United Airlines is getting lambasted online over its customer service fiasco

The airline became the butt of jokes across social media and among late-night comedians after forcibly removing a passenger.

April 11, 2017 at 6:13PM
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, a United Airlines passenger plane lands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. United said on Monday, March 27, 2017, that regular-paying fliers are welcome to wear leggings aboard its flights, even though two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a flight from Denver to Minneapolis Sunday because of their attire. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, a United Airlines passenger plane lands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. United said on Monday, March 27, 2017, that regular-paying fliers are welcome to wear leggings aboard its flights, even though two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a flight from Denver to Minneapolis Sunday because of their attire. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Social media denizens and late-night comedians are giving their own takes on United Airlines' public relations fiasco that erupted when security officers forcibly dragged a passenger off a plane because he refused to be bumped from an overbooked flight.

Late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel provided United Airlines with a new television ad.

People took to Twitter to make jokes and express their outrage over the incident. Here's a sample:

United re-accommodating passengers.

A new kind of fight club.

Pentagon contracts with United to forcibly remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Was this United's customer training video?

The Hunger Games, United Airlines style.

A little Indiana Jones?

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Mary Lynn Smith

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Mary Lynn Smith is a general assignment reporter for the Star Tribune. She previously covered St. Paul City Hall and Ramsey County. Before that, she worked in Duluth where she covered local and state government and business. She frequently has written about the outdoors.

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