Edit: Original site is paywalled and seeming to not always load, here is another article about the incident: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/united-airlines-flight-masturbating-incident/6551525/
For the record, if that happens to you, stand up and be a public nuisance.
“EXCUSE ME FLIGHT ATTENDANT BUT, can I please have a plastic spray shield to protect myself while this man masturbates midflight?”
You can also involve the other passengers directly, if they don’t react to your obvious public call for help (above) by asking if anyone else sees this guy flogging the dolphin in Seat 33B?
The more euphemisms you can use, the better!
I’m not a woman so there is probably some bit of deep ingrained fear that I’m lacking here, but this was pretty much my first thought when I heard about this.
Maybe public shaming was this guy’s kink, but I think being loud is the right move in this situation. There should have been pictures and videos of this guy.
As a woman, yeah I’d struggle not to freeze up after being ignored. The big thing is that someone doing that is probably crazy and gives no fucks as to consequences and the people in charge have displayed a level of apathy that I wouldn’t know how far it goes. He might attack and they might not stop him.
WTF, OP? I had to find an archive to get the rest of the text, and there was a lot more to the story. As usual, United has fully lived down to its abysmally low standards.
For anyone else who has zero intentions of paying for a NBC subscription for one article, here’s an archive link. There are known problems with the site, but I could not find another archive that had the content. Use at your own discretion:
Holy shit, this is infuriating. And then they try to gaslight her in email.
That fucking guy should have been arrested and banned forever from the airline. I have no idea what the fuck the crew was thinking.
I hope she can press charges and sue the airline, IANAL but it seems like she has a solid case, given how NBC judged her story to be true and newsworthy.
This story was on the WildFeed comm a couple of days ago… and, yeah, United did almost everything poorly or wrongly. Mind blowingly so.
Anyone who got past the paywall know what protocol was violated? From the information available, I’m sincerely unsure of what they could have done. Were they supposed to go up the aisle asking someone else to sit next to the masturbator? Were they supposed to swap one of them to one of the flight attendant seats? Can they even detain the guy after landing? I legitimately don’t know what they’re supposed to do in this situation, other than provide information for the victim to press charges
Public masturbation is illegal. The protocol is probably to inform the commander and law enforcement and ask the person to stop, and restraining him if he does not comply.
Well, that’s probably why they let him leave, nobody wants to touch that guy with a ten foot pole, let alone restrain him.
I doubt it was really ten foot, probably just a few inches
Pretty sure it was that. They could still have thrown some blankets on him and binded his wrists to the seat.
Restraints would just be a new kink.
Restraining him is almost definitely not something the flight crew should attempt. Flight crew are not trained for this and could get injured. It could also easily escalate the situation and the last thing you want is a fight on board while in air. That could cause danger to the plane or other passengers. Asking him to stop and detaining him after landing would probably be the protocol.
Passenger handling is part of their training, including procedures to deal with deranged people
I am technically trained in CPR. You absolutely shouldn’t rely on my CPR skills if there is another choice. Wrangling a deranged person is difficult even for people with ample training and experience (e.g. cops), let alone for flight crew with very basic training. If the person is not a danger to himself or others, there is no reason they would escalate the situation during flight.
“deranged” meaning “posing a physical threat to passengers and crew”.
Stealth-jacking is certainly offensive, but it is a disgusting offense, not a threatening offense.
I feel like an attendant should have swapped seats with her. Because a) it’s the right thing to do and b) to cover the airline’s ass a bit.
Genuine question, is that allowed? I know their seats are different, I don’t know if that would incur some liability
Flight attendants have duties to attend to in case of an emergency upon landing. For example, opening doors and deploying evacuation slides. For that, they have to be at their stations.
If there were extra, off-duty crew aboard, that would have been reasonable. They could have asked if they had any law enforcement personnel aboard, or asked for volunteers.
The air martial should have been seated there
There almost certainly wasn’t one. There’s only about 3000 air marshals total, but over 10,000 airline flights per day. If there was one on the flight, this guy would have been taken into custody. I’d be surprised if 1 in 10 flights had an air marshal aboard.
In addition to their rarity on flights they’re basically never allowed to reveal they’re an air marshall.
Well? Did he cum?!
Jesus Christ, man! There’s just some things you don’t talk about in public!
Easy cum, easy go
where did you come from cotton-eyed Joe?
This shit is sexual assault. Fuck you.
I guess you could say he arrived at his destination.
Fate missed its chance when it didn’t seat him next to the woman who took her pants off.
Planned lawsuit?
Ah add it to the list of reasons not to fly.
