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Southwest Airlines doesn't like Master Baiter

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Austin70, Oct 5, 2007.

  1. Austin70

    Austin70 Contributing Member

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    That is a funny t-shirt. link.


    Southwest Airlines created a public uproar, then issued a public apology last month after crew members told a young San Diego woman that her miniskirt and tank top weren't appropriate attire. The message to employees from Southwest president Colleen Barrett: We're not the fashion police.

    Oops, they did it again.

    On Sunday, Joe Winiecki of Largo was sitting in the last row of a Southwest jet in Columbus, Ohio, ready to take off for Tampa when an airline supervisor instructed him to change his sexually suggestive T-shirt, turn it inside-out or get off the plane.

    Winiecki argued that the airline was violating his right to free speech and objected to changing in front of other passengers. When the supervisor insisted, backed by a burly pilot and security officer, he changed into a different shirt rather than risk missing work the next day.

    "It's really disappointing in this country when I can't travel from Ohio to Florida with the clothes on my back," Winiecki said Thursday. "Who's to say what's offensive and what's not?"

    Southwest prohibits "lewd, obscene or patently offensive" clothing. But three hours after inquiries Thursday by the St. Petersburg Times, a spokesman said the airline made a mistake and would apologize to Winiecki.

    "It was inappropriate for our employee to approach Joe," said spokesman Chris Mainz. "We don't have a dress code. Only in extreme situations would we want to address this to our customers."

    He cited three examples: indecent exposure, extreme vulgarity and clothes with threatening language.

    Winiecki's shirt, purchased on a cruise in St. Thomas Virgin Islands, uses sexual double entendre to promote a fictional fishing tackle shop. The largest lettering reads "Master Baiter." Winiecki said Southwest crew members on a flight from New Orleans last month told him "that's a great shirt and laughed about it."
     
  2. Uprising

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    Yep, they have gone too far. They did it to 2 chick since the first one IIRC.
     
  3. Master Baiter

    Master Baiter Contributing Member

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    The man is always tryin' to keep a brotha down.
     
  4. DonnyMost

    DonnyMost not wrong
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    you deserve to get hassled for wearing a r****ded shirt like that

    but they need to leave the scantily clad chicks alone
     
  5. macalu

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    people need a buy themselves a sense of humor sometimes.
     
  6. TeamUSA

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    consistency...
     
  7. MadMax

    MadMax Contributing Member

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    come on. you wear a shirt like that expecting a reaction. then when you get it, you complain you're being oppressed? please.
     
  8. MR. MEOWGI

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    Police state!!!!!!!
     
  10. MadMax

    MadMax Contributing Member

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    i know right?? SWA is all nazi and whatever. They're probably building concentration camps at Love Field. I can say or do anything and you can't stop me, because of the First Amendment!!! Free speech, b****es!!! yeah!!!! ROCK ON!!!!
     
  11. TeamUSA

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    or you can always file a complaint here...

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  12. MR. MEOWGI

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    You are a dork.
     
  13. MadMax

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    Keep rockin' your Big Johnson shirts Meowgi. You're the cool one. You've got the touch. You've got the power!!
     
  14. Blake

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    LOL "big johnson shirts"

    forgot about those things
     
  15. MR. MEOWGI

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    I prefer my praying Calvin shirt.

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  16. MadMax

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    i don't think you need to be sportin' the praying Calvin shirts in order to realize how dorky these sorts of shirts are.
     
  17. Master Baiter

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    Says the Tobey Maguire looking lawyer :)

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  18. MadMax

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    that made me laugh! awesome! :)

    it's just a different "brand" of dorkiness. this is dorkiness that thinks it's cool.
     
  19. rimbaud

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    That guy deserves to be punished. He is in his forties (judging by the picture) and is wearing a shirt for 16 year old boys.
     
  20. Hippieloser

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    He "deserves" to be mocked. Not tossed off a plane.
     

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