Originally Posted by Short Final

I dispair. What is it with people on here and their artistic license ? Detaining someone, really ?!?

Lets face it, there's more than ample time to request offloading before the passenger makes it to their seat onboard.

If they've waited till the last minute, then its their problem, not the crew's. Medical emergency is one thing... but a simple desire to be offloaded is not particularly reasonable when you consider everything involved with that from the airline's point of view.