'Gross': Anger at image of airline passenger's hair draped down seat

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'Gross': Anger at image of airline passenger's hair draped down seat

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"Would this p*** you off?"

"Would this p*** you off?"Credit: Twitter

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!"

In the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the titular character's long hair is the key to her rescue.

But it was no fairy tale for a passenger on a flight who may have wanted their own rescue.

A photo posted on Twitter has gone viral and made news around the world.

The image from Twitter user Anthony, known as @Antman0528, shows the unidentified flyer's hair draped over the back of their seat and down past the seat tray.

Captioned: "Would this p... you off?", it appears that it does indeed irk a lot of commentators.

Thousands of comments roundly criticised the hairy flyer, with many calling it "gross" and "completely inconsiderate and unnecessary".

Other comments included some revenge: "I would quietly lower the tray, let her hair fall in and then close it up again."

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"Just sneeze into it a couple of times," was another comment.

Some sought a more middle ground: "Would definitely be annoying, but for people with long hair I understand why they do it, not sure what a compromise would be TBH, as long as they understand I might need to move or manipulate it sometimes we could reach an understanding."

It is not revealed which airline this occurred on or when it happened, but it's not the first time a pic of a passenger's hair draped over their seat has caused a sensation online.

Last year a video was shared online of another passenger in a similar position, but they took matters into their own hands by cutting their fellow traveller's hair, adding in chewing gum, and dropping it into coffee, although the footage has been accused of being staged.

Bad behaviour of passengers on planes has long been documented on the popular Instagram account "Passenger shaming", created by a former flight attendant.

Since travel resumed in the US after the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in bad behaviour by passengers on flights. Many of these incidents were related to the compulsory wearing of masks on board, which became a rule in May.

In some of the most high profile incidents, unruly passengers have been taped into their seats, while another faced a fine of more than $13,000 for refusing to wear a mask and blowing his nose into an airline blanket

The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said there had been 4385 cases of unruly passengers on board flights this year. The spate of incidents prompted Delta Air Lines to share a list of 600 banned passengers with the FAA and request other airlines do the same.

"A list of banned customers doesn't work as well if that customer can fly with another airline," the airline said in a statement.

with Stuff.co.nz

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