Man Kicked Off Flight for Swearing

New York Post: A New York man kicked off a flight at Detroit Metro Airport for swearing was considering suing the airline Monday. 

Robert Sayegh, 37, said that he and other passengers on the Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight to Newark, N.J., were made to wait for 45 minutes at a gate before boarding the flight, The Detroit News reported.

Once he was on the flight, he said, a flight attendant overheard him saying to a passenger next to him, "What's taking so f-----g long to close the overheard compartments?"

The plane taxied to the runway, but it soon returned to the terminal, where police boarded and escorted Sayegh off, the newspaper reported.

"I'm like, 'Are they throwing me off the plane?'" Sayegh said, adding that he swore twice. "This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever been through in my life. It's embarrassing."

He added, "It wasn't like I stood up like a crazy maniac and was screaming, 'Move the plane!'" said Sayegh. He added that he grew up in Brooklyn, where "we curse as adjectives."

A spokeswoman for Atlantic Southeast Airlines said the airline was conducting an investigation of the incident.