[karajorma]

A New York children's author who used a curse word in exasperation during a plane delay at a U.S. airport was ejected from the aircraft for disruptive behavior.

Robert Sayegh, 37, said Atlantic Southeast Airlines overreacted to his salty language when it summoned police aboard to escort him off the Sunday evening flight at Detroit Metro Airport.

"The f-word is not a nice word to use," he acknowledged in a telephone interview, adding he was complaining to himself rather than snapping at anyone in particular.

"I really didn't think I was being that loud."

Sayegh, who is also a television producer, was catching a connecting flight home after attending a relative's wedding in Kansas City, Missouri.

He was, by his own account, feeling tired. The plane was not taking off. The explanation that there was a problem with the overhead compartments did little to soothe his irritation, he said. And so, to no one in particular, he wondered aloud, using coarse language, what was taking so long.

"I said the f-word," Sayegh said.

Perhaps, he recalled, he said it twice. A flight attendant seated near Sayegh took offense. Soon he was being led off the plane by police.

"I didn't direct it at him," Sayegh said, referring to the flight attendant. "The only reason he heard me was he was sitting in his seat behind me."

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Seriously? Saying the F-word gets you escorted off a plane now? I mean I know you could already be thrown off for showing your legs and a hint of cleavage but now a couple of quiet f-bombs get you thrown off too?

[Mustang19]

Whats been up with this board lately, some kind of reverse moral panic?

And from your other link it looks like hooters is really lowering its hiring standards.