There was an incident at Palm Beach International Airport where an ornery Airtran flight attendant allegedly through three people off of a plane for questionable reasons:

The women — a lawyer, a therapist and a retired travel agent — were complete strangers until they were seated near one another on AirTran Flight 1451 to White Plains, New York. They were buckled in and ready to take off when they said a male flight attendant began mishandling some overhead luggage.

“I said, ‘Hey, I have breakables in that,'” said Marilyn Miller.

Miller said her plea was ignored and that the flight attendant even began shoving other bags into hers. “It was just like a bully and I found myself shaking.”

Passenger Carol Gray also had a problem and requested attention from the same flight attendant.

“I said, ‘Excuse me sir, my seat is broken,’ and he looked at me and said, ‘I’m not talking to you,’ and poked me in the arm,” said Gray.

Miller and Gray said the attendant was getting angry and threatened to throw both women off of the airplane.

“He said, ‘Well, you’re getting off.’ I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,'” said Miller, who was escorted off of the plane into the jet-way.

The women claim two sheriff’s deputies and some airline staffers arrived to take them away. Passenger Karyn Schorr decided it was time to speak up.

“I said, ‘This is crazy, they didn’t do anything. Why are you doing this to them?'” And he said, ‘Throw her off too,'” Schorr said.

The link has two videos on the story (one appearing after the other). One of the three women said something to the effect of “If I am ever on a flight with that guy again, I am going to get off.”

Which, of course, is in good part what they are complaining about.

At least Steven Slater went nuts with style.