Because we expect a little paranoia and overreaction from brand-new parents with brand-new babies. From a parent with two school-age children, you expect a little better than this:
American Airlines Flight 590, with 126 passengers on board, had been scheduled to depart Lindbergh Field at 11 p.m. Tuesday. In an interview yesterday, Robbins said she was sitting in the back of the plane with her children, awaiting the departure from the gate, when one of the Iraqis walked by to use the restroom.
She heard him “clunking around” inside the bathroom. When he came out, he had a suspicious look on his face, she said.
“He looked so mean, the way he was looking at everyone,” Robbins said. “It was very frightening, like something out of a movie.”
Robbins gathered up her sons, ages 9 and 4, and demanded to be let off the plane. The crew complied with her request, but the resulting delay meant the plane couldn’t take off by Lindbergh Field’s 11:30 p.m. curfew. The airline was forced to postpone the departure until 10:15 a.m. the next day.
Oh no! Arabic men having to pee is a national security threat! Just like in a movie, perhaps one titled “Asshole on a Plane”, starring Julia Roberts as a hysterical twit who hopes that throwing a hissy fit about sharing a plane with an Ay-rab will make her a heroine.
Yet another incident to make one regret that “criminal stupidity” is not a felony offense in most states.
mythago
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I don’t know why he would look unhappy. I mean, airplane lavatories are so spacious and comfortable.
Well, if “it was like something right out of a movie”, I understand. Movies are a really reliable guide to real life. Just posting this note before I take over my watch for zombies coming over from the graveyard.
Maybe she was channelling too many Jodie Foster characters.
Boy would I be p.o.’d if I’d been on that plane.