ASSHOLES~~~~~~

Cosmo

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/06/news/fortune500/southwest_shirt/index.htm?cnn=yes A woman's flight home was stopped short because of the message on the T-shirt she was wearing. KRNV's Colin Hackman reports (October 6) NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Southwest Airlines kicked a woman off one of its flights over a political message on her T-shirt, the airline confirmed Thursday, and published reports say the passenger will sue. Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was asked to leave her flight from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., Tuesday for wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film title "Meet the Fockers." A spokesman for Southwest Airlines (up $0.20 to $15.21, Research) told CNN that the airline used the "common sense" approach when they decided to escort Heasley from the plane in Reno, Nevada, during a stopover between Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. The airline felt that the T-shirt was offensive and that other passengers would be outraged by it, the spokeswoman said, adding that the incident is about "decency." "I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going to war," Heasley told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane in midflight over a T-shirt. That's not freedom." According to the airline spokeswoman, Heasley was asked to leave after she refused to cover up her T-shirt, an account that conflicts with Heasley's version in the Gazette-Journal. Heasley told the newspaper that she agreed to cover her shirt with a sweatshirt, but it slipped as she slept. After she was ordered to wear her T-shirt inside-out or leave, she and her husband chose to leave, the paper said. The 32-year-old lumber saleswoman said in the report that no one from Southwest said anything about the shirt while she waited near the gate at Los Angeles International Airport, nor did anyone mention the shirt as she boarded the aircraft. Southwest Airlines (up $0.20 to $15.21, Research) spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told the Gazette-Journal that the airline's contract with the Federal Aviation Administration contains rules that say the airline will deny boarding to any customer whose conduct is offensive, abusive, disorderly or violent or for clothing that is "lewd, obscene, or patently offensive." FAA spokesman Donn Walker told the newspaper that no federal rules exist on the subject. "It's up to the airlines who they want to take and by what rules," he was quoted as saying. "The government just doesn't get into the business of what people wear on an aircraft." Heasley wants Southwest to reimburse her and her husband for the last leg of their trip and pay for her gasoline, a $68 rental car from Avis and a $70 hotel bill, according to reports. -----------------

day

fuck that shit.

Cosmo

For real.

Sun_Fortune

talk about a self-fulfilling Tshirt

nevaspendnocheez

southwest has been off the hook since they started charging big mofos for two seats. they have some wacky policies and an abvious lack of consistency from one airport to another. fuck 'em..

Big_Chan

All Soulstrut folls plaese to a ban on Southwest airlines!

Cosmo

The world has gone mad.

day

The world has gone mad.

i've actually been bugging on that a bit. shit is seeming like end times is around the corner with the way things have been going lately.

Cosmo

funksnotdead

great, instead of looking for bombs and guns they're looking for t-shirts with dirty words. i feel safer already.

Unknown

Does the conservative media down there push these kind of articles? You guys are weird (but I love ya).

Kevin.

tripledouble

take thqa tshit to the streets

its time to satart refacing billlboards
wheatpasting shit on phone booths and buses

especially if you are outside of cities in red state country

its fucking time. theyr eall criminals and the yr e laughing all the ay to the bacnk
cheybey and his halibutrojn allownace cheks FUCk that...this shit is like a big shell game and we kepe getintg distracted by dumb shiot

im going to go handle some shit
pweace soultstrrruut

Swayze

The 32-year-old lumber saleswoman said in the report that no one from Southwest said anything about the shirt while she waited near the gate at Los Angeles International Airport, nor did anyone mention the shirt as she boarded the aircraft.

"Wanna buy some wood?"

teddyrosso

I'm so glad i'm not living in that f**** country. Don't get me wrong, I dig clint eastwood, funk and'all but god damn!!

tripledouble

take thqa tshit to the streets

its time to satart refacing billlboards
wheatpasting shit on phone booths and buses

especially if you are outside of cities in red state country

its fucking time. theyr eall criminals and the yr e laughing all the ay to the bacnk
cheybey and his halibutrojn allownace cheks FUCk that...this shit is like a big shell game and we kepe getintg distracted by dumb shiot

im going to go handle some shit
pweace soultstrrruut

drunk

NewLifeTrio

take thqa tshit to the streets

its time to satart refacing billlboards
wheatpasting shit on phone booths and buses

especially if you are outside of cities in red state country

its fucking time. theyr eall criminals and the yr e laughing all the ay to the bacnk
cheybey and his halibutrojn allownace cheks FUCk that...this shit is like a big shell game and we kepe getintg distracted by dumb shiot

im going to go handle some shit
pweace soultstrrruut

drunk

I thought you were typing with your fists.

gruntgravel

When exactly did the airlines become equivalent to going Greyhound?

z_illa

I lurve me some walmart.

http://www.alternet.org/walmart/26503/

Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.

But that's what happened on September 20.

Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class "to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights," she says. One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb's-down sign with his own hand next to the President's picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster."

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent. But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.

An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service. On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.

"At 1:35, the student came to me and told me that the Secret Service had taken his poster," Jarvis says. "I didn't believe him at first. But they had come into my room when I wasn't there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others."

She says the student was upset. "He was nervous, he was scared, and his parents were out of town on business," says Jarvis. She, too, had to talk to the Secret Service.

"Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room," she says. "Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he'd never been in any trouble."

Then they got down to his poster.

"They asked me, didn't I think that it was suspicious," she recalls. "I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!"

At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident "would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted," she says.

The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.

"I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody," she says. "I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service."

When contacted, an employee in the photo department at the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk said, "You have to call either the home office or the authorities to get any information about that."

Jacquie Young, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart at company headquarters, did not provide comment within a 24-hour period.

Sharon Davenport of the Kitty Hawk Police Department said, "We just handed it over" to the Secret Service. "No investigative report was filed." Jonathan Scherry, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said, "We certainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary. In this case, it was brought to our attention from a private citizen, a photo lab employee."

Jarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: "ridiculous."

CousinLarry

I lurve me some walmart.

http://www.alternet.org/walmart/26503/

Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.

But that's what happened on September 20.

Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class "to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights," she says. One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb's-down sign with his own hand next to the President's picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster."

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent. But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.

An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service. On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.

"At 1:35, the student came to me and told me that the Secret Service had taken his poster," Jarvis says. "I didn't believe him at first. But they had come into my room when I wasn't there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others."

She says the student was upset. "He was nervous, he was scared, and his parents were out of town on business," says Jarvis. She, too, had to talk to the Secret Service.

"Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room," she says. "Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he'd never been in any trouble."

Then they got down to his poster.

"They asked me, didn't I think that it was suspicious," she recalls. "I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!"

At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident "would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted," she says.

The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.

"I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody," she says. "I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service."

When contacted, an employee in the photo department at the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk said, "You have to call either the home office or the authorities to get any information about that."

Jacquie Young, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart at company headquarters, did not provide comment within a 24-hour period.

Sharon Davenport of the Kitty Hawk Police Department said, "We just handed it over" to the Secret Service. "No investigative report was filed." Jonathan Scherry, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said, "We certainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary. In this case, it was brought to our attention from a private citizen, a photo lab employee."

Jarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: "ridiculous."

Fuck Walmart. That teacher sounds cool though.

Swayze

take thqa tshit to the streets

its time to satart refacing billlboards
wheatpasting shit on phone booths and buses

especially if you are outside of cities in red state country

its fucking time. theyr eall criminals and the yr e laughing all the ay to the bacnk
cheybey and his halibutrojn allownace cheks FUCk that...this shit is like a big shell game and we kepe getintg distracted by dumb shiot

im going to go handle some shit
pweace soultstrrruut

drunk

I thought you were typing with your fists.

I thought you were typing that way in order to circumvent any kind of government spy software that detected certain words or phrazes (for real)

man shit is way out of hand when I am actually this paranoid.