Passenger pulled from flight for T-shirt
 

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Master Baiter? What are we 12 years old and in 1998 again? How do people think shit like this is funny?

I have a hatred of "funny" or offensive t-shirts so this is justified if you ask me. Goes along the same lines as those idiot "Brat" or "I love niggers" or "I love pussy" with a cat on it shirts.

He should be teabagged by the fashion police, not kicked off a plane.

I am lewd, obscene and patently offensive.
It's a good thing i don't fly Southwest.

I wanna fly on that Hooters airline.

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God, what is wrong with our society?

It is a silly reason to kick someone off the flight.

However, the shirt was in poor taste, and I support any companies right deny service to someone who won't conform to their policies.

Just like if I want to open a club and enforce a dress code, I should have the right to boot someone who refuses to comply.

They should have made him turn his shirt inside out and do the walk of shame like the moron he was, is, and will continue to be based on his clothing.

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Man, I totally said teabag in this thread.

Hahah... tasteless!

If this was the first time that this airline had done something like this I would agree however reading a few similar stories about women being told they're dressed too provocatively to fly gets my back up, specially from an airline that has had it's stewardesses in hot pants. Can we say hypocritical?

Sounds to me like South west employees need a more specific example of "lewd or offensive" cause to me if a woman wants to wear a mini skirt or a halter neck dress on a flight she should be allowed to.


Maybe that's just me speaking from the Aussie stand point though since in summer here it's too hot to wear more then minimal clothing.

This pretty much sums up how I feel about the situation though

With airport security and their "clothing morals", we should all wear hospital gowns to the terminals.

Make it a lot easier to deal with all this procedural crap.

They did.
Then perhaps they should develop one.

Although...I'd say that they were well within their rights to do exactly what they did. And, frankly, I don't blame 'em a bit. It may just be Southwest, but it still ain't Greyhound. Have a little class for chistsakes.

I blame the hops! And barley. Barley, you bastard.

Hahahaha, wow, I totally missed that part.

the guy should be made fun of for wearing a t-shirt that proves he is an assclown, but i don't see how it is offensive. it's a dumb play on words, double entendre, but you are only offended if you choose to see it that way. the people who would be offended are the dirty minds here. if someone is good at baiting a hook, and is a master at it, he can be a master baiter. stupid, childish, but only offensive if you want it to be. right up there with those "big rod" shirts. clownshit, but not offensive.

i have never seen an "i love niggers" shirt. i can understand how that might be offensive. i guess.

Wow, that shirt is so offensive that I don't even want to quote it.

HEY! YOU! That worm is a phallic symbol.

Don't even get me started with the tongue.

ROFL...
...masterbater.

i admit, i felt a bit weird typing it...i might have even looked over my shoulder as i did....

I don't see what the big deal is. Businesses reserve the right to refuse anyone service. Personally, I find such juvenille humor tasteless. Yeah... Master Baiter was funny when I was, like, 8.

I grab my dick and double click? wow, people are so uptight, holy crap its a a childish humor shirt, if someone is paying your stupid airline hundreds of dollars, just deal with it, making a scene out of this crap just makes your airline look bad.

WOW, you equate this to the career ending, possible jailable, life threatening, "word that must not be named"?

Also you find "Cork Soakers" and "Colonel Angus" hilarious, but you have a pure hatred for this?

Interesting.

Oh no, someone found out that juvenile behavior in public has minor consequences at times.

i can't believe people on here are defending the airline!!!? it's unreal that a paying customer should be discriminated against for wearing a t-shirt that some humourless flight attendant might take mild offense to...
sometimes i really think we are going backwards as a society rather than forwards

It's a fucking T-shirt....

That's the problem that people seem to miss in most of these threads, that there are consequences to actions. Sometimes they are enforced and other times not. It is IMO no different than speeding in a pack of cars down the highway and the officer singles him out. He wonders why did I get the ticket? well because you were speeding... In this case he was wearing a potentially offensive shirt.

As far as the recent girl who wasn't allowed to fly because her skirt was too short, when she appeared on one of the morning programs they fuzzed out the beaver shot she gave the camera.

so a tshirt with two people fucking on it, acceptable since it's just a tshirt?

Acceptable to whom? To me? I couldn't care less.

Hahahah... OH NO! (makes Godzilla noises)

Corporations will be the last refuge of morality.

The shirt he was wearing might be somewhat juvenile but I don't think offensive enough to be kicked off the plane. A spokesman for the airline agrees and has apologized to the man.
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I'm wondering when they're gonna starting handing out standard issue flight suits.

-Will

Figure A: Douchebagus Maximus

Almost remonds me of those "Big Johnson" T-shirts they made back in the 90's.

what's more shocking is this:

whaaaaaaaaaa?

seriously, people should be able to wear whatever the hell they want, no matter how much of a douche bag their clothes makes them look

I agree with casual user...

Getting kicked off for the tshirt isn't very surprising if you read about the hooters waitress they kicked off for what she was wearing

I have no problem with that whatsoever.

But...said people should also not be surprised, nor indignant, when they are asked to take their business elsewhere.

perhaps, but given the intense competition and extremely thin profit margins in the airline industry, maybe they should focus on serving the CUSTOMERS' needs and not their own sense of propriety.

I guess I just fail to see how the customer needs to wear clothing better suited to a frat party. If you are an adult, and want to be treated like an adult, then act (and yes, even dress) like an adult. I view this less as a matter of comfort, and even less as a matter of free speech, than I do as a lack of respect for those around you.

It frosts my nuts, when I take my wife to the symphony (yes, Omaha actually has a good one), the ballet, the opera, the playhouse, or even a fancy restaurant, and I see that guy. The guy that always wears the jeans and t-shirt. There is a time and a place for that. Have a little class. Have a little dignity. Have a little respect, and learn which is which.

Now, Southwest may be a "low-end" airline, and the days of dressing in a suit and tie, for air travel, are long gone, but when did traveling by air become akin to traveling Greyhound?

He's riding an airplane, not going to a symphony. This is on the back of his shirt no less. How many people are going to see it once he's taken his seat? This is just a case of people being way too oversensitive.

I didn't see the guys age, but if he is the guy in that picture, he is a douche bag for wearing a shirt like that at his age in public.

Seriously, I know most of you kids don't see anything wrong with it, but its juvenile.

it's total bullshit, IMO. people get offended by the most ridiculous stuff these days. i find it asinine that they would make him turn his shirt inside out.

then again... since they are offering up free tickets to the offended, then perhaps it might be worth the embarrassment.

sure it may be, but does it warrant being singled out like that on a plane? as has been said above, if the guy wants to look like an ass-hat, then that is his prerogative, right?

I wouldn't waste any breath defending the guy. Turning a t-shirt inside out for a joke he knew was offensive (after all, that's why it's "funny", right) is pretty minor compared to the real denials of free speech that are occurring out there. Airlines are private industries (though, as often as they are bailed out by the gov't, they don't seem like it at times) and have the right to deny service to anyone.

i'm not really defending the guy, as much as i'm questioning why everyone is getting bent out of shape by Master Baiter.

if you want really offensive clothing, head over to Teeshirt Hell and pick you up a "Fuck the Color Blind" or maybe a "Slavery Gets Things Done" shirt. Then we can talk about offensive.

sorry... i just think people get cheesed at stupid shit.