A Day In Rock: September 1st, 2011: Sagging Pants Won’t Fly
On this day thirteen years ago… Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is ejected from an Oakland to Burbank Southwest Airlines flight because his “pants sagged too low.”
Asked by a flight attendant to hike his pants higher, the singer responds by asking if there weren’t “better things to do than worry about that?” That was the wrong question. Amstrong was removed from the flight.
“As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologize for this Customer’s experience,” said Southwest in a statement. “He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction.”
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