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Pants on the ground, pants on the ground ... airplane on the ground

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by LongTimeListener, Jun 16, 2011.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/16/BA3C1JUF25.DTL

    Young man thrown off plane and arrested because his pants were down near his knees, leaving the underwear exposed, and he refused to pull them up despite several requests. The mom was on TV news last night saying this would be like if flight attendants forced someone to unwrap and remove his turban.
     
  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Well at least we know what side of the family he gets his stupid from.
     
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Behind just about every asshat kid, there is an excuse-making parent.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Grief can be a powerful thing.

    I think next funeral I go to, I'll wear my pants down around my ass as a tribute to my fallen comrade.
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    People get way too bent out of shape over this.

    The guys wearing their pants low look like idiots. Maybe they are idiots, maybe they aren't. But they usually have long boxer shorts or other shorts on. I've never seen skin exposed.

    If they didn't have the pants on at all and just wore the shorts, no one would bitch.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Keep in mind, though, they are also sitting next to other people.

    Would you want to sit next to someone wearing just their underwear?
     
  7. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    They aren't wearing just their underwear.
     
  8. printdust

    printdust New Member

    It's a religious thing to wear their pants near their knees?
    Oh.
    Then Vancouver's postgame riot must have been a religious celebration.
     
  9. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    My wife is a college teacher. She came home laughing one day because a student came into class with his pants down below his ass and she told him to pull them up, saying "I don't want to see your underwear."

    His sincere response: "But Mrs. Joe, they're my best pair."
     
  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    It gets better. AP reports the suspect is a juco transfer football player at New Mexico. Think I will camp out to be first in line to read the Fulmer Cup wrapup.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Picture of the dude at the link.
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I kept scrolling to the top to see if that was The Onion.

    I always thought US Airways was the most f*cked up airline for the usual reasons -- old planes, bad service, etc. But this puts them waaaaay over the top.
     
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