A woman on a plane from Seattle to Alaska was tossed in jail when she had the gall to try to sit in an empty exit row seat. The horror!
68-year-old Jean Mamakos was on the last leg of her odyssey from New York to Alaska for a ski trip with friends, and when she noticed an empty exit row seat after the plane doors had closed, she made her move to get some extra legroom. She told Seattle’s KIRO that “One of the stewardesses said, ‘Oh no you don't,’ which stopped me in my tracks.”
Another asked for her credit card (since, of course, it’s a $109 upcharge for the privilege of that extra legroom), so Mamakos went back to her seat instead. That was not the end, however.
“I heard the captain say there is a lady who wants to get off the plane on this flight. So we have to wait. I didn't know that was me,” she said. After being surrounded by a gaggle of airline personnel, she was told “‘You have to get off this plane.’ (I said),’No, I paid for this seat, and I’m going to stay here.”
The cops were called, and Mamakos was eventually arrested, fingerprinted, and booked. Because it was a weekend and the court wasn’t open, she didn’t get out of jail for three days and is now suing United Airlines for $5 million.
[via Gawker]
