[friendlydog]

He paid for a ticket, he was seated. Airline is in the wrong overbooking. Everything that happened after that is on them.

Refusing to deboard and getting injured isn't a smart idea in the real world.

Imagine this was any other industry. You can't rent your apartment complex to more people than can fit and have the police shoot their dog and flash bang their kids when they refuse to sleep under a bridge that night because occupancy rates are higher than you thought and you needed to evict them.

[greenbcj]

Yeah… it’s sort of like doctors routinely overbooking appointments, and you have to wait four hours after your scheduled time to see the doctor.

I wonder if the doctor on this plane did this as well?

[friendlydog]

It would be poetic justic if he did, and it merely inconvenienced him, rather than having him brutalized. I walk out if I am not seen within 20 minutes of my appointment and drop the doctor if it happens twice. Doctors who don't respect your time aren't qualified to treat you.