Man spent 3 hour flight on toilet, now suing

I feel so bad for him. How stinky. Well on the positive side he never had to wait in line to potty.

There is always a silver lining. That should be jetblue's defense :)

interesting, because that is against FAA regulations. Was the pilot drunk or is this just a lie.

I wish he got his money back !

something fishy here. airlines are Nazi's when it comes to following regulations...i call shenanigans

This story is just WEIRD!!! Can't believe it got the NY Post cover either.

There is definitely something shitty about this lawsuit. My guess is the passenger was reassigned a seat he didn't like, so he made a big stink about it and protested in the toilet.

The worst part is he was flying on a free ticket called a "buddy pass", which is a perk given to Jet Blue employees to pass on to their friends and family. I bet there won't be any more number 2s for jet blue employees as that perk will be flushed down the toilet.
(Sorry this story is ripe for puns.)

I'm sure he can also sue because having him stay in there for so long has got to be a health hazard. What are all the other people supposed to do if they can't actually use the restroom? Talk about unsanitary!

Did they even offer him a magazine? If they didn't give him a magazine or two this is TOTALLY worth 2 million dollars.

...Come on, 2 million? Thats not gonna happen.

I WISH someone would tell me to go sit on a damn toilet for hours while everyone gets to enjoy their peanuts and 3 dollar water bottles. Sounds like something Spirit Airlines would try to pull.

Maybe the other passangers should have used the cockpit as the loo. Oh wait, that would be called 'terrorism' these days.

I'm really getting tired of these frivolous lawsuits. I mean, even if this did happen, ask for a refund and some tickets to fly first class next time. But not 2 million dollars!

I'm just so sick of stuff like this! How much did this man have to endure from this? All in all, this story sounds weird and needs more facts for me to put the blame on Jetblue but even if there is truth in all this, wipe the dirt off your shoulder and move on! Get what's due to you, of course, but stop trying to buy the whole company for crap like this.

I wouldn't mind being told to go wait in the bathroom on a airplane...I just need my DS and a couple of games....

2 Million is a drop in the bucket for an airline.
In this case, a drop in the 'JetBlue' toilet water.

Someones gonna get shit canned for this. hehe.

1843 results on news.google.com for Jet Blue and most of them have to do with this lawsuit. I thought this was from The Onion.

I'm speechless.

Yes, I too hate frivolous lawsuits, but this is a consumer rights and FAA safety issue that deserves attention.

I didn't see any big national papers pick this one up yet.

I don't understand why he would move at all. If I paid for a seat on that airplane, only a crash could move me.

I think this suit has merit however. It's bad enough to sit in those tight seats, let alone having to sit on a toilet seat for 90 minutes. If its found that they did screw this guy, he should get more than a refund. After all, they make a good chunk of their profits from screwing people and first class.

Hmm. This is an interesting case, the reason for this is the man who was told to sit on the toliet was definally not treated fairly...but at the same time, he was traveling on a buddy pass. Does he warrent the fairness? Not to mention also, I don't think he actually payed anything for the pass...doesn't this register as a priviledge not a right?

Yeah. It is against FAA regulations. I am a flight attendant and if there are no seats left then the passenger has to leave the plane. Simple as that. I really find it hard to believe that he was in the lav.

Last night, when I was grocery shopping, I couldn't use the checkout lane I wanted to because they were "closing" and I had to stand in line at the 15 items or less lane instead, but the person in front of me had at LEAST seventeen items.

My price? 50,000,000.

I'd maybe give the guy a few grand and a free ticket. Maybe. If he can substantiate his claim.

Maybe we'll see yet another airline go under.

lol, just read a website that said the moral of the story is for airlines to install seat belts in the bathroom.

Obviously this is in regards to the FAA statement that "We have very clear rules that passengers must have access to a seat belt for use in case of turbulence, and obviously that couldn't be done in a lavatory. The incident is under investigation.”

I agree something about this case stinks, but here are some other stories that say he could very well win:

It's time again for the annual "Stella Awards!" For those unfamiliar with
these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico
where she purchased the coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the
coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever
think one could get burned doing that, right?


That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and
verdicts in the U.S. The kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So
keep your head scratcher handy!


Here are the Stella's for 2007:
7TH PLACE:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her
peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running
inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by
the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.


6TH PLACE:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical
expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman
apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he
was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.


5TH PLACE:
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving a house he had just
burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic
garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to
open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the
garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to exist
for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry
dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental
anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson
$500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish!


4TH PLACE:
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas garnered 4th Place in the Stella's
when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bit on the
butt by his next door neighbor's beagle – even though the beagle was on a
chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked
for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the
time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the
yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

3RD PLACE:
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania earned 3rd Place status because a
jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she
slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft
drink was on the floor? Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30
seconds earlier during an argument. Whatever happened to people being
responsible for their own actions?


2ND PLACE:
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a
nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover
charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000...oh, yeah,
plus dental expenses. Go figure.


1ST PLACE: (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please)
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv
Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago
motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having
driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly
left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a
sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and
overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's
seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are
you sitting down? $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually
changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski
has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

If you had the crevices of you coochie burnt by hot coffee, you'd be suing too. I agree, there are lots of frivolous cases out there, and half the time, they sound stupid on the surface. The ones with no merit get thrown out all the time. You have to take all of the facts into account, know every detail involved before calling them frivolous. Am I being a debbie downer here?

All he had to say is "No....i would like to stay in the seat that i paid for"

Except he didn't pay for it, Furry Jen.

As a flight attendant, I can't even begin to imagine how this scenario played out...definitely somethin' fishy here. This goes against so many FAA regulations, I can't even begin. This guy's definitely out to make a buck at the airline's expense....funny, since he was traveling for free in the first place.

Needless to say, I'd take $2 mil to sit in the lav any day.