Where's the LUV? Southwest Airlines Kicks Passenger Off Flight for Tweeting

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In most circumstances, love (or LUV, Southwest Airlines’ NYSE Symbol after its home airport Love Field) does go a long way. In the case of Minnesota resident Duff Watson, it got him kicked off the plane.

According to his hometown CBS affiliate WCCO, Watson was asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis because he allegedly threatened the safety of an agent via Twitter. His tweet called out an agent by name, gave her the distinctive title “rudest agent in Denver,” and directed it at @SouthwestAir shortly before takeoff.

The complaint didn’t work out the way he planned.

Here’s the reason Watson was kicked off the plane, from what he recounted to WCCO:

“Something to the effect of, ‘Wow, rudest agent in Denver.

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