Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Scobelizer posted a video from Consumerist.com featuring the hellish experience of Delta Airline passengers who had to withstand the following:

• 7 hour flight delay
• A quartet of crying babies
• A staff that gives all kinds of excuses and lies
• No food
• No option to go back to the terminal and pick another flight

 
This is probably a valid reason to shout “I have a bomb!” just to be able to get out of the plane. Sure you’d get arrested, but at least there’s food in the jail, right? The plane feels like a prison when in this situation anyway.

I wonder if, in a similar situation, I could file habeas corpus charges against the erring airline?

On a similar note, a disabled, single mother from Beaverton, Oregan was incessantly harassed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) over allegations that she illegally downloaded music from the internet. Their harassments never stopped even after an expert who examined her computer proclaimed that she didn’t have any illegal copies of music on her computer. The persecution even involved threatening to interrogate her 10-year-old daughter.

How did the harrassment stop? When the court ordered the RIAA to prove that she illegally downloaded music.

Andersen finally filed a motion forcing the recording industry to provide proof that she illegally downloaded music. Hours before the deadline to respond, the recording industry dropped its case. [OregonLive]

So the RIAA can harass people with intellectual property lawsuits without any proof? Sounds like the RIAA’s on a witchhunt, burning innocent customers at the stake.