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14th August 2024
11:14am BST
The parents of a toddler are being ridiculed online after videos surfaced of their child disrupting several rows of passengers on a long-haul flight from Germany to the US.
The short clip, which was posted to Reddit, shows the child standing on top of a tray table, pulling and pushing the chair in front of them, and crying and screaming at the top of their lungs.
In the clip, which a passenger captured, she can be seen jumping up and down on the table attached to the chair in front of her.
Other passengers on the flight described how the child was left to ‘run wild’ throughout the whole duration of the 8-hour journey, and that in several occasions when her parents tried to stop her, she shouted in their face and continued causing a fuss.
As a result, the chair belonging to the man in front of the toddler starts to shake while the table looks as though it might break under her weight.
Despite the man’s attempts to ignore her, the child causes further disruption by placing both her hands on his headrest too.
Worst journey to ever get on. What would you do if a child did this for most of your 8 hour long flight? #flight #Aviation pic.twitter.com/88G1MNi6VN
— AVIATION SECURITY (@AVSECNG) February 7, 2024
The clip ends with the little girl turning around to face a woman who appears to be her mother, and shouting in her face.
The posting of the video sparked a long thread of responses from people on the public forum, mostly expressing shock that parents would allow their child to behave in such a way towards other people.
One user simply stated: “I would feel like a failed parent if my kids were doing this and I was just straight up allowing it.”
Another wrote: “I’m pretty non-confrontational but even I would stand up and say something.”
One critic made the point that ‘child-free sections’ should be implemented on planes.
According to Shane Townley, who spoke to The Mirror about his experience, the child’s tantrum began when the plane’s WiFi didn’t work on her parent’s iPad.
Apparently, it was this inability to watch Peppa Pig that sparked the lengthy outburst.
