Early this week flight attendant Steven Slater gave new meaning to every air traveller's nightmare when he announced:
"Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat-belts. On behalf of the captain and crew Have A Good Fright ;) :P"
What followed made the pages of pop-culture history.
In a dramatic case of air-rage meltdown aired all over the world, Steven became the most famous renegade flying folk-hero since DB Cooper jumped out of a plane with $100,000 in his backpack, never to be found again.
Pissed-off by a disobedient passenger - who refused to remain seated with seat belt on until the plane had landed; and who insisted on pulling luggage out of the overhead rack bonking him on the head in the process - Stevie went ballistic.
Suffice it to say that not only was his language to this passenger colorful; his successive actions of sliding down the emergency chute with unpaid-for beers in his hand hooting: "Yippe-kay-yay mother-f***ers. Take this job and shove it!"- is now immortalized.
"Supporters for Steve" - his faithful fans - majority of whom are well-behaved and respectful passengers - immediately went viral asking for the passenger in question to be "tossed off a 35,000 miles high international flight without a parachute".
Now a major airline wishing to cash in on Steven's fame has offered him a job as their media spokesperson.
No word from Steven as he is mulling thousands of other lucrative offers.
