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.
Stupid woman deliberately offends people then clogs courts with lawsuit and makes the rest of us pay. Maybe she should get together with Cindy Sheehan. At least Cindy can get arrested.
Thanks for that info and link. It could come in pretty darn handy in the next few days around Portland as the moonbats latch on to the story.
Do you think she is changing any minds with her ranting and raving? She is just annoying the normals. The people agree with her will be shouting ... well, I can't really type what they'll be shouting except to say that it is emphatically in the affirmative. But the other 90% of the population will just be offended by her antics, and the Moonbat Left will be further isolated.
This is a good thing.
Hey, she`s wearing a t-shirt proclaiming loud and clear that she supports terrorism. Anybody want to get on that flight? I think not.
Of course, what can we expect from a culture which allows children to do all the things they allow adults to do anyway? What's the draw to grow up? Not much...
susie
she was dropping f-bombs like fart this and fudge that just like she was boxy brown.
the F word is obscence.
hell no. I won't even get on a plane if I see there's an arab on board.
"the F word is obscence."
I don't think any word is obscene. That gives that word too much power - it's not healthy.
I do think that private property owners of places of public accomodation have the right to set dress codes as long as they are standard for everyone.
It's called a breast pump.
Please knock it off with the posting of personal information. Thanks.
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