So I sit down on a recent flight when a commotion erupts and a slew of airport security folks rush into the plane. Some poor black guy is escorted off the plane to reemerge a couple minutes later after retrieving his luggage and finding a shirt to put over his t-shirt which some passenger (or crew member) found offensive. He’s shown above with the offending t-shirt. At least they didn’t shoot him. I found the whole episode to be very entertaining.
Just tell him to turn the shirt inside out. Problem solved. People are too thin skinned these days. GROW UP!
Repulsive Funny | Smart
Not a whole lot of analysis needed here. The proper thing to have done is to tell the kid: – change your disgusting shirt or leave the airport.
Sometimes common sense works best. We don’t need a law for it. The same goes for someone wishing to board a plane in a thong.
I don’t buy all the microanalysis if this is government mandated dress code.
“Not a whole lot of analysis needed here.” /// Make up your mind will ya?
He left his hand off the top of the list.
More proof of God.
The millisecond the photo was snapped the shirt
has a fold that changes ‘your mom’ to ‘our mom’.
Funny the comments that having the guy cover it up is prudish. I am just sorry I wasn’t there. I would have had a field day with this scum. When meeting morons like this, I’ll usually say “your mother would be so proud of you, her hopes and dreams for her son are realized, you are a full blown a**h*le” This works wonders and have used it often.
47 cloewe
Ooooohhh! I shiver in my boots! Maybe his mother GAVE him the shirt, you sanctimonious asshole.
#31 donno “Outside of that, the earlier we teach our kids that words are only words and actions are what actually matter…”
So much for Shakespeare.
Thank God he didn’t wear a stars and stripes shirt. That would have offended too many, and he might not have made it off of the airplane. The Politically Correct Islamic Slaves are winning, America is eating itself. I’ll have fries with that.
Bill, short answer, no.
BillBC, # 8 here.
No. There is no combination of words I would find offensive enough to ban from a public place. More clearly, there is nothing that could be put on a shirt with ink that would cross that line. A private place can ban anything it wants, however.
48 Maricopa
Your mother probably wanted more from you but even failures have some love. The good news is you sound young so you may still have some time, but the curve is short.
Tolerance is the trademark of a truly free society.
tom, what a pile of bullshit. You should get a passport, travel the world for a year or two, and then go back to the US. You might see your own country in a better light after that.
People who do not have a problem with this should read up on the tragedy of the commons. I agree that there may be some grounds for freedom of expression, but the restraint thereof, especially in matters that deal with nothing but prurient interests, is a matter of common civility.
#56-8note==BS!
Is this what you are referring to?==The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an influential article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968.[1] The article describes a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long-term interest for this to happen.”
Unless you are referring to “your own” commons you think that civility is a higher resource than FREEDOM of expression? YOUR “civility” strikes me as blatant OPPRESSION. What other speech do you want to restrict? Gay rights? Abortion? Just about anything you wish to name is an attack on civility, so why don’t you just STFU?
Freedom is not sipping tea from bone china on silk placemats===its a raging bull destroying the icons of settled issues.
Maybe because the male flight attendant did NOT make him hard, that caused the ruckus?
More t-shirts and other eclectic matters shown here:
http://work-killer.com/2010/02/over-50-awesome-t-shirt-designs/
56 see 57, bobbo beat me to it. Um that’s minus the STFU I find that offensive, geez bobbo show some civility.