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Russell Crowe owned by airline in Twitter spat over hoverboard rules

No chill.

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Hoverboards have been all the rage this holiday season (even if they don’t really hover and were causing spontaneous fires). They they also sent actor Russell Crowe into a different sort of rage.

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The 51-year-old actor was not too pleased on Monday when Virgin Australia barred him from boarding a flight with a hoverboard (it’s unclear if it was his hoverboard or his kids’). So, as any frustrated patron would, he took to Twitter to complain about ill treatment.

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Instead of succumbing to celebrity and making an exception for Crowe, the airline responded with a reasonable justification for the policy.

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Still frustrated and not ready to back down quite yet, Crowe was wondering where the airline’s “duty of responsibility” was in all of this. 

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Reminder, this is the man who also threw a Twitter tantrum when he thought Clickhole was real. Looks like he mostly utilizes his 140 characters to voice his anger, no matter how ridiculous the situation is.

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But Virgin Australia was also ready to put Crowe back in his place, letting him know that there’s indeed a section in booking and check-in that says hoverboards are a no-no.

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Virgin Australia will not take shit from its customers, even goddamn gladiators.

H/T Death and Taxes | Screenshot via Movieclips Trailers/YouTube

 
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