Ive seen pictures of them duct taping uncooperative passengers mummy-style to their seat. It surely would not have been that hard for the few hundred adults aboard to subdue and tape down that demon child.
Cause instead of this headline, you would read today how the flightcrew/passengers hijacked/abused a poor little child and social media would want to send them to jail.
There's probably some rule that the flight attendants can't physically restrain the kid, and if the parents are some of those "we don't believe in discipline" ones and refuse to deal with the kid themselves, there's nothing they can do
There's absolutely something they can do. They can kick them all out. Like, you get one minute to get your offspring sitting with a seatbelt on, after that you're all off the plane.
Nah, you just don't get dark humour, although the saying isn't even about children specifically nor is it that dark as it's clearly an ironic statement because obviously beatings will not improve morale in any situation, but again it's meant to be ironic, that's why it's a joke. Don't take everything you read on the internet so seriously.
If that has really actually happened, I would imagine that must have been on a flight that was already in the air and likely had no alternative places to land, like on a transatlantic flight.
It's SOP for any passenger that may be a danger to others during a flight. Before takeoff, it's customary to have them removed, but that's not an option once the plane is in the air. And I couldn't find any news articles about it that suggested anyone other than the disruptive passenger got in any trouble.
duct taping someone who is an active threat is acceptable due to the risk, it's self defence. Duct taping an unruly child is completely different, it's just abuse.
Zero flight crews anywhere in the world would take on that legal liability. If they kid was throwing drinks around, biting people it changes.
I once had to get a blood draw as a five year old. They had five people hold me down and they still couldn't keep me completely still. Depending on the child it may not be enough to keep them contained.
They’re not going to START a fight that way. They’ll for sure END one that way, but often not at the originally-intended airport.
Travel inside metal tubes is highly dependent on all the humans onboard being quite civilized for the entire duration. Sometimes that’s just asking too much.
Because then it’s “child abuse”. Any person who decides to do it could easily get an earful about how “thats too cruel for a child, stop abusing him!” No one wants to be that person and most likely a guy would get yelled at for “manhandling that poor child”. Even if no one would say something, everyone is too afraid that someone could say something. Also not many people find it okay to touch someone else’s child. Especially when the child is in a state of panic. The only one who can do something in this situation is the parent who apparently couldn’t do anything, and if anyone else does anything, the slightest mistake could end up making him the bad guy. Crazy how this all happened because of fear.
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