Brooklyn Man Thrown Off Flight for Swearing

Monday, 13 June 2011 | by Pat's Picks

A Brooklyn man is considering a lawsuit after he was kicked off a New Jersey bound plane…for swearing. After a 45-minute delay in Detroit, the man allegedly turned to his seatmate and said, “what the (beep) is taking so long?” A flight attendant overheard him and had the plane return to the gate where police officers boarded the plane and escorted him off says the Detroit Free-Press. He told the New York Post, he was shocked considering that in Brooklyn, “we curse as adjectives.” The man, who writes children’s books, said he was “was hungover but not drunk” when he made his proclamation; he called the whole situation “ridiculous and embarrassing.”

Here’s Robert Sayegh’s personal website. And no, he’s not the guy behind “Go the (Bleep) to Sleep.”