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Do you find this headline from the Times as alarming as I did?

Praying Passenger Ejected From Jet for Failing to Return to His Seat

Turns out a “bearded Orthodox Jewish man”  in the back of a San Francisco-bound plane sitting on the tarmac at JFK was removed after he ignored flight attendants’ orders to return to his seat.

According to the Times, the man explained that once the prayer (probably the morning Amidah, fellow passengers surmised) is started, it must be finished without interruption. He returned to his seat after about two and a half minutes — too late for airline authorities.

A spokeswoman for United Airlines said that the man was put on another flight Thursday morning.  “It’s important that the customers listen to the flight crew’s instructions, especially safety instructions,” she said.

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