Posted on 06/16/2011 2:21:47 PM PDT by rawhide
Entire plane evacuated for man's refusal to pull up his pants. He was flying home to attend best friend's funeral
Can a baggy-pants fashion trend land you in jail and clear a plane before takeoff? It can in San Francisco International Airport.
Deshon Marman, a 20-year-old football star from San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, was asked to pull up his sagging pajama pants before his U.S. Airways flight home -- a flight to take him to his best friend's funeral. Marman's friend, David Henderson, was shot and killed on those same Bayview streets.
Marman told his mother (see video) that he at first refused, saying his hands were full. He then went to his seat, where he did pull up his pants, his mother said.
By that time, the pilot had ordered the plane evacuated. He then made a citizen's arrest, according to the airline.
Marman, a standout player at the University of New Mexico, was charged with trespassing, battery and resisting arrest. He's being held in a San Mateo County jail in Redwood City.
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The airline released a statement about the events:
The passenger refused to comply with instructions, so the captain exercised his right to make a citizen's arrest after passenger refused to deplane.
The airline also said they do not have a dress code beyond "appropriate, that doesn't offend passengers."
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It never occurs to her that the entirely-optional dreads and baggy pants (not to mention the mama with a different last name) are doing the "stereotyping" for him.
If the airline requires pipoint oxford shirts, silk ties, and black wing tips and you don’t comply, then BUZZ OFF BOZO!
It’s a PRIVATE BUSINESS and they can set whatever standards of dress they want for their clientele.
Some insurance companies require certain articles of clothing be worn in establishments insured by them.
the idea of baggy pants is a stereotype. If you are wearing baggy pants, it isn’t a stereotype, you are actually wearing them. lol.
Why was he wearing pajamas?
If the airline has a dresscode they really need to inform the public before they start enforcing it.
“Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground
With the gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways
Pants hit the ground, call yourself a cool cat
Lookin’ like a fool, walkin’ to the town
With your pants on the ground!”
I’m in ‘higher’ education and there’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing some grown dude’s fancy boxer clad derrier bobbing up and down in front of me. \SARC. Question is , he was weaing PJ’s, was he wearing boxers?
Gee, who'd think others would stereotype him as a total and complete idiot for just showing off his crack?
As much as I detest baggy pants....if the boy wasn’t showing his junk no problem. Again the TSA refuses to stereotype the right light/medium/dark skinned people from other countries that follow a religion that starts with a an “I”.
USAir does business in the San Francisco market. You have to be prepared for everything there ~ I’m surprised they would worry about this ~ like he could have come on their plane in a mankini (e.g. http://stevehollier.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/borat-mankini-very-nice.jpg ) with the city police force available to enforce his rights 24/7.
We had plastic zip ties to loop through belt loops to tighten up students’ baggy pants. One day, I was behind one and started to tell him to pull ‘em up because
I didn’t want to see his.... didn’t finish because they hit the floor right there. I took great pleasure in explaining just where and why the fad came about.
Actually, I lived there for 2 years from 1965-1967 ... but from behind the gates at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. SPs were authorized use of deadly force if Bayview residents trespassed - and they [the residents] KNEW it ...
Albeit a poor place to put it the “Zoo Baby” advertisement is funny.....
All I could do was shake my head in amazement at the idiot! He was taking about twice as long to move along as was needed if he had been walking right!
If and when they start their rioting here I hope they are all wearing those low hanging pants! - Slow movers are easy!
I thought wearing a baseball cap was stupid when it first arrived on the scene. The current fashion is so stupid and ignorant it defies un derstanding. I guess I'm not tolerant and accepting of diversity.
Today I was driving slowly down a residential street in the hood. A young boy maybe 3 or 4 years old...aimed his finger (in the style of a pistol) at me. His arm went up in the air as he pulled “the trigger” and felt the “recoil.”
Don't forget the "pajama pants." Everything this kid did was to draw attention to himself. When he got the attention he deserved, he and his momma start squealing about it. His momma is as much to blame as he is ... maybe more.
"Deshon" did the stereotyping himself.
“He’s a big, tall, light-skinned black boy with dreadlocks. Gets on the plane with baggy pants. Right there you’re stereotyped,” Marman’s mother, Donna Doyle, said.
Correct me if I am wrong, but is this guy not a Shakespearean Theater Major or perhaps pursuing a degree in Aero-Nuclear Physics?
Seems the question of whether the baggy-PJ dude was sporting a bare derriere, or merely a pair of smelly underpants, has been nicely skirted by the news.
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