Posted on 06/24/2011 9:52:44 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
His name is Howard, and he likes to fly while dressed in women's lingerie.
That's about all that is known of the mystery U.S. Airways passenger catapulted to international prominence this week via Internet blogs after he was photographed at Concourse E, Gate 9 of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on June 9 while waiting to board a flight to Phoenix.
Howard's distinguishing characteristics: He smiles with his mouth closed, and he was dressed in nothing more than blue women's lingerie, black stockings, high-heeled shoes and a tasteful, transparent white sweater. He accessorized with a black choker, and a wristwatch.
Greg Meyer, an airport spokesman, said there is no dress code that would prevent Howard or anyone else from flying in lingerie, as long as it does not compromise the safety of the flight or fellow passengers.
"There's not a lot we can say or do,'' Meyer said. "It's a very diverse community, and people come in all sorts of garb.''
The photograph of Howard, taken by a fellow passenger who said others had complained to the crew about him, sparked a mild controversy because just a few days later the same airline had another passenger removed from a flight for refusing the pilot's orders to pull up his sagging pants.
That passenger, 20-year-old Dashon Marman, was booked on suspicion of trespassing, battery and resisting arrest. He is a football player at the University of New Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Judging by old TV shows like Leave it to Beaver, people dressed up inside their homes too.
I wonder their little people xray machine would penetrate chain mail?
The TSA screener probably would get a hernia trying to pat down some in mail. LOL
So, what if a woman showed up to fly in her underwear? This is ludicrous. He should not have been allowed on the plane. He wouldn’t be allowed in a restaurant, would he? or would he....I wouldn’t want to be in THAT restaurant!
Seinfeld had an episode where he was on a train and found himself in conversation with a large, corpulent man, who he pledged to get naked with if the Mets win the penent. Reminds me of this.
fun for .... perverts?
Charlie Chan say: “Man who flies in women’s lingerie must keep fly in lingerie”.
On the other hand, this guy is the one person on the aircraft you can be certain isn’t hiding a weapon or smuggling a bomb on board. Anything can be hidden under the modest all-covering burka. With this outfit, not so much.
Is this the guy that sent that Southwest Airlines pilot over the edge?
You know-the guy who was ranting about gays, grannies and grandes?
No wonder.
There's your problem right there, Ace.
You got it.
Goverment, with all its moralistic "discrimination" laws and regulations, probably makes enforcing any kind of dress code at a public transportation hub so risky that all they can really do is throw up their hands. They'd constantly be fending off race or sexual orientation discrimination charges. Government punishes harshly for discrimination. Maybe the airlines would like to be more moral and make it impossible for a guy like this to inflict himself on their paying public, but the government gets in the way.
Just one small illustration of how less government would lead to a more moral society.
“Greg Meyer, an airport spokesman, said there is no dress code that would prevent Howard or anyone else from flying in lingerie, as long as it does not compromise the safety of the flight or fellow passengers. “
So the kid showing his underwear with the saggy PJ pants would have been allowed on the flight if he had on women’s underwear instead of boxers, I presume.
Back when the world was sane, the insane were locked up in institutions.
Today they fly around in Lingerie and some get elected to Congress.
Good point. Clinton shut down all the places for the unbalanced and now, unless imprisoned by the criminal justice system, they are your neighbors.
A sad, pathetic 65-year-old. Retirement drives some plain nuts.
The way he is dressed in this article would get him arrested and on the sex offenders list, not on an airplane. This is a hoax!
this is called “fun?”
If he wanted to make travel fun, he wouldn’t be flying in the first place.
Flying was “Fun” when I could smoke on an overseas fight.
Flying was “Fun” when they actually had food on board.
Flying was “Fun” when I used to get free drinks from hot young stewardess’s named Mindy just because I was an American serviceman.
Flying was “Fun” when the only pat down you got was from a gal you had drinks with in the Rome airport.
Howard is not fun.
This is just one more reason why we haven’t flown in over 6 years and will never fly again for as long as we live.
Dad?
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