This was real, not staged -- my band, Seattle to Ketchikan...
Posted on 10/06/2005 1:47:52 PM PDT by crazyhorse691
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt that bore an expletive and images of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Lorrie Heasley of Woodland, Wash., 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.
A private company has the right to set dress codes and behaviour standards on private property.
Southwest Airlines -- otherwise known as "Congress"...
A private (or public) enforcing a standard on a privately owned airplane isn't in the jurisdiction of the First Ammendment.
Thankyou.
This was real, not staged -- my band, Seattle to Ketchikan...
Not here where I live, but it might get you killed in Detroit!
" Lorrie Heasley of Woodland, Wash., said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, "
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Another Sheehan poser looking for her 15 minutes of $hame. They're so passe now, aren't they. (boring idiots)
She and her husband left. They arrived home in a rental car Wednesday afternoon.
OK, she was offered an opportunity to stay by making a quick trip to the head for an inside out change. She chose to leave. Next case, please . . .
She has relatives in Iraq??? Did she "Send them to die for Bush's lies" as the left always claims? What kind of women wears a profanity laced item of clothing through an airport where children can see it.
Another reason I'm not longer a democrat, stunts like this.
If her husband were with her, someone could have asked the husband what her name was...
Is that the same code that prohibits nursing mothers from feeding hungry babies?
I'm with you, brytlea. Expectations for responsible behavior used to go hand-in-hand with adulthood.
A stanky skank who has probably never shaved her arm pits
Bullhockey. If we continue to let go of every "slippery slope" issue, pretty soon you won't be able to tell conservatives from liberals. We're pretty far down THAT slope already.
MM
Actually, no. As a carrier serving the public, they might have rules that are unConstitutional in their treatment of citizens, and thus are open to review by the courts.
However, it is unlikely that such a rule would be declared invalid.
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This is interesting, I personally thank the airline for removing her, I'm sick of profanity being publicized and down graded as no big deal. There is a case here in MA, a septic tank company has a slogan on the back of their trucks, Sh*t Happens, their headquarters are located directly across the street from a grammar school, parents are up in arms, liberals are saying these parents need to get a life, it's no big deal, sh*t happens, it's just a cute saying, well, excuse me, but if you can't say the word on tv or radio then it IS a big deal, there's a raging debate going on here on talk radio, most people agree the company needs to remove the slogan but there are those die hards that think it's just a-ok indeed, no big deal......
This woman was just interviewed by Hannity.
He's stooping real low not.
This woman was just interviewed by Hannity.
He's stooping real low not.
Too bad I'm not already in Washington. Still a few years away. I would have been pleased to go visit the store wearing a t-shirt that said --- LORRIE HEASLEY IS AN AIRHEADED SELF-CENTERED B*TCH. (But I would be careful so that no children saw it).
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