NEWS: Woman Changes My Mind About Public Stoning

POLITICS: Woman Changes My Mind About Public Stoning

We have a leader for the Asshole of the Year Award. Leigh Robbins is a 35-year-old mother of two from Virginia. She is also a paranoid idiot who should never be allowed near an airplane again for the rest of her life.

Last Tuesday Robbins was in the San Diego airport waiting for her flight to Chicago. Her children, who are four and nine-years-old, accompanied her. We can assume they are also fucking morons. She spoke to a Middle Eastern man standing in front of her in line who said he was in the army and was leaving for Iraq. Leigh, being a genius, noticed that the man did not have an accent and spoke perfect English. She’s smart like that. But she was concerned about his appearance. He was not clean-shaven and didn’t have a military haircut like she has seen so many times in the movies.

Then six other men joined the not Army looking guy – and they spoke Arabic. Holy shit! That is not English! Leigh’s brain said that to her, and when Leigh’s brain says something, she takes action. She grabbed her kids and went to security. But security was not interested in her keen terrorist finding eye, or as it is known in the Robbins’ house, “terrodar.”

Clearly airport security did not have the keen insight of a housewife from Virginia, so she called the police on her phone. Three policemen came to speak with her. They also told her there was nothing suspicious about the men, explaining that the men had gone through security and their bags had been screened. And an American Airlines official came over and told her everything was fine, as did another security officer. Quite a few people had assured nervous Leigh, yet it was still not enough.

First of all, no, I don’t think about it everyday. I fly all the time, and I actually never think about it. I can understand how it may enter people’s minds, but normal human beings are not consumed by their madness after being assured by every security official in the airport. And you were overreacting; there is nothing “maybe” about it. Especially because you weren’t done yet.

Leigh then boarded the plane with her two precious children. It was 11pm. Of course, she then told the flight crew about the suspicious men and took her seat in the back of the plane, near the bathrooms. In a bold move, one of the men walked past her to use the restroom.

Uh huh. Or maybe he just had that Army look on his face. The kind a soldier has when he is about to go to Iraq for a year. Or maybe he was tired. Or maybe he forgot where his seat was, or maybe he was looking for one of his friends, or maybe he was looking for that hot girl he saw boarding the plane. Or maybe the lady who was crying and staring at him freaked him out.

Leigh was so scared that she demanded the plane turn around and let her off – but not until it had left the gate, according to the airline.

You don’t need to, Leigh. Your actions speak louder than any words that may ever spill forth from your anxiety-riddled brain.

The pilot returned to the gate and police were called. Which is sort of what you have to do in this case. You cannot have a lunatic passenger on a plane, freaking everyone out by saying someone is a terrorist. It is a recipe for disaster.

Leigh got off the plane with her soon to be Prozac eating children. The seven men were also taken off the plane and questioned by airport security. The men did not understand why they were being questioned and were embarrassed that they were being treated like criminals. It was determined they “posed no threat.”

Why? Because they were Iraqi-American contractors working for Defense Training Systems, who had been training US Marines at Camp Pendleton.

One of the men, David Al Watan, fled Iraq in 1991. His mother was killed by Saddam Hussein's regime. And he was not happy with the treatment he received from American Airlines.

Yeah, but would you force a plane to turn around because a brown person was speaking a different language? Because that is what an American does. Al Watan should be upset with American Airlines because there was no reason to question him or his co-workers. The airline should have just tossed the crazy lady off the plane and gone on their way. And they should not have allowed her to board another plane.

To add insult to injury, the flight was unable to take off. San Diego airport has a curfew of 11:30 pm and the plane was unable to taxi in time. The airline was forced to put 126 passengers in a hotel for the night and fly them out the next morning at 10:15 am.

Leigh is, of course, sorry. Later that night, after she put her two children, who have no chance of being successful in life, to bed, turned on the TV and learned that the men were Marine consultants. Leigh wants to apologize.

You think? But Leigh wants everyone to know she did it for her kids.

Aw, are your babies tiny wittle people? Do day need protecting from da big bad terrowists?

Um, by stopping a plane from taking off because brown skinned people are speaking a different language, that’s how.

This is where I changed my mind about public stoning. I know I face an uphill battle, but there has never been a greater example of someone who should be slowly killed. Okay, that’s a bit extreme. So, how about this: Leigh Robbins should never be allowed to fly again. She has just given up her rights, because of her idiotic actions and her claims that she would do it again. Fuck her. Keep her off airplanes. And while we’re at it, take away her children. They are doomed.

Shallow gene pools do need a little chlorine adding every once in a while...

I laughed till I cried at her stupidity.

This kind of crap is what makes us a laughingstock in the eyes of the world. And rightly so.

How did we become such a country of pussies?

I've said it once and I'll say it again: yeah, that was great.

BECAUSE TERRORISTS ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! NINE-ELEVEN!!! NINE-ELEVEN!!! MUSLIMS ARE INVADING AMERICA DISGUISED AS MEXICANS!!! NINE-ELEVEN!!!

well, there's 126 people who will think twice about delaying their flight over paranoia.

What I don't get is that someone working at the airport had to have known they were legit, so why couldn't they explain that to her, or maybe even escort her over and say "hey, these guys are alright...this dude right here could be the god father of my offsrping!" or even, "Hey, how about a nice round of applause from all the passenegers for these service men keeping the world safe for paranoid housewives?" (ok, that last one might be going too far, I know)

I see brown people very day engaging in suspicious behavior, but I don't raise any alarm, you know why? I see white people engaging it suspicious behavior (like turning in innocent people because they are paranoid)

Leigh Robbins for president

Why do you hate America?

Great. I've got to fly next week, and this will be all I'm thinking about until I'm actually in the air. When I fly, all I want to do is get through security, get on the plane, put on my headphones, have one or two of those little mini-booze bottles, eat my peanuts and get to wherever the hell it is that I'm going. Having to put up with the paranoid ramblings of some baby-popping, midwestern breeder is not on this itinerary. I'm kinda with Bill Maher on this one: How about "Fly at your own risk airlines"? It says "shit happens" at the bottom of the ticket...

Like, such as. In the Iraq.

Oh wait, sorry, that was 2004. Guess it had lingering effects.

I would be in favor of revoking her voting rights. People like this give us a lot of our problems by electing politicians too similar to them.

Reaper you keep depressing me.
Do you not have any news about Miss Robbins saving a kitty from a tree?
Or becoming the Candy Queen of Unicornland?
She's certainly living in a fantasy world.

But . . . but , she did it for the children.

I am simply awestruck that she said she'd do the same thing again.
That has just GOT to earn you a red flag somewhere.

Please, Please, Please, keep this ass-clown off any form of public transport for the rest of her pointless, racist, narrow-minded life.

As if there weren't enough real issues with traveling all over the world with all the other assholes "representing" Americans... now we have this dipshit.

I have to get a Canadian passport or something... Just for traveling, mind you...

At the risk of being equally stereotyping she must have contracted something in San Diego.

I think it would have been great if some white, blonde hair, blue-eyed good old American would have stood up and said, "I'm doing this for the human race," and beat the shit out of her and her children and let her know that anyone that breathes can be a threat and that she needs to calm the fuck down. Then they could have kicked out a window and lumped their asses out onto the tarmac and flew away all while having a laugh at their expense. The pilot could have used their bodies as speed bumps before he taxied onto the runway and the baggage throwers could have came and pissed and shit on their carcasses.

Okay maybe I'm getting carried away. But this lady and her children have never nor will they ever contribute anything to this life and I'm pretty saddened to be alive, knowing they somehow deserve the same rights as I do. I mean, is she really retarded? Because if she has 47 chromosomes or something, maybe I can pat her on the head and say "sorry you had a rough day, want a gum drop?" But somehow I think maybe she's not.

this made me realize, the TRUE reason I'm nervous about flying again. . . .the wait to get on the plane while some overly paranoid douche frames someone just because they're dark skinned.

. . .and have a beard. .

That's why I wear sunscreen.