A couch passenger plugged their power cord into the seat back on a redeye flight this week and it began flashing red, green and blue rave-style, with the cord draped across the seatback area so – and indeed the cabin – is blasted by rapidly changing colors like a strobe light.
In a Reddit thread about this video, people aren’t amused, they’re infuriated. This is a redeye flight. People are trying to sleep. Who does this?
- Call the flight attendant immediately. Several people said they’d hit the call button or ask crew to shut it down.
- Seizure risk? I’m skeptical but people are concerned about seizures, migraines, and photosensitivity.
- A better approach. If cabin crew won’t help, offer the passenger your cable to use for the flight.
My favorite responses were “Too bad it doesn’t have an OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ sound effect to go along with it. Then it would really be special.” (To which someone responds, “It’s more of a DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE DOUCHE sound effect.”) “The party never stops in seat 34 F!!!” and “What the temu is this?”
Bizarrely enough, a passenger who taped this exact power cord on a flight two and a half years ago showed up in the thread.
This woman’s charger during a 6+ hour red eye flight. pic.twitter.com/Ks8LyoRKjz
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The real miracle in both of these cases isn’t that one passenger brought a rolling disco to a darkened cabin, it’s that nobody onboard unplugged it and used it to do something destructive.
Option 4, rip cable from wall.
Seizure/ migraine risk is real. I fall into that category
There is a segment of the population in America that has felt embodied to be be rude the last few years. Draw your own conclussions..
The FAs should have absolutely pulled the plug on that immediately. Did they?
Use. An. Eye. Mask.
(Also: Use. Noise-canceling. Earbuds.)
A couch passenger? Was this on Air New Zealand?
While severely annoying this is certainly no worse than bringing small children into a premium cabin.
@Christian — Recently ‘enjoyed’ an 11-hour redeye next to a coughing/crying baby… in “Business” class. I just hope that kiddo does well at his work meeting the next day, ya know, because, everyone in that cabin is doing ‘business’…or why else would they book that class of service. It’s in the name! “Business”!!
Why I refuse to do a redeye in coach. Domestic first is bad enough.
1990, back when points could actually get you seats for a reasonable amount of points, I would always book out family vacations for the wife and me in Business class.
If asked why, I guess the answer is “that is my business. ”
The kids were always will behaved.