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[–] 4 points 38 minutes ago

WTF, OP? I had to find an archive to get the rest of the text, and there was a lot more to the story. As usual, United has fully lived down to its abysmally low standards.

For anyone else who has zero intentions of paying for a NBC subscription for one article, here's an archive link. There are known problems with the site, but I could not find another archive that had the content. Use at your own discretion:

https://archive.ph/xUswb

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  • [–] 12 points 3 hours ago (10 children)

    Anyone who got past the paywall know what protocol was violated? From the information available, I'm sincerely unsure of what they could have done. Were they supposed to go up the aisle asking someone else to sit next to the masturbator? Were they supposed to swap one of them to one of the flight attendant seats? Can they even detain the guy after landing? I legitimately don't know what they're supposed to do in this situation, other than provide information for the victim to press charges

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  • [–] 7 points 2 hours ago* (9 children)

    Public masturbation is illegal. The protocol is probably to inform the commander and law enforcement and ask the person to stop, and restraining him if he does not comply.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Yeah I suspect the "let him leave" wasn't down to United in this case, if law enforcement doesn't want to pick him up at deboarding they can't do much. Hopefully he gets charged, but it'd require the police to detain him on touchdown.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    There is no reason they need to detain you to charge you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    Yeah that was my point, sorry if I expressed it badly. That he'll probably be charged, but detainment if warranted would have come down to the police picking him up, related to a criminal charge and independent of a civil case by United.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago* (1 child)

    Restraining him is almost definitely not something the flight crew should attempt. Flight crew are not trained for this and could get injured. It could also easily escalate the situation and the last thing you want is a fight on board while in air. That could cause danger to the plane or other passengers. Asking him to stop and detaining him after landing would probably be the protocol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Well, that’s probably why they let him leave, nobody wants to touch that guy with a ten foot pole, let alone restrain him.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    I don’t think this reads like an onion.

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  • [+] -30 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    What’s wrong with this? She should mind her own business!

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