Welcome to Handel on the Law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

Now, the vast majority of us have been on airplanes.

I mean, a number of people that fly, especially in your entire life, virtually everybody in America.

So one of the things that we experience in life and more difficulty on an airplane is when someone has B.O.

Man, you're an enclosed area, even though the air is exchanged out, I don't know, every five minutes or whatever.

I mean, good, powerful BO really rocks you, doesn't it?

And the airline crew can actually remove you for,

if you have a real bad case of body odor. It's more problematic when they want to remove you at 30,000 feet. Okay, I understand that there's a legal issue there if they try to get you off the airplane there but getting on the airplane is where it all happens and so if enough people

complain about someone with body odor or a crew member says you smell so bad that you're

basically interfering with the joyfulness of this flight, as if everybody enjoys a flight, but at least interferes with the ability of people to even get on the plane and sit there for four hours, five hours.

So you're being asked to move.

And I have seen it both ways.

I have smelled people that reeked so much that occasionally I've seen them removed from the airplane.

And not only have I complained, dozens of people have complained.

And sometimes even with dozens of people complaining, the flight crew

won't do anything about it. Literally, it won't do anything about it. I've been told just to suck it up.

We're not taking this person off the plane. So it goes both ways. Now, there is a lawsuit against

American Airlines over this issue, but it's not just someone stinks to high heaven and the complaints came

flying in. Three black men are suing American Airlines. This happened in federal court, claiming they

were victims of blatant and egregious race discrimination after employees, crew stewardesses I think male or female

stewardess ordered them off these are three black men and in addition ordered five more

off the plane now you're talking eight African-. Maybe they were African Africans for all I know.

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