It appears that a woman flying JetBlue stole another passenger’s charging cable, claimed she had simply borrowed it (without asking) and also that maybe she had just found it and was trying to reconnect it with its owner?
The reported thief has made her social media accounts private, which is significant because she had quite the following.
Passengers had all deplaned the aircraft and it appears they’d been required to leave their belongings on board. She may have seen the cable as she came forward a few rows and taken it with her.
In video, the blonde passenger is confronted by a man asking if she’d taken his charging cable. She says that she did, and he wants it back.
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Chargers are pretty non-descript. Borrowing permanently is something I think many people feel comfortable with. Most call it stealing. If you want to protect your charger in this situation, it should probably look like this, it’ll be really obvious when somebody takes and uses it and there’s no way two people on the same flight just happened to have the same one:
This woman’s charger during a 6+ hour red eye flight. pic.twitter.com/Ks8LyoRKjz
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 6, 2024
The most common inflight theft is from the overhead bin especially on overnight flights where people are sleeping. I don’t think I’ve heard of charging cable theft before.
(HT: Live and Let’s Fly)
Typical B6 behavior.
Sorry, charging cables are disposable equipment, like pens. You buy some, you lose some, you find some, if you don’t want yours wandering off you need to keep it in your immediate control.
(Did not watch video.)
Charging cable and charger theft has taken off in the last 15 -20 years. And if you willingly loan your cable or chargers out to someone else, don’t be surprised if you end up dealing with a petty thief who fails to return the borrowed instruments or even does a shady swap and “return” of a faulty or cheap substitute product.
For whatever reasons, I have run into this issue mostly when flying KLM flights out of the UK and ending up with overnight misconnections at AMS.
Seriously, Christopher Raehl? Seriously? What other stuff is it OK to steal? How about your wallet? Cell phone? Car?
@Christopher – Taking something that you know doesn’t belong to you is called stealing. The fact that she’s stealing a $10 item isn’t relevant except to determine severity of the theft.
@Christopher – He obviously is a supporter of cackles. Both are low lifes and disgusting.
It looks like she has way too much cabin luggage so she is possibly stealing space from another passenger or two or three. Maybe theft is her normal action. While a charger and cable are not too much money, the theft of them could cause the victim the loss of use of his or her phone during a crucial time. If the phone is being used for in flight entertainment, there could be that loss, too. I’m glad she was caught and ended up returning the items. Of course, being TikTok, the video could be a skit.
Lock her up!
If only Jerry springer was still here he could stage a fight
She self identifies as an honest person so it is just not politically correct to call her a thief. The owner of the charging cable needs DEI and sensitivity training and may face a defamation suit.