F-Bomb T-Shirt Gets Passenger Mike Bahari Tossed From American Airlines Flight at O'Hare

Chicago - Robotics engineer Mike Bahari was passing through O'Hare on Sunday night on his way from New York to Oklahoma.

But the Brooklynite missed his connection, and was stuck in Chicago overnight without his luggage. The only shirt he had was the one he was wearing, which said: "F*** you, you f***ing f***."

"It's a shirt I picked out when I was in Key West on a Carnival Cruise. I had to get it. It was just-- me," he said.

The shirt wasn't a problem, flying from New York to O'Hare on Delta; he said a Delta employee even told him it was cool, as he got rebooked on to American Airlines.

American Airlines didn't think the shirt was so cool.

"The woman in charge came out and said, 'You're not flying with that shirt on.' I said, 'Excuse me?' She said, 'No, you're denied,'" he said.

Bahari said he turned it inside out, but was stopped again. American Airlines said that all passengers travel subject to "conditions of carriage," which say the airline can reject passengers "clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers."

Bahari has a two-year-old daughter and said he wouldn't want her to see if she was old enough to read.

"I wasn't offending anybody. Everybody just walked past -- they smiled and took pictures -- 'That's an awesome shirt!'" he said as he got on a Continental flight on Monday afternoon -- with his shirt inside out.

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