Exactly what I was thinking.
I’m sure it was a terrible experience and by all means, seek restitution for the pinky, but don’t expect us to buy that it was embarrassing to the point of emotional distress. This is the kind of claim that gives injury lawsuits a bad name and leads people to think people are just out for a payday and not simply to be made whole. The other thing to keep in mind is that this is a man bites dog story. If this has happened more than once in the history of the aircraft, I’d be shocked. It’s simply not a perfect world, and asking for any more than simply fixing his pinky (which I only think they should be liable for if they had any statistically reasonable suspicion this sort of thing would ever happen, but I hope they’ll do it just to be nice) is like shoplifting- it just makes the world more expensive for everyone else.
I’m sympathetic to the pain suffered, but humiliating public spectacle? Puh-Lease. It’s only humiliating if he did something stupid, which he must not have because he seems pretty convinced it was the airlines’ fault.
