Woman detained for 10 hours for painting nails on flight

[slag]

Nail polish ingredients often include toluene. Solvents such as toluene and xylene are petroleum-based products that have been linked to cancer. Formaldehyde (formalin) may cause allergic reactions and is unsafe for use by asthmatic people. It is a carcinogen.

Air is a carcinogen. Everyone who breathes it eventually dies.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

What she did on the flight is indefensible. However, being detained 10 hours by the police? Indefensible as well..

She most likely flipped out and made this situation 100x worse than it would've been if she had handled it appropriately.

A key sign is the fact that she thought it'd be ok to paint her nails on a plane in the first place.

 

[Veliko]

I believe that it has to do with the fact that once you board an airliner you are no longer "free" to do whatever you feel like doing. The FAA/airlines make the rules ... not the passengers. The fact that a police officer thought she was going to hit the flight attendant may be absurd but not that when she was asked to STOP doing her nails she went to the bathroom to continue. The airlines have a lot of liabilities to deal with when flying passengers ...

It is not something that needs a big deal being made out of. When she had emerged from the toilet her fingernails were done so shouting at her for it simply wasn't necessary.

 

[skyking]

Wasn't hard to find, if you even tried at all. 🙄



I was under the impression that you're a guy, not a chick. D:

"you give blondes a bad name...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ

 

[OutHouse]

my theory is that the fumes moved to the back of the plane. ever fart on a school bus? ever notice the fumes travel backwards not to the front? i dont know the physics behind fumes inside a moving vehicle but i think that is what happened. the passengers in the back of the plane bitched and i be the flight attendant had her station in the rear of the plane and got annoyed with it.

 

[jhansman]

So, wait. I am flying in May. Should I paint my nails before I go to the airport?

 

[Numenorean]

I don't get it why would you be offended by someone painting their nails?

Might as well just let everyone smoke on planes too then eh?

 

[uclaLabrat]

Nail polish ingredients often include toluene. Solvents such as toluene and xylene are petroleum-based products that have been linked to cancer. Formaldehyde (formalin) may cause allergic reactions and is unsafe for use by asthmatic people. It is a carcinogen.

Nail polish removers are almost exclusively ethyl acetate or acetone, they don't usually contain much or any toluene. Also, toluene isn't much of a cancer risk, it gets oxidized in the body to benzoate....which is used as a food preservative.

 

[KeithP]

One side, where is the other?

The story I read indicated she had been asked to stop and complied. Then, she decided to finish a couple of the nails in the bathroom which lead to the argument.

It is hard to say what the actual facts are, not that the OP is interested in them. But one thing is clear, she wasn't detained for painting her nails, she was detained because the argument afterwards.

If I was stuck waiting to use the bathroom while someone was painting their nails I would be pissed. Cheers to Southwest.

-KeithP

 

[ShawnD1]

What she did on the flight is indefensible. However, being detained 10 hours by the police? Indefensible as well..

This. I like the smell of acetone, but not everyone does.


What did they do in the 10 hour interrogation? Rape her a bunch of times? I could tell my entire life story in half that time.

 

[Sa7aN]

meh over rection on the flight attendants part and poor judgement on the passengers part