You guys! This is happening on Twitter right now.
Alec Baldwin just tweeted:
Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt
Apart from the full-body shudder I felt at the words “reamed me out,” ha! I love that Alec Baldwin is mad about this. (That last hashtag, by the way, alludes to American Airlines’ bankruptcy.)
Anyway, the story doesn’t stop there. Baldwin tweeted a few more times—that 30 Rock plays inflight on American, that United should buy Words With Friends, that he switched to a different flight… Wait, what?
Wow. I can’t tell whether Baldwin was thrown off the flight, or maybe he just raised a stink over his ability to play Words With Friends in first class (I’m putting my money on the latter).
Edit: Oh, boy, am I wrong. Baldwin was actually kicked off the plane, according to the Los Angeles Times and the NY Daily News (the “conflict escalated,” they report). All because he was playing Words With Friends! Ha!
American Airlines was quick to respond to Baldwin’s hissy fit:
@AlecBaldwin Mr. Baldwin, we are looking into this. Please DM us contact information.
OK, sure: there has been a lot of talk of revising the whole policy about air safety and electronics—it’s possible that your Sony Walkman has no influence on the flight navigation instruments at all—but there are reasons those policies are in place, Mr. Baldwin. And communication with air traffic control is just as crucial “at the gate, not moving” as it is during takeoff. Duh.
Baldwin did tweet that he’ll never fly American again:
#theresalwaysunited Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants.
Alec Baldwin must be taxiing on the runway right now because his Twitter account has finally gone silent gotten really active again.
Just think how simply this could have been resolved if he had put away the iPad like he was being told to do instead of acting like the arrogant prima donna he has become know for. I am not a fan of the airline industry in any sense of the word, but when I do fly with them I realize I’m partaking in a contract that requires me to play by their rules, regardless of how lame those rules can be sometimes.
what an entitled brat. buy your own fucking plane.
When I see douchebags like Baldwin playing on their phones on airplanes AFTER THEY’VE BEEN TOLD TO TURN THEM OFF, I want to pimp slap them to knock some sense into them. Typical entitled twerps who think they know better than anyone how things should work.
What an arsehole. Turn off the bloody thing for ten minutes, Jesus.