Burbank Woman Detained For More Than 10 Hours For Painting Nails On Southwest Flight

CBS) ^ | March 6, 2012 11:20 AM

[BenLurkin]

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A Burbank woman was detained for 10 hours after taking a Southwest flight to Houston for painting her nails on board.

Jeanie Daniels was on the flight on Feb. 26 to see her boyfriend, Jimmy Hauser, who lives in Houston. Daniels was painting her fingernails in her seat when a flight attendant asked her to stop.

“I said I’m sorry, I apologize and I put it away,” Daniels said in a phone interview. “About 10 minutes into the flight I discovered I only had two nails left to paint so I thought, ‘well if I went to the bathroom and did it, it wouldn’t offend anyone.”

She found another flight attendant waiting for her to exit the bathroom, and the began to argue.

“She was getting so loud when I was sitting in my seat. I was like, just stop, and I was loud when I said…(expletive) because she wouldn’t end the conversation,” she said.

Daniels’ slip led to her arrest at Hobby Airport. A Houston Police spokesman says the officers interviewed the flight attendant and a witness, then called the District Attorney’s Office to ask if they would accept the charge of “abusive profane language.”

The charge was later dismissed by a judge. After more than 10 hours in jail, Daniels was released.

Southwest Airlines says they will not comment on the incident.

[cuban leaf]

I am so glad I don’t have to fly any more.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

You and me both. Unless I must be across the country the next day, I’ll drive. I get to actually see America that way.

I refuse to be treated like a common criminal simply because I fly.

Ain’t no way, ain’t gonna happen.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Southwest damn well better comment on it.

[theBuckwheat]

I have to go to Vegas later this month from my secure undisclosed location in the middle of the land of the USED TO BE free. It has been a long time since I was able to enjoy the drive, and stories like this one make driving more and more tempting.

[Scythian]

Nail polish is pretty strong stuff to be using on a plane, toxic as hell, what if a guy wanted to do oil painting and clean his brush with turpintine? She hasn’t a brain in her head if you ask me.

[nuconvert]

“A Burbank woman was detained for 10 hours after taking a Southwest flight to Houston for painting her nails on board”

ahh....another talented writer

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Explosive fumes in near proximity to oxygen are not a good idea. Any odor of that type picked up by the flight crew is going to cause concern.

[Darksheare]

She might have inflamed the passions of some muslim who’d have gone sudden jihad on everyone because he was ‘offended’. / sarc.

[KodakKing]

[bunkerhill7]

Nail polish is an explosive.
Nail Polish is flammable liquid..
Nail Polish has hallucinatory vapours.
nail Polish has flammable vapours.
Nail Polish is toxic poison if ingested.
Nail Polish in a plastic bottle can used as a flame thrower.
Nail Polish can be used as hermetic sealing agent for explosives.

[ml/nj]

I cannot imagine why doing ones nails could be a problem, but shouting profanities at flight attendants isn't a great way to handle things. Not that I ever do my nails on airplanes or anywhere else, but I would have asked if the Captain could give some indication like a note on his business card that he was ordering me not to do may nails. If I didn't get it within a half hour or so I would have continued and not stopped unless he came back and told me to stop. And these days, it pays to have a concealed audio recorder on ones person from before entering the TSA security line (which you have to pass through the X-ray machine) as otherwise it will be your word against theirs.

ML/NJ

[Dr. Ursus]

Ding!Ding!We have a winner!

[Wilderness Conservative]

I’m with the Airline. What the hell was this bimbo thinking?

[Timber Rattler]

Southwest has also recently tightened down its Facebook page, stating:

Welcome to the Official Southwest Page! We will not address specific Customer Service issues here. Have a question/immediate concern? Write: Southwest Airlines P.O. Box 36647 - 1CR Dallas, Texas 75235-1647

I guess they don't want customers seeing each others complaints and coordinating anymore.

[I cannot think of a name]

“She hasn’t a brain in her head if you ask me.”

I fly at least twice a month, sometimes more, and this is nothing compared to what I have seen go on. There are times when I actually wonder if the human race has much of a future. And mind you, air travel supposedly draws the HIGHER class of people.

[Fiji Hill]

I have to go to Vegas later this month from my secure undisclosed location in the middle of the land of the USED TO BE free. It has been a long time since I was able to enjoy the drive, and stories like this one make driving more and more tempting.

I drove from the LA area to Vegas yesterday. It took me about three hours and 45 minutes each way. If I had flown, it would have taken me much longer to get from my home to Vegas.

[stormer]

Agreed. Stange chemical smells on an airliner are bad.

[Fiji Hill]

The headline is misleading. She was detained not for painting her nails but for the altercation.