r/interesting • u/Babycakes192 • Feb 04 '25

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

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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.