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

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by nocturne@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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/

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

For the record, if that happens to you, stand up and be a public nuisance.

"EXCUSE ME FLIGHT ATTENDANT BUT, can I please have a plastic spray shield to protect myself while this man masturbates midflight?"

You can also involve the other passengers directly, if they don't react to your obvious public call for help (above) by asking if anyone else sees this guy flogging the dolphin in Seat 33B?

The more euphemisms you can use, the better!

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not a woman so there is probably some bit of deep ingrained fear that I'm lacking here, but this was pretty much my first thought when I heard about this.

Maybe public shaming was this guy's kink, but I think being loud is the right move in this situation. There should have been pictures and videos of this guy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

As a woman, yeah I'd struggle not to freeze up after being ignored. The big thing is that someone doing that is probably crazy and gives no fucks as to consequences and the people in charge have displayed a level of apathy that I wouldn't know how far it goes. He might attack and they might not stop him.