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(Other) Lawsuit of the Day: Gay Skydiving Instructor Sues Over Firing

By Eric Lipman

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Well, chute (that's a pun, not a typo; read on). Just when you go and declare something the Legal Blog Watch Lawsuit of the Day, the interwebs (via the tips of friends and colleagues) go and try to prove you wrong. Deadspin and the New York Post bring us the story of Donald Zarda, the erstwhile skydiving instructor who was fired for something he says he couldn't have done. Zarda (no, that's not him pictured, right) is suing his former employer, Skydive Long Island, for discrimination. It seems a female customer (identified only as "Rosanna") who completed a tandem jump -- with Zarda strapped to her back -- complained to management that Zarda had touched her inappropriately, and followed up with a comment to the effect of "Don't worry, I'm gay." Now Zarda claims that the touching allegation is bogus -- because he's "100 percent gay" -- and that the sort of sexual banter in which he admittedly engaged is part and parcel of the tandem skydiving experience, seeing as how having an experienced jumper harnessed tightly to you is the thing that prevents you from dying. Thus, by the bizarro transitive property, the only reason Zarda could have been...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).