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Wed, Apr 06, 2005

Porn Purveyor Pulled From Plane

Threatens To Sue South African Airline

"I'm seeing my lawyer later this afternoon."

AC Hoffmann is mad and looking for trouble. There he was, minding his own business, reading a pornographic magazine on board a Nationwide Airlines flight at Cape Town, South Africa, when a flight attendant asked him to stow the reading material. The reason? The airline told reporters other passengers complained.

"He became abusive and threatened the cabin crew, using inappropriate language," airline spokesman Roger Whittle said. "His behavior was considered a threat to a safe flight and that is why the captain decided to set him off the plane."

So is reading a porn magazine on an airplane against the law in South Africa? Nope. Is it against Nationwide Airline policy? Well, actually... nope.

"We can't have policy on everything. At some point common sense kicks in," Whittle said. "If he (Hoffmann) had said that he really wanted to read the magazine and was there somewhere more private he could, we probably would have accommodated him. But he went mad."

FMI: www.flynationwide.co.za

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