Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/passenger-says-united-trapped-man-masturbated-flight-airline-let-leave-rcna599076

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/

I don’t think this reads like an onion.

Yeah wtf, there's no humour here, just awfulness

Someone saw “not the onion” and took it literally

So it was you

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.

Pretty sure it was that. They could still have thrown some blankets on him and binded his wrists to the seat.

I doubt it was really ten foot, probably just a few inches

Flight attendants have duct taped people to seats in the past.

Yeah I suspect the "let him leave" wasn't down to United in this case, if law enforcement doesn't want to pick him up at deboarding they can't do much. Hopefully he gets charged, but it'd require the police to detain him on touchdown.

There is no reason they need to detain you to charge you.

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.

Yeah that was my point, sorry if I expressed it badly. That he'll probably be charged, but detainment if warranted would have come down to the police picking him up, related to a criminal charge and independent of a civil case by United.

Passenger handling is part of their training, including procedures to deal with deranged people

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:

https://archive.ph/xUswb

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.

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.

Yes, they duct tape people who pose a threat of death or serious injury to passengers and/or crew.

Someone with deficient stealth-jacking skills disgusts and offends passengers and crew, but doesn't threaten injury. Restraints are not justified.

There is a rather large community of people recording and storing radio communication between pilots and ATC. Chance are pretty good we'll hear whether the pilots requested law enforcement at the gate. If they failed to request law enforcement, that would be on the pilots and airline. If law enforcement failed to respond, that would be on the cops.

"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.

Restraints would just be a new kink.

Here is another article: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/united-airlines-flight-masturbating-incident/6551525/

The problem might be on your end, because both links are working fine for me.

What do you mean?

Someone with deficient stealth-jacking skills disgusts and offends passengers and crew, but doesn’t threaten injury. Restraints are not justified.

If you're hit with someone's spunk nonconsensually, I think that counts as injury or some approximate of that, legally.

Why should I try something different when it's already working? You are the one with the problem. Maybe you should try a less security hardened browser as it might be the cause of your problem.

It's certainly harm, and justified law enforcement intervention. But it's not a "open the emergency exit door in flight" level of harm. Nobody is threatened with death or grievous bodily harm here. Forceful intervention would increase that risk, rather than reducing it.

Harm and injury seem to be good enough reason to restrain. Dude could have gone into the bathroom and jacked it. Didn't have to do that in front of others, potentially including kids. Probably going to end up on a list and get sued.

Counterpoint: It's not a human need to goon or have sex in public.

Initiating a physical altercation to restrain him is more likely to result in injuries. I can't fault the crew for their decision not to restrain him.

I can fault them for not calling the cops.

Yeah, but you were framing it as if becauce it didn't worked to you, then it didn't worked to anyone else

It's a human need to have sex. But yeah, having sex in public should never be done.

"I don't like that he's actually saying something that makes sense so it's ableist" ahh comment

Your disability accommodations include a special security hardened browser?

A mod deleted my comment which was clearly a joke. Is this Reddit 2.0?

But he sure did.

No it isn’t.

How often do you encounter homeless people on an airplane?

the fuck is wrong with going to the airplane bathroom. what a creep.

Well? Did he cum?!

It loads fine in Vanadium, Firefox and elinks. Not sure what you're going on about. It seems like this is a problem with either your connection or your setup, rather than the website, considering myself and others have accessed it fine.

I guess you could say he arrived at his destination.

Jesus Christ, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!