Flight Attendant Sentenced To Five Years For Leaving Bomb Note

[truthpusher]

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/12389.asp

Flight Attendant Sentenced To Five Years For Leaving Bomb Note
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Posted: 6/24/2005 1:13:57 PM
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Former American Airlines flight attendant Gay Wilson was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for leaving a bomb note on an airplane and intentionally interfering with a flight crew.

Wilson, 37, was onboard American Airlines flight 306 from Dallas to Boston in May of 2004 when she claimed she found a threatening note in the bathroom.

The note said, “There is a bomb on board this flt (sic) to Boston in cargo. Live Sadaam (sic)!"

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Wilson confessed to leaving the note soon afterwards, saying she did it because she was having personal problems.

Wilson was sentenced Friday in a Nashville federal courtroom to five years in prison and two years of supervised release. She will not be allowed to fly on an airplane during that time.

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/12389.asp

[sui generis]

1. dur

that's insane.

Five years of free meals and criminal education. She won't be able to work at any kind of career when she gets out. She's a felon who can't vote. She can't fly on an airplane. She probably has some kind of assinine restitution payment that they're going to rescind her supervised release if she doesn't miraculously pay.

It's FOCKING STOEPID, and I would say it to the judge's face.

She did something really really stupid - she needs counseling, probation, etc. Not prison.

Our justice system needs to be overhauled; I for one am sick and tired of paying to make society ill-er with our stupid approach to justice.

[napi21]

5. I disagree with you that she doesn't deserve jail time.

She was a FLIGHT ATTENDANT!!!! There is much more responsibility for an employee of an airline, especially one that is in direct contact with the flying public, than there is for some nut job who just happens to be on a plane and leaves a note. The employees are taught much better than that! Sure she did something very stupid! She also severly inconvenienced the passangers of THAT flight, and who knows how many others because of the delays her actions caused. That doesn't even mention what that kind of publicity does to her employers reputation in the industry!

Your darn right, she'll never work for an airline again, and probably will have a tough time getting any decent job. Troubles or not, she should have thought of that before leaving the note!

[sui generis]

7. Yes, well, I guess if she was completely sane

she wouldn't have left a note to begin with.

She didn't hurt anyone, and that was never her intent.

She did something criminally stupid, but the point of rehabilitation is so that she can return to being a productive, wiser, member of society. Rescidivism is not an issue here. She didn't rob a bank or sell her baby. She didn't think of the consequence of trying to get out of the afternoon flight to take a nap by leaving a bomb scare note, but she doesn't deserve five years in jail, and there is nobody on this planet who can convince me she does.

Again, the justice system in America can stuff it where the sun don't shine, and I can say that since I help foot the bill for their idiotic decisions.

[bennywhale]

8. Someone who behaves in that manner deserves help not punishment.

I think locking her in Jail is cruel. She's harmed no-one and is obviously disturbed.

[bluestateguy]

2. Probation and placement on the Do not Fly list would seem more appropriate

This lady was a troublemaker, but 5 years in jail does not seem to make sense.

[Benhurst]

3. I guess we shouldn't expect things to make sense in

BushAmerica.

[bahrbearian]

4. Whats Ken Lay been doing for 5 years?

Wasn't he at the helm of the GreenBill..???

[ckramer]

6. Five years for a note?

Wow, "only in America".

No, to qualify, "only in Bush America".