Posted on 07/29/2016 7:10:10 PM PDT by smartyaz
PHOENIX - A man waiting to board a Southwest plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor Thursday night was booted from the flight for his vulgar t-shirt. But he thinks his punishment was politically motivated.
The T-shirt Kevin (he declined to share his last name) was wearing said “F*** Trump.”
“I mean there was another guy who just had a middle finger on his shirt but they didn't say nothing to him,” Kevin told ABC15 on Friday.
Kevin thinks the problem wasn't the bad word, but rather the target of that aggressive language.
“What's really the problem? Are you a Trump fan or something? I mean, is Southwest for Trump?” Kevin inquired rhetorically.
He said he was wearing his F-Trump shirt and waiting for the Southwest flight when a gate agent came to him and asked that he change - or at least turn the shirt inside out.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc15.com ...
Where did you get that? I want one. It does not appear on the Trump website.
If I had one I would also remove it before getting onto I-95 in the liberal cesspool where I live. I would truly be afraid of being run into the center wall.
Why is he so obsessed with having gay sex with Trump that he would put his desires on a shirt and wear it in public?
They should have offered to just let him cover it with duct tape or something. That way it would have just said TRUMP! Lol
Yeah...everyone wants to see the F word! What an idiot.
“Southwest Airlines does not have a Customer dress code. We only address situations where Customers or Employees believe an item of clothing might be overtly offensive to fellow members of the traveling public, including the many families with children who fly with us. In this situation, the Customer was wearing a shirt with a word that is widely considered offensive emblazoned upon the front. As a result, we requested the Customer cover or change his shirt. Once the conversation escalated, the Customer was denied boarding on his original flight, and rebooked on a later flight. The Customer elected to cancel his reservation. As always, we take the comfort and safety of the over 100 million Customers who fly us each year very seriously.”I suspect that is what got Kevin booted from the flight. He probably caused a scene.
I think you're exactly right. Southwest Airlines is also one of the more family friendly airlines, meaning lots of families with children fly with them. If I were a parent of a younger child sitting on that plane and this bozo got on I'd have gotten up and asked him to use the lavatory and change his shirt first.
Barring that, it is well known that the Captain of every plan has the authority to remove passengers from the flight if he deems them to be a danger, or disruptive to flight operations either before or during the flight. (Would've been nice to chuck this loser from the plane in flight, btw.)
Civility along with Morality and Ethics are becoming hard to find.
They'll run you off the road.
Such vulgarity has become all to common place these days and people have lost all sense of common decency......
I am just old enough, 61, to remember when my parents would take me and my siblings on planes and we dressed up. Did not even think of not wearing a coat and tie and my mother dressed to the nines. Now a days anything goes.
I have a magnetic Trump/Pence sticker.
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You have a metal bumper?
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