# Children's author ejected from plane for bad language

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 14, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-author-ejected-from-plane-for-bad-language/585438 "2011-06-14T15:22:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-author-ejected-from-plane-for-bad-language/585438/1 "2011-06-14T15:22:14Z")

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Here’s the kind of publicity an author doe _not_ want.

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> NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – A New York children’s author who used a curse word in exasperation during a plane delay at a U.S. airport was ejected from the aircraft for disruptive behavior.
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> Robert Sayegh, 37, said Atlantic Southeast Airlines overreacted to his salty language when it summoned police aboard to escort him off the Sunday evening flight at Detroit Metro Airport.
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> “The f-word is not a nice word to use,” he acknowledged in a telephone interview, adding he was complaining to himself rather than snapping at anyone in particular.
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> “I really didn’t think I was being that loud.”

Moral: If you’re going to say the f-word, definitely use your Inside Voice.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-author-ejected-from-plane-for-bad-language/585438/2 "2011-06-14T15:35:22Z")

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But… but… [kids love the…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljo5ktLfIK1qz82gvo1_500.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-author-ejected-from-plane-for-bad-language/585438/3 "2011-06-14T15:46:19Z")

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. . .yeah, he must’ve shouted it or something, else the airline is seriously overreacting. My last flight was from Athens to Chicago, with a stop in Madrid. With the airline’s flight attendants striking. I think, during the first leg, I probably said “fuck” and/or “fucking” approximately eleventy billion times (example: “Is this airport run by fucking goats?”).

No one gave a fuck.

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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-author-ejected-from-plane-for-bad-language/585438/4 "2011-06-14T15:48:18Z")

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I was certain it was going to be [this](http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/1617750255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308066467&sr=8-1) author. I was wrong.