Pilot Accused Of Stealing Passenger's iPod

[Sequoia]

A Mesa Air pilot is accused of stealing a passenger's iPod at a security checkpoint at Jacksonville International Airport, police said.

Police said Christopher Newton was spotted on camera on Thursday taking an iPod out of someone else's container while going through a security checkpoint.

A police officer was summoned after a passenger reported to the Transportation Security Administration that his iPod had been taken at the security checkpoint.

A TSA agent showed the office a tape of an airline pilot placing a container, used to hold passenger's personal items during screening, over another container, then removing an item from the lower container, the report said.

http://www.knbc.com/news/13694007/detail.html

[valerief]

1. This is news? nt

[Madspirit]

3. It's as much news

It's as much news as 42,000 threads:

"Cindy is bad."

"No, Cindy is good."

"No, Cindy is bad."

"No, Cindy is good."

"Paris is bad."

"Nancy is bad."


Personally, I like a little distraction from all the arguing all the time.
Lee

[valerief]

4. I'm not commenting on you posting it. I'm commenting on it being reported

as news at all. People steal stuff all the time. This crap is clogging up media space.

[Madspirit]

8. I meant the OP

It's not clogging up space any more than the 42,000 other repetitive and irrelevant threads, imo.
Lee

[valerief]

16. Threads don't count. KNBC does. It shouldn't be news on KNBC. nt

[RamboLiberal]

15. Yes it is news - and I agree with another poster

I don't mind these stories - find them interesting. And it does beat the repeating ad nauseum threads.

[Madspirit]

2. Wow...disturbing

Pilots make big bucks.
Lee

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. And some people steal because they can

[cboy4]

6. Not at Mesa Air they don't.....and if this person is a first officer,

as opposed to a captain, it's much less.

Have a look:

http://www.pilotjobs.com/default.lasso?page=airline&airline=32

[Madspirit]

7. Kind of irrelevant actually

I shouldn't have even brought it up. The money the pilot makes is kind of irrelevant actually as far as getting to steal passenger's property...<g>

Lee

[cboy4]

10. Oh absolutely. I'm not defending his/her actions. I just thought

you might be interested to see what they earn.

[Madspirit]

11. Yeah, I was kind of surprised!...n/t

[karlrschneider]

9. So he actually admitted it. From the piece:

"Newton admitted to having the iPod in his possession, the report said. He claimed he took the iPod because he said it would just be confiscated by airport employees, according to the report."

I hate it when shit like that happens, but pilots are people too...I've known some who are real pricks, and for some reason most of them are repugs.

edit: what I meant was that most pilots are repugs. ALL the ones who are pricks are too, probably. :shrug:

[DemoTex]

13. IPod? Career? iPod? Career? iPod? Career? I think I'll swipe the iPod!

Poor, dumb shit. Have fun flippin' burgers, Newton.

[karlrschneider]

14. It makes ya wonder just who the hell is up in the front office these days, huh?

jeezus...

[Catherine Vincent]

12. "Everybody's a thief at heart". LOL!