As report by 'The San Diego Union-Tribune' on September 5, 2007, a Mesa College student and Hooters waitress, Kyla Ebbert, was asked to step off the plane by a customer service supervisor, identified by the airline only as “Keith.” Keith told Ebbert her clothing was inappropriate and asked her to change. She explained she was flying to Tucson for only a few hours and had brought no luggage.
Keith asked her to go home, change and take a later flight. She refused, citing her appointment that afternoon with a doctor in Tucson. The plane was ready to leave, so Keith relented. He had her pull up her tank top a bit, pull down her skirt a bit, and return to her seat.
Southwest explained its treatment of Ebbert in a letter to her mother, saying it could remove any passenger “whose clothing is lewd, obscene or patently offensive” to ensure the comfort of children and “adults with heightened sensitivities.”
This is the outfit she was wearing.
A Supreme Court justice famously could not define “obscene,” and declaring a thing “lewd” imputes motive. I don't think Kyla Ebbert intended to excite sexual desire on that flight to Tucson .
Come on people! Common sense! What will be next? Maybe it will be someone who is not particularly physically attractive and will be deemed as "patently offensive". How would this scenario be different than Kyla's?
I hope this is not where our great country is headed.
The full story can be seen at http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070905/news_1m5braun.html
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