Tweet Upsets Twat

[Mike Mercury]

Family Asked To Leave Southwest Flight After Tweet
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities man is upset about the way his family was treated on a Southwest Airlines flight because of a tweet.
Duff Watson says he was asked to de-board a flight from Denver to Minneapolis with his two kids on Sunday after an agent didn’t like a tweet he wrote about her service.
Watson and the agent had a disagreement before boarding initially.
“I was left, you know, very upset, very embarrassed, very humiliated,” Watson said.
He’s an “A-List” passenger, which means he gets priority boarding. But a gate agent wouldn’t let his 6-year-old and 9-year-old board with him — so they’d all have to wait to board later.
“In leaving I said, you know, ‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about it,’” he said.
And that’s just what Watson did.
“Something to the effect of, ‘Wow, rudest agent in Denver. Kimberly S, gate C39, not happy @SWA,’” he said.

Soon after getting to their seats, the family of three was asked to leave the plane.
“[She said] her safety feels threatened at this point because of what I tweeted,” Watson said.
Watson’s daughter, Lucy, said she feared for her father.
“She said ‘I’m going to call the cops,’” Lucy said. “I like thought something bad was going to happen, like my dad being in jail.”
Watson says at that point, his children started to cry. He doesn’t understand why his family was targeted.
“There was no use of profanity, there were no threats made. There was nothing other than, you know, a terse exchange between a customer service agent and a customer,” he said.
Watson says he was forced to delete the tweet.
“She said, ‘You can’t board the plane unless you delete that tweet,’” Watson said.
Southwest Airlines sent a statement which confirmed that a customer was removed for a short time and continued on to Minneapolis. They also said the incident is under review.

[DropTheTop]

Wow . . . hope the bitch gets some time off.

[ApexOversteer]

So what did he tweet after he landed?

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

So what did he tweet after he landed?

Could be interesting.

I sure as shit know I would have a LOT more to say after I got off that plane!

[snide]

Why does this asshat think that SW's policies don't apply to him?

Southwest does make an announcement that everyone must have their own boarding pass, and that if folks are traveling together, someone in the A-group can go back to the B-group or C-group, but B- or C-groups can't cut in to the A-group. That's their policy.

Asshat could have boarded between A-group and B-group, with his kids, as that is the policy.

What an asshat.

[snide]

And another thing. WTF is a tweet? And why to people give a shit what people tweet? Idiots.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by snide

Why does this asshat think that SW's policies don't apply to him?

Southwest does make an announcement that everyone must have their own boarding pass, and that if folks are traveling together, someone in the A-group can go back to the B-group or C-group, but B- or C-groups can't cut in to the A-group. That's their policy.

Asshat could have boarded between A-group and B-group, with his kids, as that is the policy.

What an asshat.

[...Whitepower...]

That's what he gets for talking shit.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about it'

Is this the society we've become? I'll be sure to tweet about it?

'You just wait Mr. I'm gonna tweet about this!'

'Slut dumped me. I'll show her, I'll tweet about it!'

'He stuck his finger up my ass when I wasn't looking! I'll get even with a tweet!'



Here's the faggot right here

[DaveK88]

Wait a minute, this guy paid the $12.00 to be on the "A" list but didn't pay it for his children.

Funny how the attendant had time to check the tweeter world while she was working.

[snide]

Originally Posted by DaveK88

Wait a minute, this guy paid the $12.00 to be on the "A" list but didn't pay it for his children.

I'm A-List Preferred. I didn't pay $12 to be on the A-List. You have to earn it by flying a lot.

Asshat could have paid an extra $12 each to get a lower boarding position for his kids, but he didn't. And if he did pay extra, there's no guarantee they would have been right next to him in the A-group.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

You feel it's OK for him to be kicked off a flight the non-vulgar, non-threatening tweet in the OP?

I'll let ...Whitepower... respond to this but I'll add something; This is 2014. We had airliners crash into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. As a result of this, there is a zero tolerance policy regarding perceived threats to airline travel. This entire episode is a fuking joke, but considering the 9/11 tragedy, I somewhat understand it. I don't condone it or support it, but I do understand it.

[Hoog]

They're both self-absorbed idiots, trying to out idiot each other.

[Kerrmudgeon]

....he said twat.

In the UK that would be verboten.

[ApexOversteer]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

....he said twat.

In the UK that would be verboten.

Really? They say it on TV all the time...

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

Really? They say it on TV all the time...

....just surprised to see it in the thread title......like using the C word.

[uncle dan]

Originally Posted by Hoog

They're both self-absorbed idiots, trying to out idiot each other.

Both were acting less mature than the two kids...

[GentleBen]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

....he said twat.

In the UK that would be verboten.

That was Mike Mercury, the OP, not the individual who was bounced with his kids from the flight after his tweet.

By the way, exactly what is wrong with "twat" - a well known term in military radar systems maintenance standing for Travelling Wave Amplifier Tube?

A TWAT (or in these PC days aka TWT) is also the tube that warms your meals in a microwave oven.

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by GentleBen

That was Mike Mercury, the OP, not the individual who was bounced with his kids from the flight after his tweet.

By the way, exactly what is wrong with "twat" - a well known term in military radar systems maintenance standing for Travelling Wave Amplifier Tube?

A TWAT (or in these PC days aka TWT) is also the tube that warms your meals in a microwave oven.

Now, who says you don't learn things on the VBF!?

[...Whitepower...]

Originally Posted by snide

I'm A-List Preferred. I didn't pay $12 to be on the A-List. You have to earn it by flying a lot.

Asshat could have paid an extra $12 each to get a lower boarding position for his kids, but he didn't. And if he did pay extra, there's no guarantee they would have been right next to him in the A-group.

I have gold status with Delta. Not from flying alot, maybe a dozen round trips a year, but from getting a gold AMEX card with them. A byproduct of the card is that i board as Zone 1. So its Elderly, Kids, their prefered customers, first class, and then zone 1, 2, 3, 4. I also check a bag for free, free, etc..

I'm gold with Hilton too from getting their credit card as well.