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Punches thrown over passenger who won't wear mask on airplane
The Hill ^ | 10/05/2020 | ALEX GANGITANO

Posted on 10/06/2020 2:55:38 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

An argument over face masks turned physical on an Allegiant Airlines flight from Mesa, Ariz., to Provo, Utah, on Saturday.

A passenger on the flight was wearing a face shield and a flight attendant asked him to wear a face mask as well, KSL TV reported. Allegiant’s policy is that face shields must be worn in addition to a face covering, not as an alternative.

When the flight attendant and passenger were arguing about the policy, another passenger heckled the man, KSL reported. As the flight attendant was attempting to escort the passenger who refused to wear a face mask off the plane, a fight broke out with the heckling passenger.

Another passenger, Rylie Lansford, recorded the fight and said one of them threw a punch.

Lansford told KSL that she saw one of the passengers swing at the other and the passenger who refused to wear a mask was choking the other. The fight was broken up after 30 seconds, KSL reported.

KSL also reported the passenger who refused to wear a mask was escorted off the plane in Mesa, Ariz., and the other passenger was able to stay for the flight.

Major U.S. airlines have required face masks on planes for months. In September, a woman and her 2-year-old son were removed from a Southwest Airlines flight because the son didn’t have on a mask.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: allegiantair; arizona; facediaper; faceshields; masks; mesa; provo; utah
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This is insane. People are crazy over these masks!
1 posted on 10/06/2020 2:55:38 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

If someone gets shot over not wearing a mask, is it a Covid death?


2 posted on 10/06/2020 2:57:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The masks are BS, but if the airline requires it, you have to wear one.


3 posted on 10/06/2020 2:58:08 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: Sans-Culotte

This. If you don’t like it, fly another airline. But, of course, if you don’t stand up for your rights to be maskless, they’ll soon require you to wear a tutu or... something.


4 posted on 10/06/2020 3:00:03 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Why did the airline even allow him ON the plane? He should have been stopped at the gate!


5 posted on 10/06/2020 3:01:13 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: EEGator

lol

My neighbor was doing work on his porch without a mask.

So I assaulted him with a shovel and buried him in my back yard.

(this is a joke. My neighbor doesn’t even have a porch)


6 posted on 10/06/2020 3:01:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
Face mask plus face shield?

Not sure I trust Allegiant anyhow.
7 posted on 10/06/2020 3:03:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

A 2 year old MADE to wear a MASK??? How STUPID can you get??


8 posted on 10/06/2020 3:04:13 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

There are times when, even if you’re in the right, you should just be quiet. The passenger who didn’t want a mask IN ADDITION TO the face shield he was wearing, was already in a bad mood. Then the other passenger puts his two cents in at just the wrong moment. Some folks don’t like being laughed at, especially not about another unclear Mask Law.


9 posted on 10/06/2020 3:04:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Sans-Culotte

I remember the video a couple of weeks ago with the flight attendant argueing with a passenger that he needed to wear a mask not just a face covering. He claimed it was a CDC regulation. I doubted it and looked it up. The flight attendant was correct. But you are also correct. If an airline or any business requires it, you have to wear it.

A little off topic: When searching for the place I found the mask info before (I failed to find it) but found this in the CDC Website about flights - for anybody fearful of flying during these Covid times...

“Most viruses and other germs do not spread easily on flights because of how air circulates and is filtered on airplanes. However, social distancing is difficult on crowded flights, and sitting within 6 feet of others, sometimes for hours, may increase your risk of getting COVID-19.”


10 posted on 10/06/2020 3:04:50 PM PDT by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: EEGator

Yes


11 posted on 10/06/2020 3:05:09 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Sans-Culotte; BlackFemaleArmyColonel

It’s a privately owned conveyance. If they want you to wear a polkadot t-shirt, neon green trousers and clown shoes in order to use it, then you either do that or don’t use their services. You can’t say “You can’t make someone bake a pro-gay cake” then protest about someone’s non-discriminatory conditions of service and remain intellectually honest.


12 posted on 10/06/2020 3:05:14 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The “Chad” or should I call him “Rick” grabbing the other guy for not wearing his mask has his own designer mask down.

Which pis more proof this is about control.

These control freak are so freaking stupid.


13 posted on 10/06/2020 3:06:56 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Retrofitted

The way to stand up for your rights is to deprive the company whose policies you disagree with of your money and complain to the corporate HQ while not using their services. Throwing a toddler’s temper tantrum and ruining everyone else’s day when they didn’t have anything else to do with it is not the way to do it.


14 posted on 10/06/2020 3:07:21 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: lee martell

“The passenger who didn’t want a mask IN ADDITION TO the face shield he was wearing”


I agree. Something interesting I did find about the marketing of those face shields. Where I work they are sold. The picture on the front of the box shows a man wearing just the face shield but the written instructions on the back state that a facemask still needs to be worn along with the face shield.


15 posted on 10/06/2020 3:07:37 PM PDT by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Masks? Welcome to the club. Try minding your own business while not wearing pants.


16 posted on 10/06/2020 3:09:40 PM PDT by coaster123 (Hate has a home here.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Yep I almost stun gunned someone who was harassing me on Sunday!


17 posted on 10/06/2020 3:10:16 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
If you are an authentic conservative you know that the proper response to your rights being trampled is to stop, drop and cringe. Otherwise you are an anti-fa, BLM supporter.

(why would you think that was sarcasm? tisk, tisk)

18 posted on 10/06/2020 3:12:20 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: lee martell

Small writing on back of box says you still need to wear a mask

19 posted on 10/06/2020 3:13:06 PM PDT by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: EEGator

Lol! But of course! You KNOW they’re putting it down as such


20 posted on 10/06/2020 3:15:08 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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