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Posted: 10/9/2005 4:25:28 PM EDT

Woman booted off flight over T-shirt

09:16 AM PDT on Friday, October 7, 2005

ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENO, NEVADA -- A Woodland, Wash., woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt bearing an expletive along with the pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The T-shirt featured a phrase similar to the popular film title "Meet the Fockers."

Lorrie Heasley said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, halfway through Heasley's scheduled trip from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore.

"I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going to war," Heasley told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane ... over a T-shirt. That's not freedom."

Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said several passengers complained about the shirt.

Heasley, a 32-year-old lumber saleswoman, said passengers began complaining after she and her husband, Ron, moved to the front of the cabin in Reno.

She agreed to cover the words with a sweatshirt, but when the sweatshirt slipped while she was trying to sleep, she was ordered to wear her T-shirt inside-out or leave.

She and her husband left. They arrived home in a rental car Wednesday afternoon.

McInnis said Southwest rules allow the airline to deny boarding to any passenger whose clothing is "lewd, obscene or patently offensive."

But Allen Lichtenstein, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union in Las Vegas, said it "might be problematic" that the airline "changed rules in the middle of a flight."

Heasley said she has been in touch with ACLU lawyers in Seattle, and wants Southwest to reimburse her for the last leg of the trip.

Posted: 10/9/2005 4:38:01 PM EDT

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Civil Liberties are against a .gov, not a private company.

You get booted off an airplane for being a dumbass.....

Posted: 10/9/2005 4:52:03 PM EDT

[#2]

If I'm reading in between the lines correctly, this t-shirt had the REAL f-bomb on it, right?

Regardless of what politics you have the chick should've been booted off the plane. It's blatantly offensive. The fact that she would rather leave the plane than turn her t-shirt inside out is ridiculous.

Posted: 10/9/2005 4:57:52 PM EDT

[#3]

I think the passenger is trying to make the point that if the airline felt the shirt was offensive, they should have never let her on the plane in L.A., rather than taking her to Reno and throwing her off. I have to agree with that sentiment. She should have never been allowed on the plane in the first place, rather than be subjected to the whim of the mob (other passegers). The crew is supposed to call the shots, not the passengers. The airline should pony up for the trip from Reno for neglecting their duty.

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:03:31 PM EDT

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I think the passenger is trying to make the point that if the airline felt the shirt was offensive, they should have never let her on the plane in L.A., rather than taking her to Reno and throwing her off. I have to agree with that sentiment. She should have never been allowed on the plane in the first place, rather than be subjected to the whim of the mob (other passegers). The crew is supposed to call the shots, not the passengers. The airline should pony up for the trip from Reno for neglecting their duty.

I think that the flight crews have so many things that they are responsible for when a flight takes off that reading everyone's shirt is pretty low on the list.

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:04:27 PM EDT

[#5]

Are you arguing with me, WOMAN?!?!?!?

(ETA: I can't believe you let this ride.)

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:18:40 PM EDT

[#6]

uh... uh...

didn't someone want to comment about the militia?

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:21:45 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/9/2005 5:22:05 PM EDT

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The flight crew should have just told the offended passengers to STFU and enjoy their flight. Upon completing their contract with the classless passenger they should have invited her to never use their business again.

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:27:08 PM EDT

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Phil is in for the save!!!!

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The flight crew should have just told the offended passengers to STFU and enjoy their flight. Upon completing their contract with the classless passenger they should have invited her to never use their business again.

I'd love to hear that over the PA system.

Posted: 10/9/2005 5:43:06 PM EDT

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Civil Liberties are against a .gov, not a private company.

You get booted off an airplane for being a dumbass.....

+1.

Posted: 10/9/2005 6:21:23 PM EDT

[#11]

Do I hear a BEEEAAAATCH

Posted: 10/9/2005 6:32:15 PM EDT

[#12]

Put 2 caps in her and call it a GOOD DAY!

Liberal maggot.

Posted: 10/9/2005 7:15:05 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I think the passenger is trying to make the point that if the airline felt the shirt was offensive, they should have never let her on the plane in L.A., rather than taking her to Reno and throwing her off. I have to agree with that sentiment. She should have never been allowed on the plane in the first place, rather than be subjected to the whim of the mob (other passegers). The crew is supposed to call the shots, not the passengers. The airline should pony up for the trip from Reno for neglecting their duty.

From what I have heared on the different radio shows she took off a sweatshirt and reveiled the offensive shirt after boarding and take off.

Kirby had some clips(from the Hanity and combs(sp) show) on his show Friday morning, she sounded like she had a 8th grade education and 4 grade mentality, when Hanity asked her repeatedly why she wore it and she gave the standard libtard non-answer over and over, she finaly said something like " because I woke up in america that morning

".

Private property/ownership means NOTHING to these people, and that is what I beleive it boils down to. If she wore that shirt in my buisness,property, home ect I would throw her ass out too, because it is MY property and I make the rules, same goes for the airlines.

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:02:41 PM EDT

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If she wore that shirt in my buisness,property, home ect I would throw her ass out too, because it is MY property and I make the rules, same goes for the airlines.

In all absolute fairness, nothing the libtards know anything about, "No Spin/ Fair and Balanced"........

1) After our $5B bailout, they should be .fed property.

2) There is no reason why we should pay for security on private airlines.

3) They should be declared what they truly are.........

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:12:52 PM EDT

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If she wore that shirt in my buisness,property, home ect I would throw her ass out too, because it is MY property and I make the rules, same goes for the airlines.

In all absolute fairness, nothing the libtards know anything about, "No Spin/ Fair and Balanced"........

1) After our $5B bailout, they should be .fed property.

2) There is no reason why we should pay for security on private airlines.

3) They should be declared what they truly are.........

www.rocafella.com/Images/film_StateProperty.jpg

1) $5B bailout, its probably a low number, and in the end will be alot more.

2) Can't agree more.

3) Yep

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:15:16 PM EDT

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If I'm reading in between the lines correctly, this t-shirt had the REAL f-bomb on it, right?

I saw this same shirt at the local Spencer Gifts. It definitely has the f-bomb on it.

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You get booted off an airplane for being a dumbass.....

+1

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:16:21 PM EDT

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If I'm reading in between the lines correctly, this t-shirt had the REAL f-bomb on it, right?

I saw this same shirt at the local Spencer Gifts. It definitely has the f-bomb on it.

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You get booted off an airplane for being a dumbass.....

+1

Yes dear.

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:23:01 PM EDT

[#18]

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Yes dear.

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:27:20 PM EDT

[#19]

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Yes dear.

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tease!

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:28:23 PM EDT

[#20]

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tease!

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:45:33 PM EDT

[#21]

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Yes dear.

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tease!

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:47:10 PM EDT

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Yes dear.

smiley.onegreatguy.net/kinky.gif

tease!

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RS? I Love you man!

Posted: 10/9/2005 8:53:14 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
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If she wore that shirt in my buisness,property, home ect I would throw her ass out too, because it is MY property and I make the rules, same goes for the airlines.

In all absolute fairness, nothing the libtards know anything about, "No Spin/ Fair and Balanced"........

1) After our $5B bailout, they should be .fed property.

2) There is no reason why we should pay for security on private airlines.

3) They should be declared what they truly are.........

www.rocafella.com/Images/film_StateProperty.jpg

Absolutely!

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