Posted on 05/28/2025 11:59:43 AM PDT by Morgana
But I'm not like you.
Now, let's examine some facts. We'll start with this:
Crampton is said to have started throwing punches at the child just before takeoff after he allegedly said she was too fat to sit in a seat.
Interesting. It is a proven fact, supported by among other things my own personal observations, that some airline passengers are indeed too fat to fit in a seat. Don't even TRY to deny that. Being seated next to one of those individuals is very unpleasant. Don't even TRY to deny that, either.
So ... requesting (and then providing) pictures serves to assess the validity of the kid's complaint.
Second, being called "Miss Piggy" in no way justifies this conduct:
Witnesses told officers that she punched the unknown boy and then hit him with a water bottle before slamming his head into an airplane window,
Did you read the article? Do you enjoy assaulting and battering children?
I figured a step mom, girl friend or maybe aunt or other relative.
If it was a step mom or GF then she should have said something to the dad, or better yet dad should have nipped it in the bud with the kid. That leaves me to think this is another family member unless the guy she’s dating is a total looser.
“So, you’re of the opinion that if the woman was fat, the kid had a right to call her out on it?”
You know a lot here seem to think that! The woman was just minding her own business and going to her seat when some snot nose kid called her “fat” for pure spite yet that is okay with some here.
Some here are overlooking the facts that she was NOT bothering this child until he, the child called her, the adult names.
In our day any child to do that would have gotten their ass whipped on that plane by the parents, and all of us would have cheered it. Now we are agreeing with the child that the woman was fat?
You all this is so wrong the woman was minding her own business has the child should have done.
Agree!
I’m inclined to go with total loser. Pushing the kids face into the window indicates he was sitting closest to the window. That puts Miss Piggy in the center seat...so she can be next to loser.
There is discipline.
When that fails there is punishment.
What is described in the article is assault/battery.
That last one is a criminal act and has nothing in common with the first two.
“Yup. I was a 5 YO in Minnesota in 1958 and said “Hi fatty” to a large woman. My mother heard me and wham!! On the butt. I learned the meaning of the word apology that day too.
Oh my heavens!!
I’m shocked your mom did not slap you into this day 5/28/2025
She was minding her own business!
That snot nose kid needs a butt whooping like in the old days.
How dare you intimate that I enjoy assaulting children! That’s NOT the point. The kid’s a jerk. Certainly the woman overreacted, but the kid was completely out of line. And as an aside, no one except perhaps first class passengers, is comfortable on an airplane. The airlines deliberately cram as many seats as is physically possible, in order to increase their revenue. They should provide seats roomy enough to fit the average male, which should more than accommodate the average female, both of which, btw, are statistically, in the US, overweight.
” in the center seat...so she can be next to loser.”
Thing about that is on today’s airlines? You never know who you are going to be seated by unless you book months in advance.
I’ve read a lot of stories on DM about people who are asked to “switch seats” by moms with toddlers so they may sit with their kids. They usually single women who made reservations months in advance to get the seat they wanted only to get dirty looks from the moms when they won’t give up that seat.
Why should they? They paid for it, and dearly I might add.
So mom and the kids are seated all over the plane. Mom is upset and the kids act terrible.
This is just another reason I don’t fly.
Or the adult could exercise some self control.
There’s a thought.
The answer, of course, is easily. No problem at all. Deal with it.
The kid’s a jerk.
Perhaps.
Certainly the woman overreacted,
That's one description of assault and battery on a minor. It's not really the description I would use ...
And then we have whining about the size of airline seats. Sweetie, we're not talking about normal sized people. We're talking about the bipedal blobs who barely fit in TWO seats. I'm sure you've seen them.
“The airlines deliberately cram as many seats as is physically possible, in order to increase their revenue. They should provide seats roomy enough to fit the average male, which should more than accommodate the average female, both of which, btw, are statistically, in the US, overweight.”
amen
Now you know why I choose Amtrak over the airlines. Plus on Amtrak there is NO MIDDLE SEAT!!!
https://www.amtrak.com/onboard-the-train-seating-accommodations
That's pretty much me. Just FYI, so you know who and what you're lecturing.
Tell it!!
Cry harder Miss Piggy.
Not such tough guy, now, are ya?
She’ll make new friends, in the Big House.
😂😂
“That’s pretty much me. Just FYI, so you know who and what you’re lecturing.”
I’d venture to say it’s probably about 97% of the FReepers coming and going.
It’s still hurtful though to say that to a female. I can see that this woman was upset. In her teens she was probably skinny just like the rest of us now she looks at food and gains weight, JUST LIKE THE REST OF US.
I’m sure she has a mirror and she knows she’s over weight she does not need a snot nose kid telling her that is a very rude, mean way.
Well she's well raised.
On pearl millet and bovine growth hormones.
And then she assaults and batters a child ...
Be very careful where you go with this line of argumentation.
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