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Green Day frontman kicked off flight over saggy pants
Friday, September 02, 2011
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong
(AP Photo)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low.
The Bay Area rock musician was traveling from Oakland to Burbank when the incident occurred. "Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f**k? No joke!" Armstrong tweeted Thursday night.
7Live Associate Producer Cindy Qiu was on the flight and witnessed the incident.
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"Basically, all the passengers were already seated, we were ready to go, they had already told us to start to turn our cellphones off," she said.
Qiu said that Armstrong was approached by a flight attendant and told to pull his pants up. Armstrong initially dismissed the request, asking, "Don't you have better things to do then worry about that?" When the flight attendant repeated the request and threatened to have Armstrong removed from the plane, Armstrong relied "I'm just trying to get to my f**king seat."
Armstrong and the person he was traveling with were then removed from the flight.
Southwest responded to Armstrong's gripe soon after with a tweet of their own. "Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone from our Customer Relations Team will reach out to you to get more details."
This comes on the heels of an incident on June 12 when a University of New Mexico football player was booted from a U.S. Airways flight bound for Albuquerque from San Francisco over his saggy pants. Deshon Marman is now suing the airline over the incident.
ABC7 News contacted Southwest, which declined to comment at this time.
Green Day frontman kicked off flight over saggy pants
Friday, September 02, 2011
Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong
(AP Photo)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low.
The Bay Area rock musician was traveling from Oakland to Burbank when the incident occurred. "Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f**k? No joke!" Armstrong tweeted Thursday night.
7Live Associate Producer Cindy Qiu was on the flight and witnessed the incident.
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"Basically, all the passengers were already seated, we were ready to go, they had already told us to start to turn our cellphones off," she said.
Qiu said that Armstrong was approached by a flight attendant and told to pull his pants up. Armstrong initially dismissed the request, asking, "Don't you have better things to do then worry about that?" When the flight attendant repeated the request and threatened to have Armstrong removed from the plane, Armstrong relied "I'm just trying to get to my f**king seat."
Armstrong and the person he was traveling with were then removed from the flight.
Southwest responded to Armstrong's gripe soon after with a tweet of their own. "Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone from our Customer Relations Team will reach out to you to get more details."
This comes on the heels of an incident on June 12 when a University of New Mexico football player was booted from a U.S. Airways flight bound for Albuquerque from San Francisco over his saggy pants. Deshon Marman is now suing the airline over the incident.
ABC7 News contacted Southwest, which declined to comment at this time.
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Why is this important or so important enough to upset people?
There's a lot of stupid clothing and fashion that people wear.
A guy can wear a fuckin' speedo, which is like underwear in public, but this is some travesty?
A chick can wear "booty shorts" (and have no business doing so), but a covered ass and droopy pants is horrific?
Some of you really need to get a grip and stop worrying about other people.
Someone's droopy pants doesn't affect your life in the slightest.
It's just a dumb fashion trend that'll eventually die out.
Pair of shorts any more than boxers with a zippered fly?
I could walk outside and go to the store in a pair of boxers and chances are few would notice that they were boxers and not shorts.
It's not a big deal if some schmuck wants to wear droopy pants
You all sound like old fuckers when we were kids about long hair and the clothes we wore.
Some of you have become what you as a kid hated
haha, get yer name now. Nice 'stache!
Hypocrites.
Oh, and skinny pants started with Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Hendrix, Jimmy Page, the list goes on...
Get over it and mind your own. I'm sure that is what you were all thinking when your parents gave you shit for wearing those dumb ass bellbottoms.
Pit Row
Difference is, I dont give a shit either way what anybody wears, and neither should anybody else.
Not only was the name incentive for people to be first across the finish line, it was also to remind them if they had some beef with the officiating to leave the girls in sign-up alone, and come talk to me...First.
I wish I could find a pic of him I saw from a Green Day concert about 10 years ago. It was taken from behind and showed him on stage with about 50,000 people in the background. He was rockin out, with nothing on but his guitar. I guess the people on that plane should be happy they were not at that concert or they would have asked him to leave his own show.
https://youtu.be/BkeAzqhlkNk
I'm sorry Dave but noticing and/or commenting on how others dress is a tradition here and just about everywhere else in the world where people are allowed to look however they want. People do those things specifically because they want people to noticed. It's hard to imagine that wearing your pants under your ass is comfortable or somehow allows for more freedom of movement. I can imagine, however, that those pants are fairly quickly pulled up when it becomes necessary to run.
I did have one pair of hiphugger bellbottoms in 8th grade, but generally preferred boot cut jeans and a t-shirt, which became my uniform pretty much through junior high and high school.
The difference is, bell bottoms are not disrespectful or obscene to others. Does our society have no standards or norms anymore?
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