... a danger?
Jun 14, 2011 | 8:42 am
#1
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... a danger?
Children's author removed from flight for wondering ... was taking so long.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/..._plane_cursing
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/..._plane_cursing
Jun 14, 2011 | 8:50 am
#2
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Location: Houston, Texas
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Jeez...I guess we all had better watch our "potty-mouths" from now on! This is frightening, because I too have a tendancy to use a lot of four-letter words when I am tired and frustrated. I guess the 1st amendment doesn't apply to air travel in general after all. Wow, just, wow!Children's author removed from flight for wondering ... was taking so long.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/..._plane_cursing
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/..._plane_cursing
Jun 14, 2011 | 8:56 am
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Every day, when I read this forum, I always think of the phrase 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Another example of I can so therefore I will. I hope they hold this flight attendant accountable for their actions.
Jun 14, 2011 | 12:31 pm
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He was, by his own account, feeling tired. The plane was not taking off. The explanation that there was a problem with the overhead compartments did little to soothe his irritation, he said. And so, to no one in particular, he wondered aloud, using coarse language, what was taking so long.
"I said the f-word," Sayegh said.
Perhaps, he recalled, he said it twice. A flight attendant seated near Sayegh took offense. Soon he was being led off the plane by police.
"I said the f-word," Sayegh said.
Perhaps, he recalled, he said it twice. A flight attendant seated near Sayegh took offense. Soon he was being led off the plane by police.
"The ironic part is I'm putting a children's book out in August so this wasn't the kind of press I was looking for," he added, saying there are no obscenities in the book.
Jun 14, 2011 | 5:54 pm
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Hell, that's suspicious behavior on its own. "The guy's from NYC and he's not cursing? Better pull him aside for secondary screening. Something's not right about this."
Jun 14, 2011 | 9:27 pm
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Jun 14, 2011 | 10:09 pm
#14
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I guess I'd better not try to read THIS children's book on the aircraft...
Jun 14, 2011 | 10:45 pm
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It's just a matter of faulty assumption that the passenger was removed because he posed a danger. Atlantic Southeast Airline being a privately owned company, they can choose to deny boarding to anyone they don't want to carry.
If the CEO of the airline just decided he didn't want any passengers who use the F-word in earshot of his employee - the airline can make it a policy to deplane any passenger who utters the F-word.