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Southwest Airlines passenger was removed from a flight at Sacramento International Airport last week after jokingly asking a flight attendant if the water being handed out was vodka.
According to
KTXL, the May 8 flight from
Sacramento, California to
Austin, Texas by way of
Los Angeles had been delayed for several hours because of a maintenance light and the subsequent need to refuel when flight attendants began to pass out water to passengers.
"He said something [like],
'They should be passing out vodka because we've been waiting so long,'" passenger Peter Uzelac told KTXL, referring to the unidentified man's witty remark.
Uzelac said the flight attendant, who he described as young, was not amused.
"She came by and was like, 'I don't think that and I didn't like your joke.' Then my wife tried to butt-in there and say, 'Look it, we've been on this plane for hours.' And she says, 'Well, so have I, so get used to it,'" added Uzelac. "Then all of a sudden, I see her on the telephone up in front."
Comment: What does it say about Saudi society that cases like this, and others that are even more abhorrent, are so frequent?