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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margaret
June 14th, 2011
3:36 pm
he was probably taken off because he had alcohol on his breath and being disruptive.. they don’t know when his last drink was….. and once you get in the air it’s a little late to try to controll a situation!! Read Below.. I found it in another paper… all Dr. Robert Sayegh’s words!!!
The flight, which was taxiing on the runway, turned around at Detroit Metro Airport and police boarded the flight to escort Sayegh off. “I couldn’t even believe when they pulled up and the cops got on,” Sayegh told the paper.
Sayegh admits he was hungover on the flight, and denies that the F-word was directed at anyone. “I don’t want to come off like I curse all the time. We use curse words just like adjectives. But the thing is, I never said it out loud towards him. He just happened to be right behind me,” Sayegh says of the flight attendant.
Neon Nights
June 14th, 2011
3:54 pm
Some people really need to get over themselves. I can understand not liking the use of fowl language in public. I don’t either, but saying that it was right to remove the guy from the plane is ludicrous at best. There are a lot of things I dislike, including pathetic southern twangs, which I find to sound even more uneducated than the occasional F bomb, but I wouldn’t want someone removed from a public place because of it. The only reason people should be removed from a plane is that they are a threat to the well being of other passengers. The guy has every right to sue and I hope he does. Delta needs a lesson.
Krystle Meyer
June 14th, 2011
4:06 pm
@ Big deal – lol, Duke actually. And I get paid six figures to defend big companies from idiots that don’t understand that airline attendants are under no obligation to peek around those big carts to tuck in your wittle arms and legs.
Krystle Meyer
June 14th, 2011
4:08 pm
@ Neon Nights: He has every right to sue, but he would be wasting his time. Delta can throw someone off if they feel that person is not in conformity with their agreement when the ticket was booked. This includes conduct, which encompasses language. No freedom of speech violation – that only applies to government.
Delta Hater
June 15th, 2011
5:35 pm
Some ppl really are having to long to put their anyways to big bags in the overhead bin or try to stuff it under the seat infront of them. Gosh pay those 25$ and it goes in the planes belly! Not that hard isn’t it? Thumbs up if you hate fat guys beside you in the plane!!! They need to pay me back half of my ticket and charge this fat guy b/c i was just using half the seat!!! I want Mr. Makeys “it”!!!
J littleton
June 15th, 2011
6:35 pm
This is
J littleton
June 15th, 2011
6:41 pm
This is and example of the of a large group of people in society that have changed their language to express themselves in a vulgar way. I have had men and women like him who have limited vocabulary that I just tell them I have a picture of my children in my pocket and asked them to please not talk like that around me. Most of the time they just stop talking in such terms. I have been on planes when everyone was in such a hurry to load their bags in the overhead that they seem to not remember that the plane will take off only when the Captain tells them to fasten their seat belts. Why get so up set that you make a fool of yourself and get kick off the plane.
mark
June 15th, 2011
9:51 pm
What ever happened to free speach, not that he was right for using the words he did, but give me a break, how many places can you go today and not hear a few f-bombs being dropped?
David Staples
June 16th, 2011
10:46 am
Words only have as much power as you give to them. Use whatever language you want… it doesn’t bother me.