http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090106...s_090106002219

In a nutshell - a guy, who's name sounds middle eastern wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script - tries to board an airplane.

The airline (Jet Blue) asks him to cover his shirt - with a shirt provided by them - and move him to the back of the plane.

He gets awarded $240k for defamation of character?!?!?!

Damn, I want to be a minority!

Btw, the t-shirt read "We will not be silent." What does that mean?

 

i'm an asian terrorist. you're a cop and i'm telling you so you should report this to your captain. i'll get some money and we can split it

 

and i wish i wasnt [a minority]

 

someday you won't be. someday, it'll be us white guys who are the minority.

 

in CA Mexicans make up the majority

 

**** it, the guy doesn't deserve 240k, but the airline deserves to pay it for being so ridiculous. If I saw a shirt with some Arabic script, I wouldn't think a damned thing of it.

 

I say he deserves it.

 

I don't think he should have gotten $240k for that...

 

What the airline did was bullshit, but $240k seems a bit excessive.

 

Shouldn't the title been "Can you believe this Shiite"