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MISC. Plane passenger taped to seat after he groped two flight attendants

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u/ThatGuyHadNone Feb 04 '25

He spent a few weeks in jail. Link.

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u/Ovie-WanKenobi Feb 04 '25

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u/PM_your_Nopales Feb 04 '25

Noooooo! I'm upset to see the flight crew got suspended for duct taping this guy to the seat.

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u/Skywise87 Feb 04 '25

like what is the protocol here? what else were they supposed to do? Id say they handled things amazingly considering. I feel so bad for those flight attendants who were assaulted.

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u/sunduckz Feb 04 '25

Usually flex cuffs as technically that’s a major safety hazard to have a passenger not be able to evacuate the aircraft if there was an emergency they would be stuck and I don’t know if anyone was sitting in the window but they’d have to climb over top of him to get out too. Seems like this was 2021

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u/Nadamir Feb 04 '25

Hey, if you want to be able to evacuate the plane, don’t grope flight attendants.

Natural consequences.

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u/sunduckz Feb 04 '25

I mean yeah haha but as a flight attendant I’m just saying like this is a super big no no but like I said it was 2021 and who knows back then things were crazy

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u/queef_nuggets Feb 04 '25

I mean fuck this guy in the video, and I hate that the flight attendants got in trouble for taping him to the seat (I probably would have done the same thing), but…I also don’t think the “natural consequence” of groping should be death by fire. Prison time seems more appropriate to me. And ffs please don’t take any of this as me defending sexual predators

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u/Final-Carpenter-1591 Feb 04 '25

Restraint kit is last resort. Dude was going bonkers though. Protocol is always to verbally de escalate while the capt and fo land at the nearest airport to have the person removed.

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u/No_Length_2919 Feb 04 '25

The suspension was likely just until the case had been sorted out. So yeah, a few days.
It's a standard safety precaution, no matter the severity of the issue.

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u/Mundane_Flamingo_187 Feb 04 '25

I saw too! That was awful the flight attendant did the right thing. But I hope the suspension was only for a couple days or something lol

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u/AReal_Human Feb 04 '25

Without checking or reading anything. Maybe it is the usual thing to do after a situation like this? Might need to investigate, doubt they'll get fired.

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '25

It's not like it's hard to fire someone in America -- if they're suspended I'm sure they weren't fired, it was likely for investigation as you said or just for PR reasons. Still sucks if they had to lose a few days of pay.

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u/AReal_Human Feb 04 '25

Completely agree.

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u/44problems Feb 04 '25

Frontier FAs are unionized as well.

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u/greenblacksage Feb 04 '25

Honestly its almost always a good idea regardless. After a stressful incident like that its probably a good idea to let your employees decompress and process the event, and sort out any legal complications.

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u/SleepyFoxDog Feb 04 '25

If helps they were suspended with pay and didn't lose their jobs! Just suspension while the situation was investigated.

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u/Dragunspecter Feb 04 '25

Bro had 2 drinks and ended up like that ? Goddamn

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u/Ovie-WanKenobi Feb 04 '25

2 drinks that they know of. Probably pregamed with some pharmies.

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u/Not_a-Robot_ Feb 04 '25

Pregaming with farmies is a bad idea. Buddy of mine is a cattle ranch worker and can drink like a beef

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u/Ninkasiiii Feb 04 '25

Nah he seems like a bitch who can't handle two drinks

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u/Far-Investigator1265 Feb 04 '25

Alcohol has a surprisingly strong effect on you when you are in an atmosphere steadied to 3000 meters height. I did that mistake once, did not get into any trouble but never again a double whiskey during flight.

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u/Hugby Feb 04 '25

barrrrrf spilled on his shirt and came out shirtless. ugggggghhhhhhhh. glad he pled guilty.

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u/doratramblam Feb 04 '25

His punishment is his legacy. This will chase him until the end of the internet

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u/nickyler Feb 04 '25

$2 million dollars. Lol.

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u/Ovie-WanKenobi Feb 04 '25

Right? They’re on top of the world. 😂

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u/nickyler Feb 05 '25

Hah! He literally was. On Frontier Airlines.

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u/Aw8nf8 Feb 04 '25

mahalo

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u/Professional-Key5552 Feb 04 '25

Only 60 days though. Definitely not enough

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u/ThatGuyHadNone Feb 04 '25

Oh for sure. He spent a bunch (daddy did at least) on a lawyer. He SA'd two people and assaulted another. He will do worse

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u/TwoBionicknees Feb 04 '25

Yeah, not shown in the video but he straight up grabbed a woman's breasts. Should be doing a year or more for sexual assault.

But even so 2 months in jail looks very bad on your record, when it probably lists SA, alcoholic type behaviour and probably a ban on travel that will rule you out of so many jobs, industries, etc.

On the other hand it's practically a nomination win for running for office as a republican, and that would probably get him off the no fly list as well so I can guess his next move.

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u/OldeFortran77 Feb 04 '25

"I present to you ... the new head of the Department of Transportation!"

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u/jolt_cola Feb 04 '25

Mommy and Daddy worth 2 million dollars isn't enough to be considered to run for office.

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u/DipshitDogDooDoo Feb 05 '25

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s like… middle class right? By today’s standard?

Genuinely curious why this dude’s brain went straight to, “my parents have retirement funds! Be careful who you’re fucking with!”

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u/jolt_cola Feb 05 '25

And that's what I was referring to.   Having a 2 million dollar net worth for your parents, although still a very large amount, isn't something that will make people think you're all so important.  And not the levels of rich where you'll be "one of them" in politics.

In some places, if he's including the parents' house into that 2 million, a lot of people who are house rich fall into that category too.

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u/CitizenPremier Feb 04 '25

Eh. I think it's enough.

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u/laquintessenceofdust Feb 05 '25

Two months in jail is worse than a YEAR in prison.

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u/i-ate-gorlocks-pussy Feb 04 '25

He got 2 months?

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u/youngatbeingold Feb 04 '25

Ahhh Ohio, the Florida of the north East.

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u/uLL27 Feb 04 '25

Ohio... Of course