This Former Flight Attendant Did Something Extreme About Passengers Who Behave Badly On Planes

Oh, does he have to, mom?

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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.

There are flights from hell.

There are people from hell, too.

They get on planes and decide to behave in ways that drive you beyond your limits of tolerance.

What, though, can you do about it?

Yes, you can complain to a Flight Attendant, who may be reluctant or even powerless to stop certain passenger behaviors.

Someone sticking their bare feet on your armrest from the seat behind you, for example.

All too often, however, you try and politely say something or just bear it without even grinning.

One former Flight Attendant, however, decided to do something a little more radical.

Shawn Kathleen initially thought she’d write a blog about those beings who have no place being on a plane.

The problem was that her stories were so painful, so damning of the human race that many people just didn’t believe it.

So she created the Passenger Shaming Instagram account for the whole world to contribute visual evidence of in-flight horror.

Just look at one of its glories.

And if that isn’t bad enough for you, how about a sublime attempt at mid-flight personal grooming? (See below.)

Or this mess left at the end of a flight?

Somehow, Kathleen’s Instagram account struck a chord with so many flyers who just cannot bear the experience, or whose experience was ruined by the thoughtless.

She now has more than 524,000 followers. Some of whom, I’m guessing, wish there was another way of getting around the world.

With some of the images, there’s a little wit tossed in. There is also — let’s be honest — some gratuitous venting.

People, though, do watch porn on planes and change their baby’s diapers on the dinner trays — leaving the soiled ones in drink cups for Flight Attendants to take away.

And then there’s the ever-thoughtful people who drag a huge case onto a plane and marvel in stunned surprise that it won’t fit in the overhead bin.

Perhaps attempting to shame your fellow passengers is the best chance you have.

Then again, I fear too many of them will feel proud to be featured on Instagram.

After all, horrible behavior on a plane generally has its roots in excessive self-regard.

These are the very people who’d surely believe that all publicity is good publicity.