Please Do Not Speak Tamil in the Airport

Oct 4th, 2006 | By Jared Blank

A man speaking Tamil into his cellphone while waiting to board an American Airlines flight from Seattle to Dallas was investigated because someone reported him to airport security officials. The person who reported him did not speak Tamil, but found it suspicious that someone would be using a cellphone and not speaking English. This is what it’s come to. The Tamil speaker said from now on he would only speak on his cellphone in English in the airport.

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