Green Day singer kicked off plane for sagging pants

[Akasa]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/...e_armstron.php

So now they can kick us off planes if they don't like how we dress?

[Andara Bledin]

Was he kicked off for sagging, or for cussing at the attendant?

What I find interesting is that the witness starts off that they were all seated and being told to turn off their cellphones, but his comment to the attendant was that he was "trying to get to his fucking seat."

So, he was already holding things up, and he was showing off his underwear to a captive audience who very likely had already lodged a complaint.

I have no sympathy.

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[Greenday]

This isn't the first time. Dallas Cowboys' WR Dez Bryant wasn't allowed on a flight because his pants were sagging below his ass too.

I applaud it. It makes you look like a moron and I don't want to see anyone's ass on my flights. Buy a belt and pull your damn pants up. Don't act like a fool with your pants on the ground.

[AdminAssistant]

his comment to the attendant was that he was "trying to get to his fucking seat."

I guess she didn't have the time to listen to him whine.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Good. And if his ass was out, he should have been arrested for indecent exposure on top of it.

I guaran damn tee you if I got on a plane with my ass out for everyone to see, they'd throw me off for indecent exposure, and rightly so. Why should this douche get special treatment?

Why is it okay for men to walk around with their asses out? And since when is the "oversize toddler with a stale load in his diaper" look attractive? What am I missing?

I don't want to see that guy's ass, and I guess nobody else wanted to see it, either. Although, I imagine that his pants could be up in the proper place and belted snug and he'd STILL be showing his ass, if his behavior is any indication.

[Rapscallion]

So now they can kick us off planes if they don't like how we dress?

As a private institution, yes. However, I'd expect the dress code to be prominent, and I rather expect it was far more than saggy arsed trews that caused an expulsion. I don't think we're getting the whole tale here.

Raspscallion

[Andara Bledin]

I still want to know why everybody else was ready to go and he was still looking for his seat.

It'd also be nice, if, say, after Southwest put him on the very next flight, which he accepted, that he'd, you know, twittered that. To be fair, however, he doesn't actually send very many tweets.

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[Akasa]

How come you don't see stories of women with low waisted pants showing their thongs to everyone kicked off planes? I don't want to see that! I want to see some equality here! I don't think its ok to say its not ok to see a man's underwear, but its ok to see a woman's. For the record I think the look is stupid too, but I don't think its worthy of kicking someone off a plane for.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm pretty sure it was the fact that the staff were abused and sworn at that merited this guy's booting, not his dress sense or lack of.

[Beckpatton]

Seriously?? I don't like the baggy pants/showing your underwear look, on anyone! But priorities please!! He was about to sit on those pants! No arse crack was showing, get over yourself! and yeah he dropped the F bomb, not smart, but surely a 'watch your language sir' would suffice, not delaying a flight to offload a passenger!

Oh and I don't care that it's Billy Joe, I would be just as WTF'd? if it was some other regular Joe...

[Lace Neil Singer]

If it were a regular Joe, it wouldn't be news, amirite?

[Andara Bledin]

How come you don't see stories of women with low waisted pants showing their thongs to everyone kicked off planes?

Actually, the previous story of someone being kicked off a Southwest flight was a woman. In her case, they deemed her skirt to short for propriety.

A woman named Ebbert was turfed in 2007 for inappropriate attire. And another woman came forward to whine that they had her cover herself with a blanked because her dress had a halter-style top and they deemed it too revealing.

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[Bloodsoul]

Just out of curiousity, how old is he now?

[Andara Bledin]

He's about the same age I am; nearly 40. In other words, old enough to dress himself properly for travel and not be a douche to the flight attendant.

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[DrFaroohk]

OT: I always find it helpful to point out to people that their sagging pants is NOT an homage to their hardcore gangsta living, but rather an invitation for some hardcore buttfucking.