Words With Friends Game Gets Alec Baldwin Booted From Plane
Posted by has in alec baldwin, hollywood, male celebrities, words with friends on Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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"Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt," Baldwin posted on his official Twitter account Tuesday.
Former MTV Networks President Michael J. Wolf, who was on the same New York-bound American Airlines flight, also tweeted about the incident.
"On an AA flight at LAX. Alec Baldwin removed from the plane We had to go back to the gate. Terrible that everyone had to wait,"
Developed by Zynga With Friends, the addictive Scrabble-like word game application “Words with Friends” is a multi-player game wherein players exchange turns forming words horizontally or vertically on the board, trying to score as many points as possible for each word. The game is available for cross-platform play on devices running the Android and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) operating systems and is also available on Facebook. It has garnered support from celebrities including John Mayer, Rainn Wilson, Terrell Owens, and Eliza Dushku.
Apart from his first tweet, Alec Baldwin also told his Twitter "followers" the following:
"Now, as I was kicked off this flight, the word I was playing was UNITED.
"But, oddly, 30 Rock plays inflight on American.
"Now on the 3 o'clock American flight. The flight attendants already look.....smarter.
"#theresalwaysunited Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants," the actor added.
Less than a day after the incident, Baldwin deactivated his Twitter account to "focus on 30 Rock," his publicist Matthew Hiltzik said in a tweet. Baldwin, however, told his Followers that he planned to create a new account soon.
Meanwhile, American Airlines has posted the following on its Facebook account referring to the Alec Baldwin incident:
"Since an extremely vocal customer has publicly identified himself as being removed from an American Airlines flight on Tuesday, Dec. 6, we have elected to provide the actual facts of the matter as well as the FAA regulations which American, and all airlines, must enforce. Cell phones and electronic devices are allowed to be used while the aircraft is at the gate and the door is open for boarding. When the door is closed for departure and the seat belt light is turned on, all cell phones and electronic devices must be turned off for taxi-out and take-off. This passenger declined to turn off his cell phone when asked to do so at the appropriate time. The passenger ultimately stood up (with the seat belt light still on for departure) and took his phone into the plane’s lavatory. He slammed the lavatory door so hard, the cockpit crew heard it and became alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked. They immediately contacted the cabin crew to check on the situation. The passenger was extremely rude to the crew, calling them inappropriate names and using offensive language. Given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding," American Airlines wrote.