Butch, my point is this: When you post responses about calling the DOT, etc, that's useful, constructive posting. You might include a comment or two that are a bit snide, but ultimately it's still addressing the concern that the poster has.
When you go on a tirade like you did in the American Airlines post, or all the crap about calling the police, that's not constructive. Yes, you did post ONE post that I've seen about drunks getting what they deserve. The rest about calling the police are not the same. You have one post here (may have been in the same AA post) where you stated that if anyone even tries to show that agent in writing the rules, they will get arrested.
Just to fill everyone a bit more on Butch's habits, and why I started this post to begin with:
The other board, as stated, is a discussion about the airline passenger's bill of rights. It started in Jan. 2007. It looks like for the first few months it was kind of like here in that people could voice complaints and it was discussed, with the difference being that it was all about a bill of rights. Also as we have here, there were a few regulars. You have John, an airline employee; Butch, who we all know from here; and Tony from Maine, who is hard to describe in any short form. In a nutshell, he obviously hates the airlines, and will post pretty much anything he can against them. He's posted several news links, but his descriptions always claim that the news link just shows how bad the airlines are, but when you read the article it's not the case. In many cases his description either includes things that aren't there, or takes it so far out of context it's not even funny.
So what happen was, people would post their complaints. John gave the airline side, so to speak. Kind of like myself and PHXflyer. Tony joined later in the game. At first Butch would dispense advice as he has done here, although there was still quite a bit of anti airline comments as well, but no big deal. But after a while it seems he went another path. He really started picking apart what John posted, although John stood his ground and backed up what he said. Then when people would post, Butch would jump in and respond, then state something along the lines of "you'll soon be hearing from John the airline stooge who will tell you......." So it looks like he was trying to discredit the one person on there who really was trying to address things from the airline side.
Some time in all of this Tony joined in, and it got to where they would just go back and forth with John, trying to call him out and so on. The interesting part is John called Butch out on a few things and even provided proof that Butch was full of it, et Butch still kept on, just repeating his same lines over and over again in other posts. His biggest theme there was getting the cops called on you.
For whatever reason everyone seems to have dropped off the radar there back in September. Since that time John posted something in December about the fact the boards had just dropped off, and one complaint which Butch did respond to. But nowhere near the activity that it had.
So my whole point is that we don't need Butch doing the same here, attacking the airline people, clogging up the boards until it's just a war zone, and is of no real use for what it was intended for, discussing airline complaints.
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