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American Airlines removes family from flight over body odor complaints
NBC News ^ | Januar 24, 2019 | David K. Li

Posted on 01/24/2019 5:48:39 PM PST by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

It could be their diet causing the problem. I worked with a woman who was very well groomed, and, AFAIK, showered regularly. However, her family’s diet apparently included enough garlic to choke a Gilroy farmer.

In spite of her bathing and grooming habits, she almost always reeked of garlic, practically oozing from her pores. We worked in the same group, but not she and I sat far enough away from each other that the odor seldom bothered me. Still...!


21 posted on 01/24/2019 8:42:57 PM PST by ssaftler (Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
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To: EdnaMode

“Yossi Adler — a 36-year-old business consultant from Southfield, Michigan — accused the airline of singling out his family because they’re Jewish.”

That does help explain why Judaism is a dying religion.


22 posted on 01/24/2019 10:31:01 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: EdnaMode

Michael Moore ejected again? Told that boy to take a shower, at least once a month. Sheesh! He won’t listen to anyone.


23 posted on 01/25/2019 12:00:20 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Blurb2350

On a flight from Ban Me Thuot in Central S. VN to Saigon, we had a problem. One of our interpreters’ bought a dog for his family, and it barfed in the back of the plane.

We were sitting in a small cargo plane with no place to go. No open windows.

The smell was overwhelming.

I hope that dog became a “chow hound” in a Saigon dinner.


24 posted on 01/25/2019 12:06:09 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: South Hawthorne
Read the article. It is true that if you eat a lot of certain foods, especially cumin, saffron, turmeric, and garlic especially, the odors cling to one, and may be unpleasant to others. It is NOT being unclean. And sometimes there nay be a genetic tendency for one's perspiration to be more acrid.

However, for this guy to claim it is a rejection of his religion is simply ridiculous.

25 posted on 01/25/2019 1:13:26 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: ssaftler

On the plus side, garlic repels parasites, so they’ll not be carrying ticks or fleas.


26 posted on 01/25/2019 5:04:53 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: onedoug

No sardines?


27 posted on 01/25/2019 5:06:38 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: EdnaMode

because they’re Jewish
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Really? I bet not.


28 posted on 01/25/2019 5:40:49 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: BobL
That does help explain why Judaism is a dying religion.

Judaism is still alive after millennia of persecution, attempted extermination, and people saying Judaism is a dying religion. One reason is that Jews have families and children, passing the faith on to their children.
29 posted on 01/25/2019 5:48:31 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: imardmd1
However, for this guy to claim it is a rejection of his religion is simply ridiculous.

Prove it is "simply ridiculous."

    One would have to examine the evidence and witnesses to determine the facts.
  1. Miami to Detroit flight
  2. " several passengers, along with our crew members," could have bias if they were Michigan based and hostile to Jews
  3. On the other hand, perhaps there was some compelling reason to deny an obviously Jewish family boarding. The airline could have liability for discrimination if the "several passengers, along with our crew members" have an antisemitic bias, since action was obviously taken to deny the family boarding for the purported cause of "odor."

30 posted on 01/25/2019 5:55:43 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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Right, a few muzzies identified Jews and did what muzzies do!

So the crew members were muzzies too? Who would of thought......

31 posted on 01/25/2019 5:59:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe they had onions on their burgers before they boarded...


32 posted on 01/25/2019 6:00:35 AM PST by shotgun
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To: shotgun

My guess is that it was a washing issue. Some religions/sects have strict rules regarding it.


33 posted on 01/25/2019 6:07:09 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: EdnaMode
Yossi Adler .... accused the airline of singling out his family because they're Jewish.

Jeez, he jumped right to that, didn’t he?

When all else fails, say they’re racist...

34 posted on 01/25/2019 6:13:40 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: AppyPappy

Most likely. I hope it wasn’t because of the child neede his diaper changed...


35 posted on 01/25/2019 6:27:45 AM PST by shotgun
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To: af_vet_1981
Prove it is "simply ridiculous."

Iy would be ridiculous for the whole crew of a deep-pockets company like American Airlines, risking their jobs, to deboard a family based on their religion, if it was proveable.

The family was given an overnight stay in a good hotel, with meals paid for, and flown home the next morning. Perhaps AA had a morning flight that had enough empty seats to sequester the family a few seats away from the rest, if necessary.

Think it through. Im the little country towns I lived, there comes a season comes when wild leeks (Southerners call them "ramps") find their way to the table. The odor they impart to the eater is so bad that a child whose family had them was barred from school the next day, and maybe more than one. The problem is that when you do eat them, you are not offensive to yourself.

How this was dealt with in these little towns was to have a ham-and-leeks communal banquet every year. thus allowing ebery one to enjoy them in season, with no one being put off. I actually have a trophy ball cap given out by a northern Pennsylvania hill town memorializing theirs.

But if one of them tried to board a flight from the county airport the next day, I'm sure that person would be told "No."

This little family might have gotten into something like that--a meal with garlic-laden gefilte fish or borscht or something like that, not realizing the scent they bore from it.

36 posted on 01/25/2019 6:56:18 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: South Hawthorne
I'm no coward I just thought you might appreciate my thoughts delivered to you in private. You are certainly no conservative, at least not the kind I respect. You remind me of those who saw a snippet of the Covington High School's right to life participants, and rushed to condemn them.

You have no clue as to whether those people did in fact smell, yet you blast them as if you did.

I'm so sick of people like you that have no facts yet are overflowing with righteous indignation.

37 posted on 01/25/2019 7:52:12 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: imardmd1

Remember there are a lot of Muslims in the Detroit area, and I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to pull something like this on a Jewish person to have them removed from the flight, if for no other reason than to embarrass them.. Not saying that was the case, but ‘;m certainly not prepared to say that it wasn’t either. We don’t know.


38 posted on 01/25/2019 7:56:50 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Sounds like a muzzie filed a complaint.



39 posted on 01/25/2019 9:06:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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You have no clue as to whether those people did in fact smell, yet you blast them as if you did.

Actually, I do: The Adler family were asked to deplane last night after several passengers, along with our crew members, complained about their body odor,"

If their version, that they were just sitting quietly being Jewish and they were thrown off for no reason other than them being Jews was true, you don't think the SJWs on the plane would be making a huge issue out of this?

40 posted on 01/25/2019 11:52:12 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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