Airline passenger drops F-bomb, gets boot
An author of alleged “children’s books” needs to wash his mouth out with soap and find a new airline after dropping the F-bomb aboard an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight.
Unlike the rain in Spain, Sayegh could not remain on the plane.
The Detroit News reports Brooklyn author Robert Sayegh is thinking about suing the Delta Connection carrier.
According to the article, the 37-year-old, was flying from Kansas City to Newark when a flight attendant overheard him ask “What’s taking so [bleeping] long to close the overhead compartments?”
The plane taxied to the runway but returned to have Sayegh forcibly removed.
Sayegh told the Detroit paper he 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.”
Sayegh, who’s also a TV producer, said he is not “a crazy maniac” and that in New York “we curse as adjectives.”
Oh well, at least he didn’t drunkenly flirt his way into the news.
The airline says the incident is under investigation.
Sayegh said would never intentionally disrupt 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.”
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169 comments Add your comment
Baddabing
June 13th, 2011
3:59 pm
Jeremy – You are an f—– idiot!! Freakin’ idiot, there I said it.
BeachBum
June 13th, 2011
4:01 pm
In the words of a very wise friend: “Curse words are a small person’s way of trying to sound big.”
Br00kse
June 13th, 2011
4:06 pm
I agree that he didn’t need to use profanity. Did the Flight Attendant ask him not to use that type language? I think they could handle it another way versus putting him off the plane. I am hoping that all the details have not come out yet.
angrymeatball
June 13th, 2011
4:07 pm
The F word no longer holds the profanity it once did — everything in this country has become weak and watered down. We have allowed so many to lose their manners, values, morals and integrity. We have become a country of foul-mouthed, disrespectful, gun-toting, killing, violent morons. I’m glad this idiot was kicked off the plane.
Baddabing
June 13th, 2011
4:08 pm
Pauline -
You are a f—– idiot as well. And it’s bleeding ears not bleeding hearts sweetcakes. Your the panty wetting bleeding heart.
Greg
June 13th, 2011
4:11 pm
This is insane…he should sue and should win big! …and the flight attendant should be fired. This is a free country–there’s nothing wrong with using profanity.
Zack
June 13th, 2011
4:13 pm
The flight attendant must have been an ol’ southern girl. Them there yankees can’t say nuttin without using them there f words.
chris
June 13th, 2011
4:13 pm
hard to say not being there but if he seemed out of sorts and irate, he shouldn’t be allowed to go. IF he simply cussed – well that shouldn’t require removal. I am betting he was acting out.
Momof2girls
June 13th, 2011
4:15 pm
Amazed that a “children’s author” can’t express himself any better than that! He could have expressed himself without the F-word and still got his point across! Freedom of speech my azz. There are tons of places we go in all the time that limits your language. Hats off to the airline for saying not on our plane!
Zack
June 13th, 2011
4:16 pm
In some states it is against the law to curse in front of children under a certain age. Georgia just happens to be one of them..