Congressman Bob Filner of California is in a bit of hot water after he got into a tussle with an airport employee. Evidently the Congressman’s bags were slower arriving than he thought they should be. He tried to enter an area that is for employees only and when an employee tried to stop him he pushed the employee.
It appears that this is not the first time Filner has had a display of temper and it might just land him in a little trouble because the employee fled charges. I am willing to bet that Filner’s people will be trying to bury this and get the airport worker to drop charges. They will work this person over to see that it gets “taken care of.”
I travel quite a bit (not as much as the Congressman) and I know that baggage is always delayed. It takes time to unload the plane and then load the stuff on the conveyor. Filner must have been pampered so much as a member of Congress that he felt the wait was unacceptable for a man of his position. So, the best thing to do is to take it out on some poor fellow who is trying to make a living. Filner is a jackass.
I am sure the employee did the right thing. If this guy had pushed me they would be referring to him as the late Congressman Filner. He would have been buried with his luggage firmly placed in his baggage chute…
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