California woman arrested in nail-painting incident on Southwest flight

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I was a passenger on a Continental flight where a young lady in the row immediately behind me was painting her nails. The ares was filled with the stong odor of nail polish solvent which especially in an enclosed cabin I found offensive. I politely asked her to stop - and she did for about 5 minutes. Once again I smelled the (flammible, volatile) nail polish solvent and this time complained to the flight attendant. The flight attendant explained to the nail-painting passenger that it was not just an issue of offensive odor, but there is an FAA regulation prohibiting open containers of flammible liquids. If she did not stop, the flight attendant threatened to bring the Captain to speak with her. This finally made the young lady stop, but she bitched loudly about it for the rest of the flight.

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