united breaks guitars

This is soo funny! Well, obviously not-so-funny for the musician(s) that it happened to, but he does a hilarious job in the video. Find the lyrics here. The story is actually true...here is more about it from Wikipedia. On March 31, 2008, the band (Sons of Maxwell) was flying from Halifax to Omaha, Nebraska on United Airlines while on tour. While waiting to take off from O'Hare following a stopover in Chicago, passengers noticed baggage handlers in the act of tossing guitars. Dave Carroll notified attendants that the band's instruments were being mishandled but to no avail, and when the band arrived in Omaha, he discovered his $3,500 Taylor guitar had been substantially damaged.After months of contacting the company and being pushed from person to person, each saying it wasn't their problem, Carroll told United he would write three songs and produce videos for each about the airline and how they treated his complaint indifferently. The first single, titled simply "United Breaks Guitars" premiered on YouTube on July 6, 2009, and quickly became an overnight sensation. The video soon achieved over two million views. Soon after the video's success, United contacted Carroll and said they hoped to settle the matter soon. In an interview with the CBC, Carroll said United mentioned they may change their customer service policy as a result of the incident. United also claimed they wanted to use the video and song as a "training aid" for baggage handling. On another note - I know it's been a week..sorry!!! We're painting my room Monday - yay!! I realized today that we have to move 2 weeks from today...and the house is still FULL of stuff. We have been trying to put a few boxes in the car every time we go over to our new house. But there's only so much you can fit in our car. We hope to get a couple of guys from our church with pickups, and help us move...We're definitely seeing light at the end of the tunnel with renovations, though. Yes!