Livescribe Pulse Smartpen records heated Delta / airport conversation, leads to chaos

Whoa, Nelly! Talk about a whale of a story. Ben DeCosta, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s general manager, loves gadgets. So much, in fact, that he purchased a Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, which is capable of recording audio onto its 4GB of internal storage space. While details on the story remain murky (disputed by both sides, actually), it’s fairly clear that Ben and Delta didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye on everything. To that end, Mr. DeCosta figured he could flip the recorder on during a private conversation between airline executives and personnel from the city of Atlanta, and now the whole thing seems to have backfired. Ben maintains that he didn’t intend to record Delta’s negotiations, and he even went so far as to suggest that Delta stole his pen in order to discredit him. In the end, the city’s investigation found that there was “insufficient evidence that DeCosta intentionally sought to record the private conversations of Delta’s team,” but that’s not stopping Ben from retiring when his contract expires in June. Hit the source link below for the whole drama-filled thing, but unfortunately, the discussions held on the pen have yet to leak. TMZ — you on that, or what?

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