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Passenger tossed after flipping out over staff’s ‘Merry Christmas’
New York Post ^ | December 25, 2014 | Michael Liss, Daniel Prendergast and Philip Messing

Posted on 12/25/2014 5:18:25 AM PST by Labyrinthos

Bah, humbug!

A passenger was tossed off a plane at La Guardia Airport on Tuesday after flipping out — because airline workers wished him a merry Christmas.

The man was waiting to board American Airlines Flight 1140 to Dallas when a cheerful gate agent began welcoming everyone with the Yuletide greeting while checking boarding passes.

The grumpy passenger, who appeared to be traveling alone, barked at the woman, “You shouldn’t say that because not everyone celebrates Christmas.” ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: airports; bahhumbug; holidaytravel; merrychristmas; waronchristmas
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To: Labyrinthos

Look, today is officially Christmas, according to all levels of government in this country.

So, if someone wishes you a merry Christmas, they are saying they hope you have a happy and pleasant day today.

It is not an inherently religious statement.


21 posted on 12/25/2014 5:51:41 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: duckworth

Christian privilege!


22 posted on 12/25/2014 5:55:26 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Jonty30

Exactly. And I have to admit that I was a little disappointed that the plane wasn’t in the air when I read the headline.


23 posted on 12/25/2014 5:56:04 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Labyrinthos

Merry Christmas! And glad he got tossed....


24 posted on 12/25/2014 5:56:29 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Labyrinthos

And hopefully he will be banned from entry into Texas, the greatest country in the World.

(Dad always said Air Conditioning brought the Yankee Curse.

It makes Yankees think they can come south and stay. )


25 posted on 12/25/2014 5:59:18 AM PST by Dryman (Define Natural Born Citizen)
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To: Labyrinthos

No kidding!!! LGA is an EMBARRASSMENT!!! European airports are SPOTLESS and have Fabulous shops and dining and then there’s LGA!! OMG.


26 posted on 12/25/2014 6:01:45 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Labyrinthos

If I’m not sure, I say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, season greetings.”....My Sikh buddy said “You are merely wishing me love and good fortune which I gladly accept.” when I wished him Merry Christmas.


27 posted on 12/25/2014 6:01:57 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: null and void

I despise the “Happy Holidays” thing. It’s so RINO. I have wished Merry Christmas to people who look muzzie only to receive a very warm Merry Christmas in return. Indeed, many ofd these muzzies in my area are not muzzie at alll, but Coptic, Assyrians, Syriac, or other Christians from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria etc.


28 posted on 12/25/2014 6:02:41 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

I have said Merry Christmas to almost everyone I have seen this season and I have always gotten Merry Christmas back. I can remember only one “happy holidays” as a reply.


29 posted on 12/25/2014 6:06:18 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Dryman

I wish most of them would stay where they come from and live on their socialist utopia , instead of coming here and demanding that the south and Midwest should change to their needs and wants.

A woman I know works at Dennys off I-95 where I live and told me that she had a Yankee couple who lectured her for over 5 minutes not to say Christmas. The woman said she thought about what they said as they were speaking and decided the tip is not worth it and told them that down here we say Merry Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS


30 posted on 12/25/2014 6:08:48 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Labyrinthos

A good response would have been “Not everyone is American either”, “So why are you on flying American Airlines?”.


31 posted on 12/25/2014 6:09:29 AM PST by babygene
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To: Ann Archy

The staff at Newark, the NY airports are full of scumbags who sit around never doing their job and have never heard of the word service.
I avoid all those airports when I go to Europe.


32 posted on 12/25/2014 6:10:02 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Labyrinthos
If that passenger had gotten irritated over the New Years holiday, THEN I would start asking a lot of questions to that passenger on why. Even in China and South Korea--both of whom celebrate the Lunar New Year holidays--they recognize and celebrate New Years Day based on the modern Gregorian calendar.
33 posted on 12/25/2014 6:10:23 AM PST by RayChuang88 (Ferguson: put your hands down and go to work!)
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To: Labyrinthos

I never understood this type of reaction.

True, not everyone celebrates Christmas, but December 25th is still Christmas.


34 posted on 12/25/2014 6:11:04 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: Labyrinthos

If one of you intolerant Christians has the audacity to try to bring a bible or cross into Saudi Arabia, they put it in the shredder right in front of you at the airport.


35 posted on 12/25/2014 6:13:23 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Ann Archy

It’s not LaGuardia, it’s LaGarbage


36 posted on 12/25/2014 6:17:05 AM PST by IFly4Him
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To: Ted Grant

Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate ANYTHING so even “Happy Holidays” would be offensive to them, if they were of a mind to be offended.

Clearly the only way to not offend anybody is to not say anything. But then, that would offend some too...

If people want to be offended, they will be offended no matter what you do. The very fact that I exist is an offense to a large part of the world which believes that “infidels” should die.

The coverage of this Black punk pulling a gun on a cop and getting shot to death is so stupid. It’s obvious that the media is LOOKING for reasons for people to be offended - stoking the fires of resentment. That incident is a no-brainer, but our media doesn’t even “get” a no-brainer because they WANT to be offended. And you’re never gonna be able to appease people like that.

When people like that don’t get laughed off the face of the earth, a society is in deep trouble.


37 posted on 12/25/2014 6:21:33 AM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g G)
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To: Labyrinthos

Who he’s a TEA PARTY fan?


38 posted on 12/25/2014 6:22:30 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Labyrinthos

You read my mind. I would put a fiver on it that it was a Muzz.


39 posted on 12/25/2014 6:22:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Labyrinthos

“He was escorted off the plane as other fliers burst into cheers and applause.”

AMEN!!


40 posted on 12/25/2014 6:23:06 AM PST by upchuck (Too much ME, not enough G.)
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