First of all: As I always caution when witnessing a video of an altercation on an airplane, make sure to wait for all the facts to be out before making an assessment on the situation. That’s just good blogging, been on my family crest since the dawn of time:

But overall I’m going to take the dude’s side. I mean yeah he’s a dick and he definitely went a bit too gleefully from “I’m not shouting” mode to “I’m being so impolite aren’t I fat ass?” plus he definitely directly challenged her to turn the plane around in the cuntiest of ways. And yes he also should know after recent videos that raising a stink on a plane like this is going to be a touchy subject in the airline community. But don’t you have to have slightly thicker skin and slightly better diplomatic skills than this lady if you’re going to work in this field? Airlines already treat us all like cattle with dollar signs branded onto our haunches, you can’t do any customer service when you’re locked on the plane or even find a way to subdue this dude and keep him from being trouble without ruining the trips of however many hundred people are on this plane? It’s a fucking 20 hour flight some of these folks may have mentally prepared days for and now they have to go to New Zealand and sit around for God knows how long and miss whatever commitments because the air waitress couldn’t deal with a mildly annoyed person in a middle seat for two minutes. The guy’s an asshole but as a flight attendant you should be THE expert at dealing with drunk idiots with a smile on your face and getting a plane there on time. Throwing your hands up and fucking everyone over just because you can is a gigantic dick move.

On the plus side for the flight attendant, this has to be the first time the mom move of “if you guys don’t cut this out, I’m turning this ____ around” wasn’t just a hollow threat. That moral victory alone definitely gets this chick a graphic during Women With Cankles History Month.