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Woman reportedly arrested for painting fingernails on Southwest Airlines flight
FoxNews ^ | February 7, 2012

Posted on 03/07/2012 6:50:07 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A California woman on a Southwest Airlines flight was reportedly arrested and detained after a verbal confrontation with a flight attendant regarding her nail polish.

Jeanie Daniels told WOFL that she was painting her nails in her seat on a Southwest Airlines flight from California to Texas last month when a flight attendant asked her to stop. Daniels then went to the bathroom to finish and later began arguing with the flight attendant, who waited outside the bathroom.

Daniels was handcuffed and detained for more than 10 hours when the flight landed in Houston.

"She started screaming at me and wouldn't stop,” Daniels told the station. "I said I'm sorry, I apologize and I put it away. About ten minutes into the flight I discovered I only had two nails left to paint so I thought well if I went to the bathroom and did it, it wouldn't offend anyone."

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unless there is a rule against using nail polish or it was causing another passenger to experience a medical problem the flight attendant exceeded her authority.

It seems wherever we go there are more and more people displaying Petty Tyrant Syndrome.


21 posted on 03/07/2012 7:08:40 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: albie

The big deal is that nail polish is acetone based and in a closed space acetone fumes will make most people very ill; that is, it is toxic. If she were sitting next to me she would not have opened that bottle in the first place. The witless twit could put a bag filled with the fumes over her own head for all I care but she doesn’t have the right to expose others to it.


22 posted on 03/07/2012 7:08:40 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: NRA1995

Highly explosive fumes in an airliner and in close proximity to oxygen masks is a very big deal!


23 posted on 03/07/2012 7:08:51 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
About ten minutes into the flight I discovered I only had two nails left to paint.......

How does one "discover" they only had two nails left to paint? Does she have so many it becomes hard to keep track of them all?

24 posted on 03/07/2012 7:09:39 AM PST by liberalh8ter (Barack has a memory like a steel trap; it's a gift ~ Michelle Obama)
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To: ontap

So what’s the big deal about nail polish?
It stinks!!! I don’t think she should have been arrested but she’s an inconsiderate bitch!!!


I’m a guy..I didn’t know nail polish smelled and was offensive. I do however believe that nail polish REMOVER has an offensive odor. This is just another case of an ignorant person being granted too much authority, ie, the flight attendant..


25 posted on 03/07/2012 7:09:47 AM PST by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: Hodar

You’re right-fingernail painting should only be done under safe circumstances, such as when the painter is driving in heavy traffic.


26 posted on 03/07/2012 7:10:18 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Scoutmaster
I'm certain once she was asked to stop, she politely stopped.

"I said I'm sorry, I apologize and I put it away. About ten minutes into the flight I discovered I only had two nails left to paint so I thought well if I went to the bathroom and did it, it wouldn't offend anyone."

I read the above to mean that she was asked to stop, and then went to finish two nails in the bathroom.
27 posted on 03/07/2012 7:10:32 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: nuconvert
"Actually, if she hadn’t cursed at the flight attendent, she probably wouldn’t have been arrested."

Read more carefully. Who was screaming at whom?

28 posted on 03/07/2012 7:10:32 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: NRA1995
So what’s the big deal about nail polish?

In this day and age, with all the concerns over new ways to cause terror, she should have just waited to finish the nail job.

29 posted on 03/07/2012 7:11:18 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Scoutmaster

Just pinging around, looks like she got in trouble with a second flight attendant, that the abusive language charges were dropped, that after the second verbal altercation (in which Daniels says she responded “stop bitching at me,' sat back, and tried to enjoy the rest of her flight), and the flight attendants called ahead for the police. Police surprised Daniels at the gate.

30 posted on 03/07/2012 7:12:39 AM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: NCC-1701

Airliners are not full of 100% oxygen. A spark is not going to explode nail polish in a airline cabin. Come on, has our bubblewrap society forgotten that 30 years ago people smoked on airplanes, hence the ash trays you still see in older airliners. The lady is rude and inconsiderate but the only danger is that someone will smack her upside the head and tell to have some manners.


31 posted on 03/07/2012 7:12:44 AM PST by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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To: RightOnline

Doesn’t matter who started yelling. The passenger cursed at the flight attendent.


32 posted on 03/07/2012 7:12:54 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Woman reportedly arrested for painting fingernails on Southwest Airlines flight

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Similar thread was posted yesterday. And for the life of me - I can’t understand the idiot headline writers.

The woman was NOT arrested over her painting her nails. I repeat.

The woman was NOT arrested over her painting her nails.


33 posted on 03/07/2012 7:14:36 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This mean Liberals and/or Libertarians (Same Thing) NO LIBS.))
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To: AFret.
This is just another case of an ignorant person being granted too much authority, ie, the flight attendant.

All that "ignorant person" needs to do is knock on the pilot's door. The pilot has the authority to divert to East Nowhere in the desert and have you arrested. And pilots will back-up their flight attendants.

Don't believe me? Try it sometime.

34 posted on 03/07/2012 7:16:23 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I read the above to mean that she was asked to stop, and then went to finish two nails in the bathroom.

That's certainly what she told the press after being arrested, after thinking it over, and after possibly speaking with her attorney.

35 posted on 03/07/2012 7:16:42 AM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Responsibility2nd
That stuff ticks me off, also. The headline could just as easily read: Woman reportedly arrested for going to airport.

But the headline writers want you to click on the story.

36 posted on 03/07/2012 7:17:52 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Scoutmaster

I tend to read articles “as is,” and not assume.


37 posted on 03/07/2012 7:18:56 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: AFret.
Wrong...The flight attendant was doing her job and this woman would not have suffered any thing at all if she had just put the fingernail polish away. After that it had nothing to do with the polish and everything to do with an inconsiderate person putting her self above the rest of the people on that plane. Finger nail polish has a very pungent odor and should not be used in a contained space!!! It's simple manners if it weren't prohibited, which it is!!!
38 posted on 03/07/2012 7:19:24 AM PST by ontap
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To: Hodar

Flight attendants have a God-complex. They get their kicks arresting customers and/or throwing them off planes (who then get comped by the airline). I’ve seen it happen to others who may(!) have given the attendant a dirty look.

It happened to me once for complaining when I was thrown out of first class (which I’d paid for). After 15 years, I still remember the bitch’s name...


39 posted on 03/07/2012 7:19:41 AM PST by RossA
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To: Responsibility2nd

IIRC, failure to comply with the directions of a flight attendant is a felony.

No, she wasn’t arrested for “painting her fingernails”, but for failure to comply with the flight attendant’s directions.


40 posted on 03/07/2012 7:19:53 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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