The ultimate revenge and you can dance to it:
Guitarist's anti-airline hit takes off
Agence France-PresseJuly 10, 2009 07:30am
AN irked Canadian musician who accused United Airlines of breaking his prized guitar has taken his revenge, writing a song that has become an internet hit and a public relations disaster for the airline.
Dave Carroll composed “United Breaks Guitars” and posted it on YouTube after he said the airline damaged his treasured Taylor acoustic at Chicago's O'Hare airport last year.
”We were sitting at the back of the plane with the band, and a woman who didn't know we were musicians yells out, 'Oh, my God they're throwing guitars outside',” Carroll said.
After months of trying to get the airline to pay compensation and help repair the 3,500-dollar- instrument ($3844), Carroll changed tack.
”I had this sort of epiphany,” he told the Canadian Broadcasting Company, “I'm going to write... songs about your airlines and I'm going to put them on YouTube and talk about my experience.”
“United Breaks Guitars” has received more than half a million views on YouTube and had been covered by major news networks in Canada and the United States.
The video features the folk-rockers looking on in horror as United ground staff play clumsy catch with the guitar case and pound it with mallets.
”This struck a chord with us,” Robin Urbanski, spokeswoman for Chicago-based United, told the Chicago Tribune.
“We are in conversation with one another to make what happened right.”
link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25759907-5014090,00.html?ref...
Antik Batik
I hope they compensate him!
I hope they don't make anymore clumsy puns either.
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1"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
I like the “We are in conversation" stuff. In other words, we are haggling over what to pay him to get him to pull the video.
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"I will marshal all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide." - In the Loop
3That's awesome! Good for them! Striking back! Maybe other musicians will think twice before flying United.
It's a catchy tune too!
I especially like the tired mean stewardesses.
I'd be so pissed if that happened to me!!!
Good for him for making this song. Pretty good too.
"I should have flown with someone else or gone by car...because United breaks guitars."
4awesome
5i can really feel for them - terrible feeling when your lady is broken - thank you for sharing - Samantha
What a creative way to complain about bad customer service! I really hope that United will compensate him now!
Where do you find all these stories, Sam???
6My ex-husband works for United.
7Martini - this one from Australia. i like the weird and freaky stories.
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"I will marshal all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide." - In the Loop
Well, keep posting them - I am relying on you for my entertainment these days!
9The Presssssssssure!
I will try my best.
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"I will marshal all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide." - In the Loop
I remember years ago when an airlines broke the back of my guitar. It was not, fortunately an expensive one but because I didn't notice it until I got home and played it several days later, the airlines denied culpability. They suggested that I should have told them at the airport that it was broken. Explaining that one didn't normally remove all parts from cases to check while still at the airport fell on deaf ears. It really made me angry at the time.
11I still have the guitar too...unrepaired, unfortunately. Of course, some people have suggested that the guitar broke itself after hearing me play and sing.
"Of course, some people have suggested that the guitar broke itself after hearing me play and sing."
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12awww
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"I will marshal all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide." - In the Loop
Yeah, you're funny Eleu!
That little joke though resembles me too. 
Everyone, "Run away!"
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13"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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