Cockroaches Terrorize Couple on AirTran Flight, Couple Sues for $100000 (video).

CNN Reports A North Carolina couple is suing AirTran Airways, alleging that cockroaches crawled out of air vents and overhead carry-on bins during a flight from Charlotte to Houston in September, 2011. The couple accuses AirTran of negligence and recklessness, infliction of emotional distress, nuisance, false imprisonment and unfair and deceptive trade practices, and is suing for more than $100,000 plus the price of their tickets.

I didn't know you could sue $100 000 for the presence of cockroaches. Had I known earlier, I'd have sued my landlord in Boston for somewhere in the Vicinity of $1.6 million. The emotional stress the cockroaches caused was real. The cockroaches were cocky enough to come out in broad daylight and enjoy a beer with us or answer the door if none of us could get to it. Where I grew up there were so many cockroaches that they could have staged a Coup d'état and evicted us from our own house.

but......

Since we are dealing with white people, everything  has to be taken to an unprecedented extreme especially with the charge of false imprisonment. That law was not intended to address this type of situation. Suing is appropriate, the airline was negligent but $100000 is way too excessive ~ such a lawsuit and the size of compensation is bound to set a precedent that may make airline travel more expensive for everybody in the long run.

Bottom line is, you see a cockroach, you get disgusted, you move on and the next time you fly you use a different carrier, you don't get rich!!.....


AirTran is trying to find out how the cockroaches boarded the plane. If they were brought on in someone's luggage, the people may face additional charges ~ $15 for the first, $30 for the second and $50 for any additional cockroach thereafter.

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