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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong gets Southwest Airline boot too

By April MacIntyre Sep 4, 2011, 20:57 GMT

Billie Joe Armstrong of the US band Green Day performs at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 09 August 2010. EPA/Steve C. Mitchell

First, it was filmmaker Kevin Smith, also the actor "Silent Bob" from many of his own movies, who was asked to leave a Southwest flight because of his weight.

Now, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low.

The Bay Area rock musician was traveling from Oakland to Burbank when the incident occurred. "Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f**k? No joke!" Armstrong tweeted Thursday night.

Kevin Smith was ALSO booted on his Oakland to Burbank flight because he was "too wide for the sky."

Smith took to Twitter and had at it:

"Dear @SouthwestAir - I know I'm fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?" Smith tweeted.

"I'm way fat... But I'm not THERE just yet," he continued. "But if I am, why wait til my bag is up, and I'm seated WITH ARM RESTS DOWN. In front of a packed plane with a bunch of folks who'd already I.d.ed me as 'Silent Bob.'"

Smith was given a $100 voucher and put on a different Southwest flight, from which he continued to Tweet the experience:

"Hey @SouthwestAir! Look how fat I am on your plane! Quick! Throw me off!" he tweeted with an accompanying picture of himself.

So the slim Green Day rocker was the right weight for the unusually aggressive Oakland Southwest crew, but his pants flipped them out.

Allegedly Armstrong was approached by a flight attendant and told to pull his pants up.

Armstrong allegedly said, "Don't you have better things to do then worry about that?" When the flight attendant reportedly repeated the request and threatened to have Armstrong removed from the plane, Armstrong relied "I'm just trying to get to my f**king seat."

Armstrong and the person he was traveling with were then removed from the flight.

Southwest Tweeted their mea culpa: "Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone from our Customer Relations Team will reach out to you to get more details."