Co-workers rat on flight attendant, claim she has rats in her underwear
Posted by: Jon on 07/07/2013 06:37 AM
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A Long Island, NY, flight attendant stands accused of smuggling her pet rats onto multiple international flights and has filed a lawsuit against the airline. Barring any obvious jokes regarding the location of the rats, Louann Giambattista, 55, claims the allegations made by colleagues are "patently false," and is seeking unspecified damages.
Later, during the flight from St. Martin to Miami, a fellow flight attendant “believed [Giambattista] fed her pet rats,” court papers said.
Giambattista, an admitted animal lover, said the co-worker assumed she was feeding her furry friends because she saw her “eating a dinner roll out of a cup.” But Giambattista claims the roll was for her — and that she hid it in a cup to avoid looking unprofessional in front of passengers.
When the co-workers ratted on Giambattista upon landing in Florida, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent questioned her and searched her belongings for an hour, she alleges.
Though no critters were ever found, Giambattista said she remained blacklisted for more than a year, with federal agents subjecting her to stops and searches every time she passed through customs, “making it nearly impossible for [her] to report to work.” ICE agents bullied her and threatened her with a strip search, she charges in court papers.
She claims she was put “on display” during one interrogation in an employee break room, as other airline employees filtered in and out “purely to observe.”
We all know what Samuel L. Jackson would say about rats (snakes) on the plane!
Later, during the flight from St. Martin to Miami, a fellow flight attendant “believed [Giambattista] fed her pet rats,” court papers said.
Giambattista, an admitted animal lover, said the co-worker assumed she was feeding her furry friends because she saw her “eating a dinner roll out of a cup.” But Giambattista claims the roll was for her — and that she hid it in a cup to avoid looking unprofessional in front of passengers.
When the co-workers ratted on Giambattista upon landing in Florida, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent questioned her and searched her belongings for an hour, she alleges.
Though no critters were ever found, Giambattista said she remained blacklisted for more than a year, with federal agents subjecting her to stops and searches every time she passed through customs, “making it nearly impossible for [her] to report to work.” ICE agents bullied her and threatened her with a strip search, she charges in court papers.
She claims she was put “on display” during one interrogation in an employee break room, as other airline employees filtered in and out “purely to observe.”
We all know what Samuel L. Jackson would say about rats (snakes) on the plane!
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