Bobby Abtahi, a Dallas attorney who is also the vice-chair of the City Plan Commission, got his butt thrown off a Virgin Airlines flight because the captain and crew didn’t feel comfortable with him on the flight.

He’s Iranian. Oh crap, face it, he’s brown.

Abtahi said that he was boarding a flight from New York’s La Guardia to Dallas when a gate agent pulled him aside and said the crew did not feel comfortable having him on the flight. When he asked why, the gate agent said it was the captain’s decision and went to speak with him.

When she returned, she told him he wouldn’t be allowed on the flight because he had walked in front of a flight attendant walking in the terminal doors, Abtahi said.

Abtahi says that he did have a five day beard because he’d been on vacation on a beach.  But to assume that everyone who walks in front of a flight attendant gets thrown off a flight is a tad – just a tad – unfreekinbelieveable.

He got a flight with American Airlines without a problem.

Virgin Airlines has apologized and called it “a misunderstanding.”  They gave him his money back and some free flights, you know, that he can get thrown off of in the future.

Thanks to Another Susan for the heads up.