What Would you Do?
So lots of us are getting on planes in the next few days and weeks.
Say this guy was sitting next to you.
[WARNING: obscene language in video]
What would you do?
Los
So lots of us are getting on planes in the next few days and weeks.
Say this guy was sitting next to you.
[WARNING: obscene language in video]
What would you do?
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
blog about it.
Well, it’s more painful to hear all the cheesy business dudes saying “Come on now” than they guy yelling, so I’d try to tell those guys to back down and stop freaking him out.
wow… those guys kept their cool. i am amazed at their calmness… he even had his arm around him… wow. i would have been freaking out.
get him a water.
that’s intense!
around the 3 minute mark i swear the guy restraining crazy man and crazy man notice the guy filming.
LOS,
I am flying to catch up with my family on Christmas Day morning…thanks for scaring the CRAPOLA out of me…why was the guy freaking out?
Zak
Give him his seat bottom flotation device and throw him out.
Have you ever read the kids book about “If you give a pig a pancake” where you run down the list of cause and effects to your actions.
If you give the man some water he might spill it in your lap
Or he might actually drink it
If he drinks it then he’ll have to use the restroom
If he has to use the restroom then so do the bodyguards
If the bodyguards have to escort him then ackward is only the beginning of the situation at hand
If 3 grown men could possibly find a way to fit in one of those steel and plastic pergatory boxes then you might end up wet after all
Which will remind you that this whole mess started because you tried to give the man some water.
my first impression is the possibility of some sort of mental illness. Not sure. I think the guys would be more willing to be forceful in there restraining of him if it was just a freak out session, they seem to know him or whatever….I noticed his hands were bound also. Interesting. I could be totally wrong.
I would freak out if two whites guys bound my hands together on a plane.
The other passengers are so calm.
Seriously………I wonder if the other passangers got free drinks!?!?!?
“Help Me” sad but alittle funny.
I would tell him that someone WILL shoot him if he doesn’t pull himself together.
What struck me was the end shot when the camera rested on the woman sitting there. Her expression was interesting.
I’d love to know the story behind this.
I felt sorry for him and more so for the guys sitting with him. They did great I think!
I would be praying hard for this guy to calm down and for everyone stuck on that plane to stay calm.
Sad state of the world we live in isn’t it.
But thanks for getting everyone suficiently freaked out before they fly for the holidays.
Give him a water with a sedative/sleeping pill!
Thanks for the reminder that the way I handle a situation influences how the people around me handle that same situation. It looked to me like the man knew his anxiety could get him killed and that added to his problems. I can’t say that I would have had the patience to handle that the way those people did. I don’t know what happened before the video, but it looks like most of the people on the plane were pretty calm. I applaud whoever managed to keep that calm. It certainly could have gone another way and there could have been a plane full of people staring at a dead man, which would have been more traumatic for everyone involved.
I couldn’t see this video. Here at work they’ve got all this shut down.
But – from reading the comments, I felt led to make my own.
Having been medically treated for rage management issues, I have a great deal of sympathy for those in a state of rage. But the biggest thing I learned from those episodes is that I wanted to be left the **** alone. Anyone tried to “calm me down”, I’d be letting loose on them. Because of these experiences, I believe I need to stay away until the person is calm. Once they reach a mellow state, then I (untrained) can intervene.
Having said that, I applaud those who do step in and work to resolve the situation. They have more guts than I do.
Perhaps Abigail is right – knock the guy out and allow life to proceed.
My favorite thing about that video is the woman in the black who is sitting there the whole time reading her “American Way” on flight magazine like there isn’t a crazy guy behind her freaking out.
that’s sad. especially now that the poor guy is being broadcast around the world via internet. there was a time when you could freak out and it only went as far as the people that were present and paying attention. now a freak out can haunt you for years courtesy of some guy with a camera phone and access to youtube.
I fly about 4 times a month right now, so I think about this kind of stuff often, especially after working for the Dept. of Homeland Security for a year. It’s incredibly serious and has to be handled in a similar manner. The business guys did a great job of holding him in place – had he gotten up, he probably would have charged the cockpit, and then an air marshal would have shot him (my brother-in-law worked as a DHS Air Marshal for a couple of years).
I hate that the guy was in such distress, but restraining one can save the lives of 250 or 300. We have no idea if this would have been a situation where it actually did save lives – but the actions are worth it.
My last flight, I had a lady ask me to move to sit by her because she was actually afraid of another guy (who was drunk and in a bad mood but for some reason the airline let him fly anyway) on the flight. Finally, my answer his, put him on the floor of the cabin with 3 or 4 guys restraining him – make sure he can breathe just fine, but get him to the back of the plane.
Wow that’s crazy! I’m not sure what I’d do. As I was watching this though a scene from that movie Airplane came to mind.
http://cjalvarado.com/?p=334
1. push pause my ipod
2. pray for him
3. push play on my ipod
4. probably go to a foo fighters tune (Hero, or Pretender maybe)
5. turn up volume a few clicks
6. post a blog about the experience
Make me wonder where the flight crew was also….it seemed that there was no one from the flight crew assisting the matter either. I could be wrong.
Chad…haha. Sounds about right to me.
That looks like an international flight, so if I were someone in authority on that flight, I’d go the route of a sedative/tranquilizer, if it were available. A shot in the leg, just like the movies.
Otherwise it would be a very long plane ride. Those guys can only hold him for so long. Not sure what the backstory is though, so it’s hard to say.
So if you click over to the YouTube page, it explains that this guy had a panic attack on an Air Canada flight to London.
Obviously this had been going on for awhile because the passengers seemed to have gotten used to it. Those guys do seem to know him, but my question is, if they expected him to react in such a manner (or even knew it was a possibility), then why didn’t they have some sedatives or something.
Crazy. And that would make for an even longer flight than my worst ever: a nine-hour Warsaw-New York LOT Polish Airlines flight during which I was seated in the middle of eight unaccompanied, Polish-American minors who had spent the summer with their grandparents on the Baltic Sea coast and who switched between Polish and English mid-sentence without realizing what they were doing. There were times I wanted someone to restrain some of them…
I would have been curled up in a fetal position sucking my thumb
pulled this up on my computer:
http://boortz.com/mp3/archive/countdown.swf
AHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
-cD
i’d have gone to the bathroom and locked myself in. until we landed.
I’d tell the captain to play “Snakes On A Plane.”
I actually had a similar, but not as drastic, situation a few months ago flying home from a wedding back east. The woman behind me was convinced the two men sitting next to her were going to highjack the plane and kill us all. I heard things like this the whole flight: “I don’t care if you’re going to kill us all just let me call my husband first and tell him I love him.”; “Please just tell me how you’re going to do it so I’m ready when it happens.”; “I know you’re lying to me, you’re not really a pastor, you’re going to kill me.” And when we were on the ground she was on the phone with her husband asking “If they take me away when I get off this plane will you call around and find out where I am and come visit me?” (Referring to a mental hospital I believe) Poor thing was on a ton of drugs and wasn’t completely there. Not to mention she was totally freaked out and was convinced she was going to die.