Archive for March, 2008
Classic Mike Tyson Insanity
I haven’t followed boxing in over a decade, so apparently I’ve missed some great Mike Tyson interviews. This one is hilarious.
That Time of the Year
I am sick as a dog.
Why do we say that? Most dogs I’ve known in my lifetime were in moderate to good health.
Yeah Right: Women Say They Were Thrown Off Airplane Because They Were Pretty
Prejudice against pretty?
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=74549That’s the claim from a pair of 18-year-old best friends from Oldsmar who were escorted off a Southwest Airlines plane.
USF student Nisreen Swedberg and friend Sarah Williams claim the flight crew was rude to them from the moment they stepped onto the plane at Tampa International Airport on February 14.
Swedberg said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until the rest of the flight was served.“And I patiently waited and then when they came around with water, they skipped me,” Swedberg said.
At one point, Williams had to use the plane’s bathroom. She saw another passenger in it, and when he hadn’t come out 15 minutes later, she knocked on the door.
When he came out, Williams says the man came over to her seat and yelled a profanity at her. Williams admits she yelled a profanity back at him but was puzzled when she says the flight crew only questioned her.
“I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us,” she said. “[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”
Southwest defends the incident, saying the women caused a disruption on the flight.
When the plane landed in Los Angeles, the women were escorted off by four uniformed police officers and later questioned by the FBI.
Nearly two hours later, the women were released. No charges were filed.
Still, Williams and Swedberg say they were banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights, including their scheduled flight home to Tampa.
Swedberg spent $419.50 on a one-way return ticket and arrived at TIA on Monday. Williams is still in Los Angeles trying to find a cheaper flight home. She hopes to be back to Tampa by Saturday.
Link to video of the story (where you’ll realize that the brunette isn’t as pretty as Myspace makes her): http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/02/25/porter.too.pretty.to.fly.wtsp
Now, granted this is the same airline that kicked a woman off the plane for saying she was dressed like a skank (when she wasn’t)… but I don’t believe these two women for a second. What I do believe is that the women went all Paris Hilton on the people in question, demanding special treatment because they’re "hot" and not having any patience for being treated like everyone else. They’re clueless and didn’t get their way, and had tantrums because of it.
Well guess what, you got your asses thrown off the plane. Suck on that.