Sure, airplane passengers have been thrown off flights for joking about bombs, but being thrown off a flight for dropping the F-bomb seems like a new one: Brooklyn resident Robert Sayegh says he was thrown off an Atlantic South Airlines flight to Newark Liberty Airport after he complained, "What's taking so (expletive) long to close the overhead compartments?" Hey, the plane had been at the gate at Detroit's Metro Airport for 45 minutes without moving!
According to the Detroit News, Sayegh, whose Kansas City-Newark flight had a layover in Detroit on Saturday, and his expletives were overheard by another passenger, who informed the flight attendant: "The plane eventually taxied to the runway, but soon returned, where airport police boarded the plane and Sayegh was escorted off." Sayegh claims he only used the F-word twice, "I'm like, 'Are they throwing me off the plane?' This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever been through in my life. It's embarrassing... t wasn't like I stood up like a crazy maniac and was screaming, 'Move the plane!'" And he "said he grew up in Brooklyn where 'we curse as adjectives.'"
Sayegh is considering a lawsuit; Atlantic Southeast Airlines is investigating, but adds that Sayegh got another flight, plus it may remove people is "when the passenger's conduct is disorderly, abusive or violent" or seems drunk. Sayegh, who had been in Kansas City for a wedding, said he was only hung over and he knows not to be disruptive on a flight, "My cousin was killed in 9/11. A lot of friends died in 9/11. I would never come close to doing anything like that."
