Southwest Airlines Boots Passenger for ‘Fockers’ Shirt
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.06.05 | 11:32 AM ET
We all know the days when flying was considered glamorous and jet travelers dressed to the nines are long gone. But just how long gone? On Tuesday, passenger Lorrie Heasley was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight in Reno after passengers complained about her T-shirt. It featured pictures of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice and carried a slightly different version of the film title, “Meet the Fockers.”
A critic of the war in Iraq, Heasley said she wore the shirt as a joke to amuse her Democrat parents, who were to meet her at the Portland airport, according to a report in USA Today. Heasley now says she wants the airline to reimburse her for her ticket and additional expenses. She said nobody at Southwest complained when she waited for, and then boarded, a flight hours earlier at LAX. That’s not surprising to anyone from Los Angeles. Let this be a lesson for others intent on wearing possibly obscene lefty T-shirts on West Coast flights: You can probably fly directly from LAX to San Francisco, Portland or Seattle undisturbed (and even applauded), but don’t stop in Nevada.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
