Video shows Southwest crew and staff confronting a passenger during a loud onboard meltdown—an argument that other travelers in the clip tie to jealousy over his wife talking to another passenger. As he’s removed, he’s still clutching food, and the situation escalates into a food‑throwing moment that has the cabin reacting in real time.
The plane is on the ground, and a man wearing a tight gray Under Armour shirt and a white baseball cap is in the aisle, angry, and repeatedly addressing people filming him. A flight attendant tries to control the situation, and a ground employee moves in and positions himself between the passenger and others.
Eventually the food gets thrown (“French fries anyone?”). And he was upset because his wife was talking to another man next to her. He became threatening, other passengers started chiming in, and he was told he’d have to deplane – but he refused – and he threw his food at them. People were laughing at him, making him angrier.
Warning that this video has a bunch of ‘not safe for work’ (or even ‘work from home’) language.
- Don’t f- point your finger at me, m-f.
- Nutjob, you’re running your f- mouth, m-f
- Put your f- phone down, you dbag.
And all that before we get to,
Don’t make me throw my food at you.
So this guy was upset because apparently his wife was talking to another man in the seat next to her do he got irate & was threatening them! People started chiming in because he was told to deplane,but wouldn’t so he throws his food at them! They’re laughing at him & he’s pissed pic.twitter.com/UYEzMu1Pxi
— Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) January 13, 2026
The internet broadly wants him banned “from flying” (not just from Southwest!) and finds him insecure and jealous. Plenty of people speculate on steroids and uncontrolled rage. Several people try to pin a political identity on him… take your guess. At the same time, it’s possible that some other passengers were antagonizing him, winding him up, though he’s the one responsible for his ultimate behavior.
I think my favorite reaction (besides “Male Karen”) was,
If he wasn’t so cheap he could of bought a seat next to his wife!
For a couple more weeks Southwest still has open seating, rather than paid seat assignments! So presumably they were among the last to board. It wasn’t that he failed to pay for a seat next to his wife. He didn’t pay for Early Bird check-in, or they changed flights within 24 hours of departure. Odds on he also didn’t check in right at 24 hours prior to departure, got a high C boarding number, and there just weren’t seats left together. Maybe she didn’t want to sit near him!
We’ve seen plenty of other passengers throwing food before – for instance a year ago a Delta customer ditched their meal tray in the aisle forcing everyone to step through trash, and another man dumped food in the aisle instead of waiting for the flight attendant to pick up their tray.
‘Roid rage or shirt cut oxygen off from his brain.
Not acceptable behavior.
Think the wife should file for divorce.
“take your guess” … I’m not sure it really matters. Like, you can be liberal, conservative, agnostic, fine, but, if you’re gonna disrupt the entire flight, over apparent marital insecurity, that’s no bueno.
The passengers recording and making comments should also have to deplane. Antagonizing the guy doesn’t help the situation.
ICE is hiring…
Welcome to The Jerry Springer Show….
Slow news day?
@David PDX — $50,000 bonus after five years… that is… if future administrations don’t abolish ICE, have Nuremburg-like trials for humans rights abuses, etc… “Just following orders…” Hmm.
Micro penis on full display. Dude looks like a wife beater.
@1990 – “if future administrations don’t abolish ICE, have Nuremburg-like trials for humans rights abuses”. It is possible, Democrats / liberals are very autocratic in their actions. Just look at Covid and all their demands to be followed or a person was ruined. I know, you think the current president is the dictator, blah, blah.
Stay classy, San Diego.
@michael mainello let me remind you, probably not for the first time, that your savior the orange authoritarian was the president during COVID. Remember, he wanted to inject you with bleach and bright lights and then famously said if the US did less testing there would be fewer reported cases. how does that MAGA bootleather taste?
Beam me up, Scotty. Earth has changed since we last visited. The language used should get him decked!
Bet he thinks he’s an alpha male. I’ve never met s guy who thought he was who wasn’t a dbag or whose confidence to ability ratio wasn’t crazy high.
Dude has a lot of ummm… small equipment energy. He’s sure dealing with a lot of insecurity about something.
Tell me again why airlines shouldn’t have a Permanently Banned From Flying list that they share?
@Michael Mainello
If you babies could’ve just sat your asses home for two weeks COVID would no longer be a thing. Seeing as how we’re STILL dealing with it, what “Liberal autocracy” prevented you plague rats from spreading your filth?
@Michael Mainello — As we all may have different definitions of a word like ‘autocratic,’ I wanted to look it up, and share it here: “Autocratic describes a system of rule or leadership where one person holds absolute power, making decisions without input from others, often enforced by force, and characterized by total control, no accountability, and suppression of dissent, seen in dictatorships, absolute monarchies, and sometimes in business or family settings as domineering behavior. Autocratic rule prioritizes the leader’s will, potentially enabling quick, decisive action but risking poor decisions, low morale, and lack of innovation due to limited perspective, contrasting sharply with democratic ideals.” (Yeah, those silly masks were ‘tyranny’… thank goodness we’re ‘free’ now. /s)
I hope the douchebag’s wife switched to a one-way ticket…. SEE YA!
Dear lady, I hope this is your wake-up call. You aren’t imagining things. Your husband is not in the right at all. There is not a reading in which e is. You are in danger. He does not love you, he wants to control you. Sometimes having somebody focus intently on you feels like love, especially if you are raised in a family where you felt ignored. He just wants to control you. He will lose this shit if you can’t. You will lose everything if you don’t leave. There are men out there who will truly love you. Do not feel sorry for him. You can encourage him to get help, but do that after you’ve left.
Charges should be filed against jerks like this EVERY time. Until they have real consequences, they will keep doing crap like this.
I get it, dude was out of line BUT, and let me preface this by saying I also get it that the passengers were frustrated, etc., BUT other passengers egging on the sitch ain’t cool either. Dude’s having a bad day and peeps got to film it and splash it all over? The dude didn’t rape or murder. Didn’t get physical except to throw a few fries at a dude taunting him with a camera and equally bad attitude. Is this what we’ve all become is the ‘Gotcha Police’ with our cameras at the ready for anyone or anything having the slightest problems? Crazy world we live in, Crazy!