• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

What's with all the airplane fighting?

bigred

Penultimate Amazing
bigred
Joined
Jan 19, 2005
Messages
22,700
Location
USA
Another one: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/southwest-airlines-fists-fly-video/

Maybe they should start requiring a hefty deposit up front and if you get into any altercation of any kind, you lose the money.

As if I didn't hate flying enough, now apparently I need to wear a football helmet during the flight as a precaution against hotheaded losers who apparently are watching WAY too much "wrasslin" :rolleyes:
 
There's no screening for behavioral propriety. Airlines sell tickets to people who are insane and also to criminals.
 
Or maybe the airlines and their stupidities have reached the point where flying is so stressful that passengers can't control themselves. Friendly note: I do not fly at all. Though if we got back to 1970's style I almost certainly would!!! Planes should not be cattle cars for most fliers!!!!!!!
 
William Parcher said:
There's no screening for behavioral propriety. Airlines sell tickets to people who are insane and also to criminals.
Click to expand...

Wasn't there a study on rat showing that when you reduce the territory they have access to in cage, they get into fight more (ETA : "bahvioral sink" Calhoun 1962) ? Would not that be the same for human being in a enclosed box packed like sardine in a box ? And airliens make the seat smaller every years ?

ETA: just going by the wiki , counter intuitively "Psychologist Jonathan Freedman's experiment recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness, and general unpleasantness. He declared to have found no appreciable negative effects in 1975." but I have my doubt, I have seen temper flare much quicker in small room than in big halls. People can take space from what makes them angry.
 
Last edited:
Aepervius said:
Wasn't there a study on rat showing that when you reduce the territory they have access to in cage, they get into fight more ? Would not that be the same for human being in a enclosed box packed like sardine in a box ? And airliens make the seat smaller every years ?
Click to expand...
I think you are right. But also these nutcases fight in much larger open spaces as well. Again... the insane and the criminal. You don't need a sardine can to have them acting like savages.
 
I've witnessed a few fights on planes, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago. They got zero news coverage.
 
No video, no story.

What happens is that the straight-to-YouTube video causes the media to write a news story. The media forces themselves upon the witnesses and the airlines and gets a story - all because of the sudden public existence of the video. It all happens rapidly. Within hours.
 
A cup may have prevented a lady fistfight.

United passenger says she was forced to urinate in cup

WKYC said:
A United Airlines passenger says she was ordered back to her seat when trying to use the bathroom on board a plane. Nicole Harper said it happened a few weeks ago when she was traveling from Houston to Kansas City.

The nurse said she’s lived with an overactive bladder all her life. "I said I'm going to need to use the restroom or I'm going to need a cup."

She was given a cup because the fasten seatbelt sign was on.

Harper has filed a complaint with United Airlines and the Department of Transportation...
Click to expand...


http://www.wkyc.com/news/nation-now/united-passenger-says-she-was-forced-to-urinate-in-cup/438417851
 
fuelair said:
Or maybe the airlines and their stupidities have reached the point where flying is so stressful that passengers can't control themselves. Friendly note: I do not fly at all. Though if we got back to 1970's style I almost certainly would!!! Planes should not be cattle cars for most fliers!!!!!!!
Click to expand...

I have flown a total distance amounting to about twenty times around Earth. I have never seen a fight. I have never had a serious problem. I have had my baggage delayed two times. I have had my flight cancelled and have had to book another flight once.

Seriously ...

Hans
 
Jungle Jim said:
No where in the article does it say the woman urinated in a cup.
Click to expand...
The article title says that the woman says that. So it's a double - the article says it and the woman does too.

Also, nowhere is to be spelled as one word not two.
 
There was another airplane fistfight last week.

DailyMail said:
The All Nippon Airways passenger who started a brawl on a flight headed for Los Angeles Monday night may have been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, claims the retired Marine who fought the man.

Video filmed on the stationary plane at Narita International Airport shows the men, one wearing a bright red and white Hawaiian shirt, throwing punches at each other from their seats...
Click to expand...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4468974/Ex-Marine-fought-man-flight-says-PTSD.html
 
MRC_Hans said:
I have flown a total distance amounting to about twenty times around Earth. I have never seen a fight. I have never had a serious problem. I have had my baggage delayed two times. I have had my flight cancelled and have had to book another flight once.
Click to expand...

That depends a lot on where and when you're flying. Ever flown to Vegas on a weekend? I've been on weekend flights to Vegas where 80% of the passengers were drunk, and 50% of them stood up chatting for the entire flight. Under those conditions, fights are likely. On the way back you see the same people, now subdued and hung over, except for one or two jerks who are "still partying".
 
Why You’re Seeing So Many Airline Fight Videos These Days

Fortune said:
Another week, another airline fiasco.

Delta became the latest flier to become embroiled in controversy after Brian Schear, a customer who boarded a red-eye from Maui to Los Angeles with his family, uploaded a video to YouTube revealing their encounter with flight officials who demanded that his 2-year-old son give up his seat to another passenger...
Click to expand...


http://fortune.com/2017/05/05/airline-fight-videos-delta-united
 
Modified said:
That depends a lot on where and when you're flying. Ever flown to Vegas on a weekend? I've been on weekend flights to Vegas where 80% of the passengers were drunk, and 50% of them stood up chatting for the entire flight. Under those conditions, fights are likely. On the way back you see the same people, now subdued and hung over, except for one or two jerks who are "still partying".
Click to expand...

Vegas, no. Denmark to ... Bavaria, USA, China, Taiwan ... such stuff.

Business travellers, mostly,

Hans
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom