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This clip has the internet deeply divided. No reasonably sane person is claiming this guy is in the right for bashing this woman’s seat. If behavior like this took place anywhere else in life that guy’s probably going to jail. But some people are heralding him as a hero for taking a stand against recliners.
I personally don’t recline. Not because I’m some sort of giant. I’m perfectly average in stature. But I try and go through life with a ‘live and let live’ mentality and I’d rather not anger the person behind me by reclining my seat right into their knees which airplane seats are already miserable.
The woman in the clip who reclined her seat and had it repeatedly punched by the person behind her is now telling her side of the story. She claims she wants him prosecuted and the flight attendant fired. Her claim is she went to the flight attendant for help but was reprimanded instead.
Here’s the clip:
This video has the internet legitimately divided .
Dude is in the last seat on the plane. Seat doesn’t recline.
Hers does. And she reclines.
He’s upset, and is punching her seat incessantly— so she records.
Who is right?!
Who is wrong?!See you at 7p on #FOX5LION@fox5dc pic.twitter.com/jjjTLLwvEc
— Marina Marraco (@MarinaMarraco) February 12, 2020
The woman has since spoken out on Twitter about the incident:
https://twitter.com/steelersfanOG/status/1225939702542458886
https://twitter.com/steelersfanOG/status/1226180457152294913
And now she’s gone on TMZ to discuss what happened. She wants action to be taken and I don’t blame her at all. I wouldn’t blame her if she’d stood up and punched that guy in the face.
Wendi appeared on “TMZ Live” and said she wants to press charges against the man for what she says went down before she started videotaping him. She also explains why she never actually went to the FBI. As for the flight attendant … Wendi claims the woman demanded she delete the video. Wendi wasn’t having it … and now she wants the flight attendant fired.
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7:47 AM PT — A rep for American Airlines tells TMZ, “We are aware of a customer dispute that transpired … The safety and comfort of our customers and team members is our top priority, and our team is looking into the issue.” (via)
These are quite possibly the two worst people in society and somehow they found each other on a regional jet.
There are countless people on the Internet right now sounding off about which person was in the wrong. It’s easy: they both were.
repeatedly punching the back of a reclined seat is preposterous — don’t do that goofy shit — just sit there and take the L that the universe has delivered to you
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) February 14, 2020
Who is wrong? Maybe the guy punching the seat. https://t.co/QTCl7RgsIf
— Gavin Free (@GavinFree) February 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/breakingavnews/status/1227665251493142528
Only a complete piece of shit punches someone’s seat because they aren’t getting their way. And only a monster with no manners would recline their seat into someone’s knees after they’d politely been asked not to do so.
These people are the worst.