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.

I do think she would have been, if not "justified", then "excused" if she had tried to strike him, as his behavior would likely be considered inciting. And anything he did in response to having been struck would have justified restraining him.

But there would have to be some kind of physical altercation involving him before they could pull out the duct tape.

They definitely should have asked for a volunteer to swap seats with her. An air marshall could have arrested and handcuffed him.

Sounds like they where landing. Hence she had to sit as well. The guy probably could have waited till he was in the airport.

Easy cum, easy go

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.

They are probably talking about ReCaptcha. Loads for me from my normal IP (still has a chance to show up) but not from Tor. Latter passable in Tor Browser when fucking with the regular challenge for a while then doing the audio.

FWIW, the captcha didn't trigger for me in Vanadium over a VPN, so it's not as if you have to completely disable any privacy measures to access it, at least.

Believe it or not, you're not required to subject yourself to sex crimes as part of your employment.

Realistically the best response was probably just letting the passenger stand with the crew in their little cubby? I'm sure there's laws and rules that the crew thought prevented that, because most people think there isn't flexibility unless you're a billionaire.

What absolutely should have happened regardless was calling the police and security.

Same here.

What's probably happening here is some people hear "in public" and think it means "in public view" and not what it literally means, "not on private property open to the public"

WTF? Really? Strongly disagree.

Maybe, yeah

And an emotional support canned ham, you discriminatory fuck. How very dare you.

/s, just in case anyone needs it -- for support

where did you come from cotton-eyed Joe?

Ah add it to the list of reasons not to fly.

Planned lawsuit?

“That kid is back on that escalator.”

Fate missed its chance when it didn't seat him next to the woman who took her pants off.

A fellow half mile high club member.

tips hat

Snagging him right at the arrival gate seems pretty reasonable, and certainly security has done so after flights for many various offenses in the past.

But yeah, at the very least they should know who the guy was and be able to provide information to the authorities in order to press charges.

That's a perspective I hadn't considered, thank you for sharing. I hope that you're okay, be safe.

The air martial should have been seated there

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!

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.

This story was on the WildFeed comm a couple of days ago… and, yeah, United did almost everything poorly or wrongly. Mind blowingly so.

genuinely it helps significantly relieve restless leg syndrome, which on a long flight can be downright torturous.

but only if there's not a line of people waiting of course

He definitely could’ve waited. The flight was a regional trip and only an hour long.

I bet he does it for the thrill. If he gets off on the publicity of the act and having other passengers be captive around him, then an airport bathroom would have defeated the purpose. He wanted his fellow passengers to witness what he did, like a flasher or exhibitionist.

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.

This shit is sexual assault. Fuck you.

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.

Yeah, a homeless person going at it in an alley, the woods, or somewhere else where they're clearly trying to be discreet is a huge difference from someone masturbating on shared transit next to someone

Definitely. Probably some needs attention or needs people to see him. Isn't this the issue Louie C.K. had with flashing other female comedians? It's sexual assault whatever it was. Hope the women Is getting better help now.

In addition to their rarity on flights they're basically never allowed to reveal they're an air marshall.

I can't cum unless there's a big line outside tbh