# The Flying Morons - another plane delayed by a fucking idiot

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 7, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219 "2016-05-07T20:51:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/541 "2016-06-23T06:21:42Z")

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He had a beard. Like, 3 or 4 days growth. She was terrified of his beard.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/542 "2016-06-23T11:14:26Z")

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> [@Lobot](#):
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> Ah, but we have yet to hear the complainant’s side of the story! Maybe he was doing something suspicious, such as acting brown!
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> Now, this is the Daily Mail, but if that story is true, airlines need to start putting in place some sort of penalty/inconvenience for people making such flimsy claims.

Sounds like he was drunk to me. But they need to just come out and say it, if that’s what was going on. They aren’t a hospital, and he has no privacy expectation from an airline.

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-morons-another-plane-delayed-by-a-fucking-idiot/754219/543 "2016-06-23T11:55:14Z")

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> [@WhyNot](#):
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> Sounds like he was drunk to me. But they need to just come out and say it, if that’s what was going on. They aren’t a hospital, and he has no privacy expectation from an airline.

It sounds like they’re trying to imply that it was something like that (whether it’s true or not) without actually saying so. That way they can claim the benefit of the doubt while avoiding a lawsuit for liable, and they can do so while playing the good guys who are just “protecting passenger privacy”.

It sounds like a statement crafted by their legal or PR departments.

These incidents are one step away from “whites only” accomadations, something I thought had been eliminated in my childhood.

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