Plane passenger stages temper tantrum by using neighbor's seat as footrest: 'People are going mad'

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Plane passenger stages temper tantrum by using neighbor's seat as footrest: 'People are going mad'
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A female passenger is being accused of a “pedi crime” after using her fellow flyer’s seat as a footrest on a Qatar Airways flight, as seen in an appalling video taking off online. Fly-witnesses said the female passenger became perturbed after the traveler in front of her reclined her seat on the plane, which was headed from Doha to Moscow, East2West News reported.

However, others claimed that the passenger, believed to be Russian, had been denied an upgrade and decided to protest by kicking her feet up. The clip shows the woman, who’s clad in a green top and jeans, resting her feet on the seat of the woman in front, who is forced to crouch down as she works on her laptop.Remote learning is not for the weak — here's how a day of it went thanks to Mamdani's no-snow day verdictFellow passengers and air employees repeatedly implored her to put her feet down, but to no avail.“They tried to persuade her, tried and tried,” commented one observer. “They tried to persuade her to move her legs, she doesn’t want to, she wants to fly like this. People are going mad.”“This is business class,” snarked one man, while a woman lamented, “This can only happen in Russia.” The victim also weighed in on her in-flight plight, declaring, “As the saying goes, you can take a person out of the dirt, but the dirt doesn’t come out of the person.” The clip concluded with an air hostess crouched down and explaining to the woman that she needed to remove her kicks from the seat back.passenger proved even luxury carriers weren’t safe from pedi crimes after allegedly exposing his bare feet to fellow flyers — even touching his seatmate’s chair with them.First victims in Maine plane crash ID'd as pilot, attorney wife of prominent Texas law firm founderKyle Cooke reveals boundary Amanda Batula set years before their breakup

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