Man kicked off Southwest flight for vodka joke: 'You can’t say anything to anyone'

Yahoo Lifestyle ^ | May 14, 2019 | Elise Solé

[EveningStar]

A man was thrown off of a Southwest Airlines flight for a joke about vodka, which was allegedly directed at a surly crew member.

As first reported by Fox 40, the unnamed passenger was escorted off the Wednesday flight from Sacramento, Calif., to Austin, Texas, for making a joke after a long delay that made the cabin and crew annoyed and restless.

[BeauBo]

From the article:

"“We returned to the gate to wait for maintenance and to refuel, and then waited for clearance from air traffic control —in all, we were delayed by three to four hours,” Uzelac, 70, tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

When a young flight attendant distributed water, Uzelac says the man seated next to him joked, “Wow, I hope that’s vodka because we’ve been sitting here for so long.”

According to Uzelac, the attendant replied brusquely, “Yeah, it’s vodka” and when she moved to another row, the man joked, “Hey, this isn’t vodka.”"

That was it.

[Joe Bfstplk]

Sounds like the flight attendant had the PMS virus! ;-)

>><<

My ex suffered from Perpetual M S.

[FRinCanada2]

Is that an original of yours? If not where did you get it

You earned 10,000 cool points for that one

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The friend of my rabbi, when he saw him on a plane, stood up and said hi Jack. The air marshals weren’t amused. Guess they never saw a rabbi on a plane before.

[A_perfect_lady]

“She said something like, ‘We’re all tired here. And that’s no way to speak to a passenger,’” he tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “They argued about it. I tried filming but my phone wasn’t working.”

Okay, clearly there's more going on here than we heard about. She didn't kick him off for saying "Hey, this isn't vodka." She came back and there was an argument, and we don't know what was said because somehow the phone wouldn't record.

[BeauBo]

[dfwgator]

[Rusty0604]

I don’t get what was so offensive.

[SandwicheGuy]

A CIA Director, FBI Director and former Attorney General walk into a... Barr

THAT was quite clever. Kudos.

[Jamestown1630]

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I enjoy responding, because - believe it or not - most of the service I receive is good to excellent.

(If the service was lousy, I just decline :-)

[yoe]

Hello, this is Mr. Allen.

[Texan4Life]

Only the passenger that made the joke was booted off.

From the article:

Vexing to Uzelac are rumors that the passenger was unruly. “If anyone was unruly, it was me,” he admits. “I feel bad for the guy — he should sue the airline.” Uzelac himself filed a formal complaint with the carrier.

[BatGuano]

Did you hear about the Flight Attendant?

She was so dumb, the other two noticed!

[thefactor]

I hate headlines like this. He was not thrown off the plane for saying something about vodka. He was thrown off the plane for what transpired well after the vodka comment. If it was just the vodka joke, nothing would have happened.

It's akin to where a headline states "Man Arrested for Illegally Selling Lemonade!" When in actuality he was arrested because after he was told to stop selling lemonade he assaulted the cops and resisted arrest.

[EveningStar]

It seems like headlines are written by junior staffers.