Not The Onion

22847 readers

892 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

331

Passenger says United ‘trapped’ her next to a man who masturbated on flight. Then the airline let him leave. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nocturne@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

83 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Edit: Original site is paywalled and seeming to not always load, here is another article about the incident: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/united-airlines-flight-masturbating-incident/6551525/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's certainly harm, and justified law enforcement intervention. But it's not a "open the emergency exit door in flight" level of harm. Nobody is threatened with death or grievous bodily harm here. Forceful intervention would increase that risk, rather than reducing it.

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Harm and injury seem to be good enough reason to restrain. Dude could have gone into the bathroom and jacked it. Didn't have to do that in front of others, potentially including kids. Probably going to end up on a list and get sued.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Initiating a physical altercation to restrain him is more likely to result in injuries. I can't fault the crew for their decision not to restrain him.

I can fault them for not calling the cops.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

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.