Air hostess sacked after picture
showing her giving passengers the "finger" goes viral on twitter.
- Flight attendant Tatiana Kozlenko worked for Russian airline Aeroflot
- She posted the picture on social networking site Vkontakte
- Image then went viral after being reTweeted hundreds of times on Twitter
- Ms Kozlenko claims it isn't her in the picture, which appears to show the arm of an air hostess giving the finger to a cabin full of passengers
PUBLISHED: 23:00 GMT, 5 February 2013 | UPDATED: 07:46 GMT, 6
February 2013
An
air hostess who posted a picture of herself giving her passengers the finger
has been sacked by Aeroflot airline bosses in Russia after it ended up on
Twitter.
Flight
attendant Tatiana Kozlenko put the snap up on her personal page on Vkontakte,
one of Russia's most popular Facebook-style social networks.
Within
hours the snap - which appears to show the arm of an air hostess giving the
finger to an airplane cabin full of passengers - had clocked up dozens of
'likes'.
But
the image then went viral after it was posted on Twitter and reTweeted by
hundreds of users.
Aeroflot
airline bosses soon found out about the photo and fired Ms Kozlenko.
Aeroflot
- who announced the sacking on their Twitter account - said: 'Posting this
photo shows Tatiana’s attitude towards passengers and her duties. She
acknowledged her fault when she spoke to her managers.'
But
Ms Kozlenko claims it isn't her arm in the snap - or even one of her her
airline's planes.
She
admitted that she tagged herself in the photo, which doesn't show anyone's face
- but claims it isn't her.
'I
don’t consider myself guilty! The photo was added to my page, I only tagged
myself on it!!! The hand isn’t mine, the plane is not my company’s!!! I don’t
understand what they spoil my life for!!! I’m asking you for help and
support!!' she said on her Vkontakte page.
Axed:
Aeroflot bosses fired Ms Kozlenko after the image went viral on the internet
(stock image)
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Ms
Kozlenko is not the first to get in trouble over making the gesture.
In similar fashion a teenager by the name of
Penelope Soto (pictured below) was jailed for thirty days after sticking her finger up at a judge
during sentencing yesterday.
Soto
- who was in court after being arrested for drug possession - made the gesture
after Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat doubled the amount of her
bond.
As
a result she was hauled back in front of the judge and given a jail sentence
for contempt of court.
Another
woman was forced to apologize after an image of her flashing her middle finger
at Arlington National Cemetery (can u imagine!!!!) sparked widespread disgust across the web and
prompted an online petition to get the woman fired from her job.
Lindsey
Stone posted the picture of herself making the obscene gesture at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier, next to a sign at the military cemetery that asks for
'Silence and Respect,' in October and the snapshot quickly went viral.
Stone
issued an apology for the picture calling her gesture a 'visual pun' and saying
she now realizes the picture 'was in incredibly poor taste'.
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