A woman was caught on video snatching a man’s Apple phone charger on a plane – and commenters claim she never intended to give it back.
The man who owns the charger filmed the encounter as he approached the woman to ask if she had taken it, which she confirms she did.
He responds asking why she took the charger; the woman tells him to ‘chill the f*** out’ and she took it because ‘nobody was on the flight’.
He then says: ‘You can’t take things without asking. It doesn’t make any sense.’
Another woman intervened asking him to sit down to avoid getting kicked off the plane.
Another passenger also gets involved saying: ‘You’re being ridiculous. She said she was gonna give it back.’
To which the man responded: ‘No, you’re being ridiculous. She stole something without asking.’
He was handed back the charger when she pulled it from out of her bag and said that she was only giving it back because she was caught and ‘everyone else saw you.’
Many commenters referred to the scenario as ‘gaslighting’, one said: ‘the evidence is in her bag, and she’s gaslighting him.’
‘nah she’s trying to act like it’s not a big deal because she’s on the wrong side of the argument,’ said another.
Many also believed that the location of the charger proved that the woman had no intention of returning the device to its rightful owner.
‘She has it zipped up inside her bag. She wasn’t planning on giving it back,’ said a commenter.
In a second video, uploaded by the same creator, he explains the context and situation in the video of the encounter.
In this he explains he and his wife were on a flight that was delayed three times, and due to the delays, the passengers were allowed off the flight for a period of time due to the unforeseen length of the delays.
He explains that he left his charger on the flight, as many people left small items, and was approached a few minutes after deplaning by another passenger.
‘[They] said, “Hey listen just wanted to let you know I’m sitting across from you to your left, and there’s a girl that got off your flight that actually stopped at your seat, unplugged your charger, rolled it up and put it in her bag,’ he said.
He goes on to address people saying the woman may have been attempting to give it back, to which he says she could have given it to a flight attendant or been more apologetic when asked to return it.
He also says her attitude when asked to return it is the only reason that he posted the video and pleaded for viewers to consider that one of the flight attendants offered for authorities to be called which he declined in order to not further delay the flight.
‘She wasn’t tryna do a good deed for those of you who thinks she was,’ he said.
Comments were generally in support of the man, saying she shouldn’t have touched the charger and had no intentions of returning it.
Others, however, also said that people should listen to her point of view before believing one side of a story.
He added: ‘Doesn’t matter if you’re on my side or against me. This is what happened, this is the truth.’