Trial of Houston co-pastor for assaulting Continental crew

The forum for general posting. Come join the madness. :)
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
Bob Juch
Posts: 27071
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:58 am
Location: Oro Valley, Arizona
Contact:

Trial of Houston co-pastor for assaulting Continental crew

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:22 pm

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- She's the wife of a renowned evangelical pastor and one of the leaders of a Houston megachurch, but Victoria Osteen is being accused of behavior that wasn't very Christian.

Opening arguments were set for Thursday in a lawsuit that accuses Victoria Osteen of assaulting Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown before the start of a 2005 flight from Houston to Vail, Colorado.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/07/osteen ... topstories
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.

User avatar
juliea344
Posts: 56
Joined: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:11 am

#2 Post by juliea344 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:16 pm

hemorrhoids?

User avatar
Beebs52
Queen of Wack
Posts: 16408
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:38 am
Location: Location.Location.Location

#3 Post by Beebs52 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:18 pm

I have got so many lawsuits backlogged that I could pursue for...

nevermind.
Well, then

User avatar
themanintheseersuckersuit
Posts: 7634
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:37 pm
Location: South Carolina

#4 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:19 pm

juliea344 wrote:hemorrhoids?
It would seem that the plaintiff's lawyers are trying to establish a new medical principle that being a PITA can be contagious.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

User avatar
Beebs52
Queen of Wack
Posts: 16408
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:38 am
Location: Location.Location.Location

#5 Post by Beebs52 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:27 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
juliea344 wrote:hemorrhoids?
It would seem that the plaintiff's lawyers are trying to establish a new medical principle that being a PITA can be contagious.
Well, heck, we know that.

ba da bing ba da boom
Well, then

User avatar
themanintheseersuckersuit
Posts: 7634
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:37 pm
Location: South Carolina

#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:49 pm

Jury finds for the defendant passenger.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404061,00.html
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

User avatar
kayrharris
Miss Congeniality
Posts: 11968
Joined: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:48 am
Location: Auburn, AL
Contact:

#7 Post by kayrharris » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:55 pm

I was expecting that seeing as the pilot and four other passengers flying in the first class cabin testified for the defense.

I have no doubt she might have been rude, but not $400,000 dollars worth of rude.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "
Benjamin Franklin

User avatar
marrymeflyfree
Posts: 600
Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm
Location: the couch

#8 Post by marrymeflyfree » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:09 pm

I think, after hearing tons about this, that Ms. Osteen was probably guilty of being a major bitch with a diva complex - but not of assault. Certainly not of assault warranting that kind of dough.

FWIW, I hear that this FA also attempted to sue an airport employee for assault once as well several years ago. But that could be just a rumor.

User avatar
TheCalvinator24
Posts: 4886
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:50 am
Location: Wyoming
Contact:

#9 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:11 pm

Horrible Headline on that article.

She was not found "Not Guilty." She was found "Not Liable."

That doesn't even mean that she didn't contact the flight attendant in an offensive and potentially harmful manner. It could just meant that the Jury believed there was no Harm (also called Damages), and therefore no Tort.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore

User avatar
themanintheseersuckersuit
Posts: 7634
Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:37 pm
Location: South Carolina

#10 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:15 pm

marrymeflyfree wrote:I think, after hearing tons about this, that Ms. Osteen was probably guilty of being a major bitch with a diva complex - but not of assault. Certainly not of assault warranting that kind of dough.

FWIW, I hear that this FA also attempted to sue an airport employee for assault once as well several years ago. But that could be just a rumor.
Claudia Hall, a former Continental flight attendant, testified by video deposition that she was falsely accused by Brown of hitting and pushing her into the bathroom wall of a plane in November 1995.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

User avatar
marrymeflyfree
Posts: 600
Joined: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm
Location: the couch

#11 Post by marrymeflyfree » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:34 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Claudia Hall, a former Continental flight attendant, testified by video deposition that she was falsely accused by Brown of hitting and pushing her into the bathroom wall of a plane in November 1995.
Yikes...don't want to fly with her in turbulence!

Post Reply