Friday, May 28, 2010

Mich. woman sues airline for not waking her

Michigan woman who fell asleep on a United Express flight to Philadelphia says she woke up and was shocked to find she was alone on the plane.
Ginger McGuire demonstrates how she was sleeping during a news conference at her lawyer's office. (Brandy Baker/Detroit News/Associated Press)
Ginger McGuire said no one had awakened her when the plane landed more than three hours earlier. She said she paced the aisle for about 15 minutes early Tuesday until the locked door opened and police demanded identification.

"Waking up to an empty airplane and not being able to get out — it was very horrifying," McGuire, 36, told reporters Thursday as her lawyer announced a lawsuit.

McGuire's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, said his firm filed a lawsuit against United and Trans States, alleging negligence, false imprisonment and distress. McGuire lives in Ferndale, a Detroit suburb.

"For a crew to leave her there and lock her is beyond a gross abuse," Fieger said.


Wow and wow again. They will sue anybody for anything down in the good ol' USA. False imprisonment?
Actually I find it hard to believe that the crew didn't notice her, unless she was under her seat or in an overhead compartment.
Maybe the aliens beamed her up for a good probing and didn't return her until after the jet was locked up.
Some people...

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