Yesterday morning, LA food stylist Adam C. Pearson was removed from a Delta plane after a fellow passenger brought Pearson’s suspicious behavior to the attention of the flight crew. That “suspicious behavior”? Pearson’s knuckle tattoo, which reads “Atom Bomb” — a reference to a childhood nickname. “I was just shocked,” Pearson told the LA Times. “All eyes were on me, I felt everyone staring at me and I was like, ‘I didn’t do anything.’ “Pearson, who is a Delta Gold Medallion flyer, was eventually cleared and allowed back on the plane, but says he wouldn’t mind a public apology for the inconvenience. “I’m not out for blood,” Pearson says, “but why didn’t they offer to book that other person on another flight if they didn’t like my tattoos? Why was that other person more important than me?”
A Delta rep said the incident would be investigated.
