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Billie Joe Armstrong tweets that Southwest kicked him off of a flight
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Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong says he got booted from a flight
over his saggy pants.
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. â€" Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says
his sagging pants cost him a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight.
The singer-guitarist for the San Francisco Bay area band sent a message
to his Twitter followers on Thursday expressing his indignation at being
tossed from an Oakland-to-Burbank flight for wearing his trousers too
low.
"Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low!
What the f---? No joke!" he tweeted.
An ABC7 news producer who was on the same flight told the station that a
flight attendant approached Armstrong as the plane was getting ready to
take off and asked him to hike his pants higher. The producer, Cindy
Qiu, says Armstrong initially responded by asking the attendant if there
weren't "better things to do than worry about that?"
But the attendant persisted and told Armstrong he could be ejected for
his refusal to comply. When Armstrong insisted he was just trying to get
to his seat, he and a traveling companion were taken off the plane.
Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins released a statement saying Armstrong
was allowed onto the next flight to Burbank and had told a customer
relations agent who contacted him he had no further complaints.
"As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to
apologize for this Customer's experience," the statement read. "He
elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and
involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations,
understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his
satisfaction."
A University of New Mexico football player was arrested at San Francisco
International Airport in June when he allegedly refused a U.S. Airways
attendant request for him to pull up his low-riding pants and, later,
the captain's order to leave the plane.
The player, Deshon Marman, was held on suspicion of trespassing, battery
of a police officer and obstruction of a police investigation when he
allegedly resisted the officer who escorted him from the plane. But the
San Mateo County district attorney refused to bring charges.
The incident sparked allegations of racial profiling after a photo
surfaced of a man who flew aboard a US Airways flight wearing skimpy
women's panties and mid-thigh stockings days before Marman's arrest.
That man was white. Marman is African-American.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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