgh, and told passengers to remain seated until the plane stopped moving.

However one of the travellers stood up and started taking his bags out of the overhead locker, with the crew member becoming angry when he was hit in the head by the luggage.

According to the New York Times, Slater then asked for an apology but the passenger swore at him, at which point the flight attendant “Got on the plane’s public address system and cursedout all onboard,” the paper said. “Then he activated the inflatable evacuation slide at service exit R1, launched himself 0ff the plane, an Embraer 190, ran to the employee parking lotand left the airport in a car he had parked there.” Police arrested him a short time later at his home in Queens.

Desperate for a holiday!

Intrepid Travel’s Perth store has been targeted by thieves, who apparently made a clean getaway using a rickshaw which was on display!

The robbers broke into the Intrepid shop in the early hours of last Friday morning, with Intrepid’s Meg Koffel quipping: “It’s clear to us that there are some people out there who are so desperate for a holiday they’ve taken the extreme measure of stealing a rickshaw in an attempt to escape winter”.

Koffel suggested that the easiest way to get from Perth to Thailand on a riskshaw was to pull it up the WA coast through Broome and then jump on a cargo ship to Bangkok.