A social media watchdog perhaps summed it up best: “‘My parents would have thrown me off the plane mid-flight.”
Wild footage of a tiny tyke terrorizing a plane filled with passengers is racking up thousands and thousands of views — and sparking a heated debate about how the parents must have “handled” the situation.
The now-viral footage was first posted to Reddit’s popular “Public Freakout” section Wednesday under the title “letting children run wild during an 8-hour flight,” sparking nearly 20,000 “upvotes” and comments akin to “this ought to be an ad for condoms” and “for this reason I hate kids, especially this toddler age.”
The kicker shot features the pig-tailed hellion — “believed to be from the US” on a still unidentified airline — energetically jumping up and down on top of a tray table, visibly jarring the male passenger sitting within the seat directly in front of her.
Although he appeared to keep up his patience with the — based on Reddit commenters — “little brat,” outraged viewers did no such thing, dishing up heaps of parenting advice as an alternative.
“I may be awful, but never have I wanted a tray table to catastrophically fail as I did watching that,” one annoyed commenter quipped. “The poor guy in front.”
One other Reddit rabble rouser chimed in: “I’d NEVER allow one in every of my kids to disrupt someone this fashion. Talking a bit of loud is one thing. Having your toddler jumping on plane seats while holding onto one other person’s (strangers) chair is totally WRONG. I hope that man was reimbursed in a roundabout way. The parents probably saw nothing incorrect with this. UNACCEPTABLE!!!”
One got straight to the parental point: “I’d feel like a failed parent if my kids were doing this and I used to be just straight up allowing it,” while others were more considered with in-flight sanitation standards: “The bouncing is clearly infuriating but additionally the bare feet on the tray table … At all times wipe down your stations folks.”
Meanwhile, some social media justice warriors attempted accountable the ruckus on the airplane’s flight crew: “Shouldn’t the flight attendants have intervened?” one commenter queried. “If that’s the case, I hope that passenger got some compensation from the airline.”
Satirically, one airline attendant went viral this week by revealing whom she and her colleagues consider the “most hated passengers” on flights: And it’s not disruptive kids.
In truth, it’s often the frustrated folks who complain about said misbehaving kids who put the “ass” in “passenger,” based on Kat Kalamani, a six-year veteran of the friendly skies.
Amid nonstop stories about nightmare airplane passengers, this former US flight attendant is clearing the air on which flyers are essentially the most annoying — which, contrary to popular belief, are not crying babies. Indeed, the passengers that irritate the cabin crew essentially the most are the individuals who complain about crying babies, she claimed in a clip with nearly 2 million views.
“I promise you, there’s nothing that irritates us more as a flight attendant [than] when people complain about babies crying,” said Kalamani. Accompanying footage shows an indignant looking “Karen” on an undisclosed flight shushing a baby that’s throwing a tantrum off screen.
While these passengers may even see themselves as heroes of the flight, they’re actually annoying each staff and fellow travelers, per The Post’s previous coverage of her clip.
As an alternative of boo-hooing about bawling babies, Kalamani suggests perturbed passengers prep by bringing “noise cancelling headphones” — or perhaps (gasp) just politely “ask the parent in the event that they need assistance.”