An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues.

Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm filed suit against Boeing after one of its planes lost a door plug mid-air back in January, said he discovered the deflated slide washed up outside his oceanfront home near New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.

“I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” he told The New York Post of the bizarre discovery along the shore of Belle Harbor, Queens.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    1638 months ago

    How have they not grounded every Boeing plane at this point? The company needs to be federalized.

    • @CaptainPedantic
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      The plane is 34 years old. It’s probably more likely it’s Delta’s lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.

    • MxM111
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      Because nobody likes lawyers. If an emergency slide falls on a lawyer, so be it.

      • @glimse
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        I dunno, my lawyer rocks

        • MxM111
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          They are probably an exception that confirms the rule.

          • FuglyDuck
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            28 months ago

            I know a few lawyers who are awesome.

            None of them are particularly rich. Two of them have spent 2 of the last 3 years at the southern border doing immigration cases (I’d say pro bono, but they get paid a pittance by the Feds…. Basically enough to cover a hotel room.)

      • @[email protected]
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        I like some lawyers. Mark Bankston and Bill Ogden are good in my books. Still, never have heroes because we’re all fallible humans.

    • Hildegarde
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      Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.

      • @[email protected]
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        Why have they not outlawed boats? Boats are safer than cars.

        Why havent we killed all the cobras? Cobras are safer than boats.

        Why havent we outlawed kitchen knives? Kitchen knives are safer than cobras.

        Am I doing this right? Its a fun game which deflects blame and changes the subject quite effectively.

        • @Bytemeister
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          The Stay-Puft marshmellow man would never hurt anybody…

        • @Cocodapuf
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          18 months ago

          This post is a braindead response to a valid point.

        • @[email protected]
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          “Am I doing this right?”

          No. You are inversing every statement that follows your questions. Why would we outlaw boats if they are safer than cars as you claim? Did you instead mean to say cars are safer than boats or ask why we haven’t outlawed cars? Rinse and repeat for the other pairings.

          E: You do realize you’re saying the exact opposite thing than the person you’re trying to mock, right?

    • @Cocodapuf
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      Not all Boeing planes are garbage, and they are the cornerstone of domestic air travel. If we suddenly stopped flying them, ticket prices would triple. We have a lot of airbuses and some aging McDonnell Douglas planes, but Boeing probably makes up about half of American passenger planes.

    • @cley_faye
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      At this point, maybe there’s enough people suing boeing that the odds of a random plane piece falling on a lawyer involved rises significantly.

  • Ragdoll X
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    you know what I’m starting to believe that god does actually exist and he’s just messing with us for his own entertainment at this point

      • @Jimmyeatsausage
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        A simulation should approximate reality. What this is, it can’t be that.

        • lad
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          Good point, but that may be some form of contemporary art

        • @Coreidan
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          18 months ago

          How do you know?

            • @Coreidan
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              Lack of evidence isn’t evidence.

              Just because you can’t prove god or simulation doesn’t exist isn’t proof that they don’t exist.

              I asked how you knew, and you gave me an opinion.

              In other words you don’t know, and you can’t prove or disprove it.

              • Jimmybander
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                You are claiming that something is a certain way. The burden of proof is on the accuser. People claiming that we are in a simulation should prove it. I don’t see any evidence of this presented.

                • @Coreidan
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                  There’s no burden of proof. This isn’t a court room.

                  You saying there isn’t a god/simulation is just as much of an accusation as someone saying there is.

                  You can’t prove or disprove it.

                  Since you’re claiming there is no god then by your logic you also have the burden of proof.

                  Unfortunately for you, the lack of evidence isn’t proof of anything. It doesn’t prove or disprove anything.

                  Your claim is just as wild as someone saying the opposite. Either way you’re taking a massive leap of faith to definitively say there is no god.

                  It’s no different than someone claiming there is a god. The position is equal.

                  The only definitive stance you can take is admitting it’s possible. Anything more is bias and opinion.

  • @aeronmelon
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    “Hang on, Margaret, someone just delivered a new piece of evidence.”

    I cannot WAIT for the docu-drama series about all this.

  • Blackout
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    Compared to Boeing, I look like I have my shit together.

  • @mkwt
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    I want to see him haul that slide into court to introduce as an exhibit.

    • @andrewta
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      Not sure what you are trying to say there.

      • @Pronell
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        They don’t like rich lawyers. Few do.

        But we do want lawyers skilled enough to be able to hurt major corporations, and then expect them to work cheap.

        It’s not all that hard to understand when you’re downtrodden. But it is a bit counterproductive in my opinion. (That aimed at the original commenter, not at you, though I am sympathetic to both viewpoints.)

    • @CptEnder
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      Tbf JFK area Oceanfront isn’t nearly as nice as what you’re probably picturing. It’s not like coastal California, it’s cold AF 8mo and rainy the rest. There’s only like 2 sand beaches nearby.