I gotta say that being trapped in my seat with bugs crawling around would freak me the hell out. Not sure about $100k lawsuit though. I probably would have biatched for some travel vouchers or something.

Well, seeing as though I have one deep-seated, terrifying phobia (irrational fear is irrational but very, real) of cockroaches, I'm sure I would have been shot, tased or otherwise subdued because I would not have stopped running until the panic subsided. I've run over kids in my way before because of this phobia and I'm not proud of that.

Have had guns put to my face and triggers pulled but cockroaches (not the little ones) will send me into a blind terror.

America: the land of big, loud, macho people who know it all and are "rugged" and yet are offended by everything to the point of demanding supernormal compensation.

Jument: if a cockroach "freaks you out", you have issues. It may not be the nicest thing in the world, but it's just a bug.

They're from NC and they're freaked out by roaches? The South is infested with roaches. Even if your place is spotless they still get in. Just call them "palmetto bugs", smash the ones you see, and quickly sweep up the dead ones you find.

Cats work too.

I thought the snakes would have eaten them already.

Louis CK needs to speak to these people

Well, you can't spray Raid everywhere if you're already in the air, but "pretending they're not there" is really stupid.

False imprisonment? Is this actually something you can really sue for if your plane is dirty? Hey, you're welcome to leave, let me get the door for you.

Ugh roaches freak me out. I probably would have gone insane if I had been on this plane.

Nooooooooo!

Ok. Roaches freak me right the fark out, and I could honestly say it would cause me emotional distress being stuck on a plane with them, not to mention worrying about them scurrying into my luggage. I'd end up throwing all that shiat away as soon as I got off the plane. I know a lot of other people would feel the same way.
Plus I'd be worried about sanitary issues if they can't even keep roaches from infesting it.

$100k though, without proof of disease due to infestation on plane? I dunno about that. But I'd at least want the cost of me having to replace and/or thoroughly clean and sanitize my luggage and items, and a refund for the flight. I'd say some free tickets for future trips too, but I don't think there would BE future trips with that airline if it were me. When I pay for an airline ticket I certainly don't expect to be riding along with a roach infestation, so while 100k sounds frivolous, some kind of compensation or refund seems fair.

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I thought the snakes would have eaten them already.

I didn't see that movie, so maybe they worked this into the plot somehow. But why the fark didn't they just drop the cabin temperature?

/sleepy snakes
//problem solved

Ihaveanevilparrot: Ok. Roaches freak me right the fark out, and I could honestly say it would cause me emotional distress being stuck on a plane with them, not to mention worrying about them scurrying into my luggage. I'd end up throwing all that shiat away as soon as I got off the plane. I know a lot of other people would feel the same way.
Plus I'd be worried about sanitary issues if they can't even keep roaches from infesting it.

$100k though, without proof of disease due to infestation on plane? I dunno about that. But I'd at least want the cost of me having to replace and/or thoroughly clean and sanitize my luggage and items, and a refund for the flight. I'd say some free tickets for future trips too, but I don't think there would BE future trips with that airline if it were me. When I pay for an airline ticket I certainly don't expect to be riding along with a roach infestation, so while 100k sounds frivolous, some kind of compensation or refund seems fair.

I think you have to aim high to get an acceptable judgment.
It would bug me out too (NPI).

/live in NYC
//farking hate roaches

The TSA can't even stop cockroaches from boarding the plane? How do they expect to keep a terrorist off?

Ihaveanevilparrot:
$100k though, without proof of disease due to infestation on plane? I dunno about that. But I'd at least want the cost of me having to replace and/or thoroughly clean and sanitize my luggage and items, and a refund for the flight. I'd say some free tickets for future trips too, but I don't think there would BE future trips with that airline if it were me. When I pay for an airline ticket I certainly don't expect to be riding along with a roach infestation, so while 100k sounds frivolous, some kind of compensation or refund seems fair.

How the flying fark are roaches even able to infest an airplane?! A tube of metal that spends much of its time in the air doesn't seem like a very conductive environment.

Among the other claims against the airline are intentional infliction of emotional distress, nuisance, fraud, false imprisonment and unfair and deceptive trade practices.

According to WCNC-TV, Mr Marsh - who is an attorney...

How did I know that was going to be the next sentence.

Airtran's happy about the full flight.

SyFy plans a new "on a plane" movie

NEDM: Ihaveanevilparrot:
$100k though, without proof of disease due to infestation on plane? I dunno about that. But I'd at least want the cost of me having to replace and/or thoroughly clean and sanitize my luggage and items, and a refund for the flight. I'd say some free tickets for future trips too, but I don't think there would BE future trips with that airline if it were me. When I pay for an airline ticket I certainly don't expect to be riding along with a roach infestation, so while 100k sounds frivolous, some kind of compensation or refund seems fair.

How the flying fark are roaches even able to infest an airplane?! A tube of metal that spends much of its time in the air doesn't seem like a very conductive environment.
Probably through a passenger with a roach-infested home. They probably climbed inside some luggage that wasn't properly zipped up.

hailin: Looks like someone wants an expensive wedding...

Also that is why I am glad to live in Montana. I've never seen a cockroach person.

hehe

Rapmaster2000: They're from NC and they're freaked out by roaches? The South is infested with roaches. Even if your place is spotless they still get in. Just call them "palmetto bugs", smash the ones you see, and quickly sweep up the dead ones you find.

Cats work too.

I grew up in Louisiana with "Palmetto Bugs" or what I call Evil Flying Monkey Minions of Satan. You've clearly never had one fly straight into your face at age 10 when you're just turning on the light to go to the bathroom. In any case, I would do like the above commenter said and biatch for vouchers or my money back. Lolsuit is lolworthy.

Rapmaster2000: They're from NC and they're freaked out by roaches? The South is infested with roaches. Even if your place is spotless they still get in. Just call them "palmetto bugs", smash the ones you see, and quickly sweep up the dead ones you find.

Cats work too.

Several visible roaches during a flight on a well lit plane isn't just a few getting in. That points to a pretty significant infestation. Enough that I'd worry infesting my house or wherever I took my luggage. Sound ridiculous? Then you don't know much about them. Doesn't take long for them to multiply. And even if a few don't freak you out, a house can become pretty heavily infested before you actually start seeing them, then at the point you start seeing them they're breeding and expanding so quickly it can be a pain to get rid of them. Not to mention they will actually rip open packets of food and start getting in there.
When I was a little kid my parents had an issue with "water bugs" (oriental roaches). They opened several packages of both paper and plastic food items. Not to mention they're hard to kill. I remember completely soaking one with roach spray and he was still trying to crawl off 15mins later when I finally smashed him. I remember our house going from being seemingly clear of bugs to completely infested quickly, hence my paranoia.

My husband's car actually got a pretty significant amount of them in it awhile back from ONE person that lived in a roach infested house riding in it just a couple of times. Eggs can actually be spread on shoes. Luckily they didn't get into my house because the first baby I saw I made him start going into the laundry room and putting his clothes in the washer, spraying his shoes and luggage down, etc. when he came home (it was his road car (he works out of state a week at a time), so luckily we didn't have to ride in it while he was home from work). It took awhile to get rid of them because there's so many nooks and crannies in a car it's hard to get to all of them. It's also hard to clear every single bit of food crumbs out of a car, and roaches don't need much to live on.

So yeah, make fun of the paranoid freaked out people all you want, but unless you're a nasty motherfarker that just doesn't care about bugs and their droppings all over your house and in your food, once you experience or see a big roach infestation it makes you pretty paranoid about not letting it happen to you.

Oh, and not everyone in the south is infested with roaches or palmetto bugs as you suggest. If you're seeing that many then you should probably start doing something about it, because you likely have a large nest of them. I know several people that live in FL or other southern states, (I in fact live in an area where it's warm and humid a large portion of the year) have stayed in their houses, and I've never seen roaches in there. You just have to stay vigilant with it. Schedule pest control to come in every couple of months or so, whether you see any bugs or not, make sure you get the exterior of your house sealed off pretty good, keep food sealed, don't leave pet food out, etc. No matter where you live there are ways to get rid of them, or keep their numbers insignificant, if you actually want to.

Hate hate hate AirTran. they are worse than Delta.

I'd be more concerned about them crawling into the electronics and shorting something out. Still, that's just disgusting, and I don't feel the payment is unreasonable.

Roach bait with borax is actually a pretty good way to get rid of them or prevent an infestation. They will take food back to their nest where others will consume it and start dying. Killing one roach at a time won't do anything but kill those specific ones. So something like cats won't really help, other than killing the ones that came out into the open. The cats can in fact help spread eggs by killing gravid females.

Ihaveanevilparrot:

Oh, and not everyone in the south is infested with roaches or palmetto bugs as you suggest. If you're seeing that many then you should probably start doing something about it, because you likely have a large nest of them. I know several people that live in FL or other southern states, (I in fact live in an area where it's warm and humid a large portion of the year) have stayed in their houses, and I've never seen roaches in there. You just have to stay vigilant with it. Schedule pest control to come in every couple of months or so, whether you see any bugs or not, make sure you get the exterior of your house sealed off pretty good, keep food sealed, don't leave pet food out, etc. No matter where you live there are ways to get rid of them, or keep their numbers insignificant, if you actually want to.

I would need to destroy the entire woods behind my house. If I walk back there and kick over the leaves - there they are. They come in your house at night when you're asleep by squeezing under the doors and they're primarily out for water. They're in your sink, they're in your drains. They're walking all over your kitchen while you sleep. They're in your landscaping 24 hours a day. Unless you live in a high rise surrounded by a parking lot, good luck.

Sounds like someone is trying to get a down payment of their new house.

Sue for low $100k, negotiate down to $25-30k, instant down payment.

Rapmaster2000:
I would need to destroy the entire woods behind my house. If I walk back there and kick over the leaves - there they are. They come in your house at night when you're asleep by squeezing under the doors and they're primarily out for water. They're in your sink, they're in your drains. They're walking all over your kitchen while you sleep. They're in your landscaping 24 hours a day.

Hide yer kids, hide yer wife...

Harry Marsh is part of the reason American law is a joke. Shame on us, shame on this douchebag. He isn't some kind of courageous crusader, he is a fool, wasting his time in the most meaningless way possible. He should have written a complaint letter and that's it. Instead, "Hmm [biting pinky finger] I'll sue for ONE HUNDDURD THOUSAND DOLLARS."

/Suck balls, Harry Marsh

BigTuna: NEDM: How the flying fark are roaches even able to infest an airplane?! A tube of metal that spends much of its time in the air doesn't seem like a very conductive environment.

1. Pack luggage in nasty white trash trailer home.
2. Check luggage on plane.
3. Profit.

Or

1. Run low-budget airline food operation
2. Allow roaches onto truck
3. Profit.

PraetorianXVIII: Louis CK needs to speak to these people

lol

/straps pots and pans to my donkey

Rapmaster2000: I would need to destroy the entire woods behind my house. If I walk back there and kick over the leaves - there they are. They come in your house at night when you're asleep by squeezing under the doors and they're primarily out for water. They're in your sink, they're in your drains. They're walking all over your kitchen while you sleep. They're in your landscaping 24 hours a day. Unless you live in a high rise surrounded by a parking lot, good luck.

Then you need to be working harder to seal your house. Living in woods isn't an excuse to have a bug infestation. German or oriental roaches spread more in urban areas in places like apartment buildings where there is a constant food supply and plenty of crevices for them to hide and breed in comfort.
As far as palmetto bugs, I do know they may fly into houses through windows and open doors periodically, but if they're going under the doors on a constant basis, I'd try to seal that off better and set roach bait so they won't live long once they get in and spread. If you're seeing them constantly around your drains, your sink and kitchen though, you probably have a nest IN your home. Palmetto bugs will actually live on stuff like paper and wood, so cleaning up food won't necessarily help. You need to be setting out bait and talking to pest control. A lot of infestations start out just seeing them around a water source, so people think they're just wandering in, which causes them to ignore it for the most part, until they end up with a huge infestation.

Well, Mr. Lawyer McLawyerpants, if you didn't want a disgusting flight, you shouldn't have booked AirTran. They're the Greyhound of the sky.

Rumor has it the Air Tran CEO is named Joe and he lives in a New York apartment (new window)

used to work for evil internet travel agency and dealt with several airlines ALOT and those two are the Worst! Except Air France but they are from france so it's expected. The AirTran and Delta agents are ill educated and rude.

Madbassist1: Girl_Friday_19: Hate hate hate AirTran. they are worse than Delta the cheapest airline flying.

FTFY Man up nan...*looks at usename* oh...uh...nevermind.

Jet Blue is cheap too but they are IMO the best airline I've ever worked with. The thing that sucks is their limited routes.

AirTran is Def Cheap but in their case you get what you pay for. White Trash Rates, Roaches and rude ass flight attendants to go with it.

CSB:

Kaitlin is actually the sister of my friend/coworker's husband and they told us all about this lawsuit when I saw them on Friday night. I couldn't believe it when they told me about the suit since it's clearly a ridiculous money grab but I figured it would end up on Fark sooner or later.

Im glad my home dosent have roaches. But in the summer I get ants, they suck but I can live with them. Silverfish are just gross to look at and when ya squash em they make a splat. I guess thats why I let the spiders have most of my place since they kill all the other stuff. My roomates cat brought fleas into the place. And I about killed her for that good thing she was banging an exterminator at the time.

WhoGAS: Have had guns put to my face and triggers pulled but cockroaches (not the little ones) will send me into a blind terror.

A robbery can change very quickly. You have to be ready to adapt to the situation at any moment. Anything can happen. I was on a job a few days ago and my homie got shot in the face!

Cndn Bacon: CSB:

Kaitlin is actually the sister of my friend/coworker's husband my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend who heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw cockroaches at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

FTFY.

puckrock2000: FTFY.

Friend's sister-in-law. One degree of separation. Simple enough for you?

keiran: AirTran. They're the Greyhound of the sky.