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
Red Necker
June 13th, 2011
2:09 pm
This Turd Hole should have been thrown in jail!
steverino
June 13th, 2011
2:11 pm
A foul mouth is a sure sign of a weak mind.
DUMB MOVE IF YOU ASK ME
June 13th, 2011
2:13 pm
THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN HIM A VERBAL WARNING IF IT BOTHERED THE FLIGHT ATTENDENT THAT MUCH. THAT IS ABOUT THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE HEARD IN MY ALMOST 53 YEARS OF LIFE. I GUESS THE FLIGHT ATTENDENT DOESN’T WATCH PG-13 OR R-RATED MOVIES OR GOES TO BARS. SO DUMB & STUPID. PEOPLE GET OVER YOURSELVES & STOP BEING SO JUMPY. I COULD SEE IF HE WAS A THREAT OR DANGER TO THE PASSENGERS AND/OR STAFF. THE IDIOT LIST GROWS EVERYDAY. GET A LIFE PEOPLE, GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN!! SMH!! LOL!!
JesusFreak
June 13th, 2011
2:14 pm
Good for them! Profanity just denotes a limited vocabulary and limited intellect. Use it all you want to when nobody else is around to hear you, I would have hated to have been on the plane with that dim bulb and having my kids listen to such garbage. Not sure what kind of “children’s” author he is, but we don’t want to read his kind of drivel – go back to school and learn how to talk. A disgrace for all fellow NY’ers.
Frequent Flyer
June 13th, 2011
2:15 pm
Great job! Now that you’ve addressed the “foul language” problem, I for one will be eternally grateful if the same measures can be used to get rid of the idiot parents and their screaming brood.
Duh
June 13th, 2011
2:19 pm
DUMB MOVE IF YOU ASK ME – NOBODY ASKED YOU!!!
flying aholes
June 13th, 2011
2:20 pm
Cursing at the airport and on planes should be MANDATORY.
Delta Sucks
June 13th, 2011
2:27 pm
Delta SUCKS. There I said it… gonna kick me off the plane?
DebDoes
June 13th, 2011
2:27 pm
It’s okay to curse the airlines ‘when you aren’t on the plane’ or in the middle of a TSA search, but not a good idea when they are ‘driving’! Time for a nice big bar of soap and wash that mouth out….besides, come on, children’s book author? Give me a break…..I wonder who edits his work???
Givemeabreak
June 13th, 2011
2:31 pm
Give me an f*&#in’ break. There’s no law against dropping an f-bomb. Should he have kept it to himself? Maybe. Should he have been forcibly removed from an airplane? I think not. People need to lighten up.