Posted on 04/16/2015 2:56:07 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
A woman was removed from a flight Thursday afternoon after she “poked” her seatmate with a pen to stop him from snoring before takeoff at Midway Airport, authorities said.
The customer on Southwest Airlines Flight 577 poked the person in the next seat with a pen to keep him from snoring, a statement from Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King said.
The woman was removed from the flight and the plane took off for Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, according to the statement. No one was injured.
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Where is Marty Cobb when you need her, lol?
Had she put on her burka first she’d have been able to cut off the guy’s head and still stay on board.
Watch out, mister! I have a phone and a pen.
Only in modern America could so many normal human interactions lead to great expenses and cops and government and formal and elaborate reactions.
Until a few decades ago, everything was just handled by the people who were there.
Is snoring a form of micro-agression? She probably felt threatened.
"Is this your pen?"
Great. Now TSA will confiscate all writing devices.
Hillary! flew back commercial, today. Just sayin’...
In the America I grew up in, only a psychopath would poke a stranger with a pen. I still don’t regard it as a normal human interaction.
I can’t imagine anyone doing that.
Hopefully,the lady was removed from the plane while the plane was on the ground.
The proper action would have been to summon the stewardess, then express concern that the snorer “has a medical condition”, so it may not be safe for them to fly. This would make the argument between the snorer and the airline.
Great pun, though.
Pen or p-I-n? I think there would be a difference. Some people, you just don’t really want to touch.
Oldplayer
Assaulted by a pen! Seems overreaction but she should have asked the flight staff to address the issue or, as I do, put on some ear plugs. Wonder if there is more to this story?
Are we talking about a straight pen, safety pin or a writing pen?
I didn’t mean that her act was normal, but that these kind of things that we read about all day used to be part of life and we were expected to deal with them, or us and the people there.
Today, insults, a small scuffle, a weirdo poking you with something, or bumping your seat, or all kinds of things, requires the government or big time authorities to get involved.
Poking someone with a pen, that you were sitting next to, was not exactly freakish and unheard of 50 years ago.
Pen, not a pin.
Poking them doesn’t work. You have to pinch their nostrils shut so they are forced to breathe through their mouth :)
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