Text-Crazy Woman Files Suit Against Southwest

May 19, 2009 at 9:01 AM | by kjb | Comments (2)

We�ve all been there. The flight attendant kindly asks everyone to turn off their electronic devices, but one person is just to cool for school and continues to text and tweet away. One woman did exactly this, but she obviously took it a little too far and wound up going to the big house for a couple hours.

It all started on a Southwest Airlines flight in Nashville last summer. The passenger was returning from Florida and wanted to let her kids know that she was safe and on her way home. Apparently a flight attendant asked her to turn off the phone, but then returned several times to reinforce his message, including two visits as the plane headed toward the runway. Maybe if it was the rapping flight attendant, she would have paid attention.

Unfortunately, she didn�t provide the answer the flight attendant was looking for, which was to finally turn off and stow her phone, and the plane returned to the gate where she was arrested for disorderly conduct. Even though all charges were later dropped, she�s not too pleased about the whole situation and has turned around to sue Southwest for $2 million.

C'mon lady; you don't mess with flight attendants. Also, we feel like the people who should be suing are the rest of the passengers on this flight, who were no doubt majorly delayed and left with the lame excuse of explaining the cell phone ordeal to their friends and family.

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