Southwest Flight Out Of Midway Forced To De-Plane After Woman Stabbed Guy Sitting Next To Her With A Pen Because He Was Crowding The Armrest

CHICAGO — A plane departing from Chicago’s Midway Airport Thursday was forced to return to the gate after an altercation between to passengers.As the plane was taxing on the runway, passengers say a woman jabbed a pen into the arm of the man next to either stop him from snoring or to move his hand that was touching her arm.

Initial reports via Twitter from a fellow passenger referred to the incident as the woman “stabbing” the man in the arm with a pen.Southwest downplays the incident saying in a statement, “A customer on Flight 577 was removed from the flight for poking her seatmate with a pen to stop him from snoring.”The statement went on to say, “The flight departed shortly after the passenger was removed and is now on its way to MHT. The passenger in question will be accommodated on a later flight. No injuries were reported.” Southwest airlines flight 577 finally took off two hours after a passenger stabbed or poked her seatmate with a pen.  It happened about 1:45 as the plane, heading to Manchester, New Hampshire just outside of Boston, was about to take off. Chicago police officers escorted the woman off the plane.  She remains at the airport where she may face charges.  Another woman said the passenger named Lenny was okay but was sore and shocked at what had happened.

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Well this is a joke. Forget the snoring story, that’s straight up not true, this was armrest war 101. And I don’t care if it was a stabbing or a simple poke, when you sit down in your seat on an airplane and you’re getting ready to take off, EVERYTHING is fair game in the battle for arm rest position. Once that plane is in the air it’s over, but from the moment they close the doors to the moment you take off you can legally do anything you want to maintain space on that rest. Pushing, snoring, sneezing, kicking, stabbing, punching, anything. Because when it comes down to it we all know flying sucks, there is not a single fun thing about it, so you take the small victories however they may come. Primo spot in the overhead compartment, a flight that passes out  snacks, breezing through security, bottomless chips at Chili’s, it’s all about finding the little things that remind you that you are human and life isn’t all that bad, and nothing signifies that more than the arm rest. Be reasonable CPD, please, this woman did nothing wrong.

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No worse feeling than coming down those escalators in Midway to see the 1 security line for the entire airport is 17 miles long. There will be a point in my life where I’ll just say fuck it and go home and not go where I was supposed to go.