A video of a heated altercation on a JetBlue flight has gone viral as a man confronts a fellow woman passenger asking her whether she took his phone charger. The woman calmly says she took the charger and was going to give it back. As the man got enraged and told the woman that taking other’s thing without permission is called stealing, the woman asked him to chill the f**k down as she was going to return the charger anyway.
“Is it stealing if you give it back?” the woman asked.
“Yes, it’s stealing! You’re only giving it back because I caught you! Everyone else saw you, that’s why!” the man said and it did not end there as they took their fight on TikTok presenting their sides of the story.
As the video posted by the man went viral now showing the woman as an unscrupulous thief, Vanessa, the woman, shared her side of the story in which the passengers were asked to deboard the plane due to technical issues. She was sitting towards the back and was one of the last to leave. She said she saw the charger on the floor, and picked it up. She claimed she told a stewardess about the chargers but she did not take it and so she put in inside her bag.
Once they re-boarded the plane, Vanessa claimed that she told the owner, Eddie Orellano, that his charger was with her. At that point, the man was flustered having lost the charger and people told him they saw a blonde woman unplugging it from the socket under his seat. Vanessa, however, denied that she took it out of the plug.
“I was really stressed out, exhausted, worried about my cat, out of breath. Eight hours at the airport only to be recorded and yelled at,” the woman said explaining why she wanted to first settle down at her seat and then give the charger back.
The woman in her video said the incident happened a year ago and she wasn’t going to issue a statement but now the situation has been blown out of proportion after the man’s video went viral.