Oct 6, 2005 1:59 pm US/Pacific

Woman Tossed Off Plane For Obscene Bush T-Shirt

(AP) RENO

A woman was booted off a Southwest Airlines flight in Reno for wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the F-word. Lorrie Heasley of Woodland, Wash., said she plans to press a civil-rights complaint against the airline over Tuesday's action at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Heasley said she wore the T-shirt as a gag, and wanted her parents, both Democrats, to see it when they picked her up at the Portland, Ore., airport.

The 32-year-old lumber saleswoman said she thinks she had a right to wear it.