Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong kicked off airplane for rejecting The Man's rules about saggy pants
The establishment often waxes nostalgic about the days when the gentry dressed up for air travel, but that era is long gone, squares. We didn’t have the punk rock revolution so that Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong couldn’t wear saggy trousers on an airplane, after all, but apparently Southwest Airlines clings to a more outmoded, authoritarian viewpoint, recently kicking Armstrong off their plane for refusing to kowtow to their fascist pants rules. According to an ABC producer who shared a flight with Armstrong from Oakland to Burbank, Armstrong was confronted by a flight attendant who expressed concern that the level of his waistband was promoting dangerous ideas about nonconformity, and asked him to hike it up. Armstrong, ever mindful of all the bigger problems in the world that just continue to be ignored, responded by asking her “if there weren't 'better things to do than worry about that?'”