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  • Flight attendant could get prison for grand exit

    DEEPTI HAJELA SAMANTHA GROSS Associated Press Writers

    NEW YORK — No fed-up worker has ever said "I've had it" quite like Steven Slater. Prosecutors say the JetBlue flight attendant flipped out over a fight with an agitated traveler Monday, cursing at the passengers before grabbing some beer from the plane's galley and making a grand exit down the emergency slide at Kennedy Airport. He has been charged with felonies and elevated to folk-hero status by thousands who shrugged off allegations that Slater endangered others and praised him for his take-this-job-and-shove-it moment. S...