Seven Reasons We Love Steven Slater

By now, only the dead are unaware of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who took a couple of beers from the plane's refrigerator and then memorably told passengers to take his job and shove it before he escaped out of an emergency chute. Initial reports from the media pegged him as just another airline wacko like Naomi Campbell, with the New York Post calling him a "freakin flier" until the Web exploded in support of Slater. Suddenly he was a folk hero, the best thing since Robin Hood. People as far away as the U.K. have sung his praises, with Brian Reade from the Daily Mirror writing, "So well done Steven Slater for telling one locker invader to '**** off' when she abused him. His only regret should be that it wasn't the old bag and her bag he sent down the emergency chute." And while I can't condone murder, I totally get where all this hero worship is coming from.