Airlines don't mess around, even with people who mess around with them.
Vine star Jerome Jarre allegedly learned that lesson the hard way on Tuesday when he staged a video shoot involving jumping out of the airline lavatory in a speedo, holding an inflatable turtle.
Yes. You read that correctly.
Jarre is a professional self-promoter -- as of June of this year, he was the fourth most-followed personality on Vine. He has 7.5 million followers on the social network.
According to his tweets, he was filming a Vine on board a flight to Miami that involved jumping out of the lavatory wearing a Speedo, and holding an inflatable, which he described as a duck, but a picture he shared shows a blow-up turtle. The six-second video has not been posted to his Vine account.
The airline crew, in response, told him he would be arrested when the plane reached its destination, Jarre tweeted.
Jarre turned to his online audience for support, starting the hashtag #AmericanAirlinesCHILLOUT:
PLEASE HELP ME TWEET #AmericanAirlinesCHILLOUT & RT PEOPLE!! pic.twitter.com/xcWPcKrJV3— JEROME JARRE (@jeromejarre) October 28, 2014
When an airline decides to have someone arrested, a hashtag is not a valuable defense, it seems.
JUST LANDED. ABOUT TO BE ARRESTED. PLEASE TWEET & RT #AmericanAirlinesCHILLOUT pic.twitter.com/HGHJNesp9r— JEROME JARRE (@jeromejarre) October 28, 2014
LANDING IN MIAMI IN 3 MINUTES. ABOUT TO BE ARRESTED. I NEED YOUR HELP!!!— JEROME JARRE (@jeromejarre) October 28, 2014
Miami-Dade County Police's airport unit did not have a log of Jarre's alleged arrest as of 9:30 p.m. ET. Mashable has reached out to American Airlines for confirmation, and will update this post when they respond.
In his latest tweet around 8 p.m. ET, Jarre said: "COPS ARE ENTERING THE FLIGHT."
UPDATE: Oct. 29, 2014
A spokesperson for American Airlines told Mashable no one was arrested and that the airline did not press charges. The airline did not say if law enforcement was called to the plane when it arrived in Miami.
Three hours after saying cops were arriving, Jarre posted a photo:
I AM FREE!!!! YOU ALL ARE THE BEST FRIENDS IN THE WORKD pic.twitter.com/EvARQVYMK5— JEROME JARRE (@jeromejarre) October 29, 2014