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Vile Dotard Curses Out Crying Baby On Southwest Airlines, Forcing Diversion

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 20, 2023November 13, 2023 65 Comments

a group of people sitting on a plane

A vile dotard became so enraged that a baby was crying on a Southwest Airlines flight that he tried to drown out it out…by cursing it out. Refusing to be silent, the plane was forced to divert.

Great Solution! Dotard Curses Out Crying Baby On Southwest Airlines

I’ve got video below, but I want to warn you at the outset that the language is crude and certainly NSFW. Indeed, the angry passenger unloads such a volley of expletives that sensitive ears should just skip the video altogether.

While video begins midway through the incident, it is very clear what started it: a baby continuing to cry.

@mjgrabowski

♬ original sound – bad_ideas_galore

“You’re yelling,” says one flight attendant says to the angry man.

“So is the baby!” the  man replies, while his spouse just puts her hand on her head in embarrassment.

The plane landed to offload the man, but he refused to get off the aircraft. That prompted everyone else to be offloaded, as it policy, in case removing the man turned violent.

Most have criticized the mans’s behavior, as I certainly do, but some have rushed to his defense:

Why should the rest of us have to be subjected to thw crappy behavior of other people’s kids?

Honestly, if a kid can’t behave on a flight, it doesn’t belong on it. Yravel is stressfull enough without having to to endure that kind of nerve grating noise.

— Armadillidium Vulgare (@Armadillidium45) April 18, 2023

Here’s my reply: this man tried to out-shout the baby. Why should the rest of us have to be subjected to his behavior? Babies will act like babies, but adults should act like adults. Travel is stressful enough without having to endure a crank acting like a baby and using foul lounge.

This vile pig should stay home if he cannot deal with babies crying. Guess what? That’s life. You’re on a Southwest Airlines flight. Deal with it, loser.

CONCLUSION

Admittedly, as a parent of two young children, this story makes my blood boil. This guy was a kid once too (perhaps his mother dropped him). His conduct is indefensible and while parents should make all reasonable efforts to keep their children quiet, a loud baby does not give license to an old man to be not only loud, but vile.

(image: @mjgrabowski/TikTok // H/T: View From The Wing)

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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65 Comments

  1. Stuart Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 9:56 am

    The look on the wife’s face is quite telling. This is not the first time. I feel horrible for her in some ways. I hope she gets him the help he needs. He is clearly suffering inside, not that this is an excuse.

    • Brandon Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 10:34 am

      Yeah, he was totally in the wrong for being upset over a crying baby for over 45 minutes. Why do some of you feel the need to always defend terrible parents?

      • Karen Reply
        April 20, 2023 at 10:40 am

        How would you have stopped the baby

        • Brandon Reply
          April 20, 2023 at 10:42 am

          Umm, without knowing more as to why it was crying, I don’t know. Pacifiers work. Milk works. There are a dozen ways to soothe a baby. Although, thanks for proving my point.

          • Karen
            April 20, 2023 at 10:46 am

            Didn’t defend terrible parenting and where is the evidence of them being terrible anyway. Point being sometimes none of the soothing options work. No matter how many you try. Especially during crazy chaotic episodes with Karens

          • Brandon
            April 20, 2023 at 10:53 am

            @karen, this is hilarious. She could have gone to the lav with her child. She *CHOSE* not to. THis is the definition of bad parenting. Making everyone else suffer for your decisions.

          • Karen
            April 20, 2023 at 10:56 am

            I didn’t know we had the chronological history of what the mother tried and didn’t though. We are just going off of the info we have, right?

          • Matthew Klint
            April 20, 2023 at 11:00 am

            @Karen: Right. But some just always assume the worst when it comes to babies.

          • Santastico
            April 20, 2023 at 1:12 pm

            @Brandon: how about pain? How do you stop that? How can a baby tell their parents if he/she is in pain? Do you know why I say that? Because I grew up with huge ear problems and apparently was in deep pain a lot as a baby. Yes, my parents took me specialist doctors and they figure out but I can imagine how many times as a baby I cried on airplanes simply because I had pain and the only way babies can tell anyone about that is crying.

          • vietri
            April 20, 2023 at 1:29 pm

            @San Yes, was just reading that it’s good to give babies and kids sips of water before and when flying as it helps loosen the eustachian tube. I guess it’s not instinctual for babies and really young kids to know how to pop their own ears with gum chewing, jaw movements, swallowing, etc

          • BoBBy
            April 21, 2023 at 11:40 am

            As a former parent, there are times nothing works. So unless you have had to deal with a kid that could have possibly just discovered that he had an ear infection because of pressure changes mid flight (happened to me and my wife once while traveling) please do not speak of what you do not know.

          • Belinda
            April 24, 2023 at 4:25 pm

            Has nothing to do with terrible parenting.The change in elevation hurts a child’s ears.Some more than others.The child may have been crying due to pain due to pressure in his ears.You cam alleviate that with milk a bottle or pacifier.Landing and stabilizing pressure you do.

        • Chi Hsuan Reply
          April 20, 2023 at 1:57 pm

          Duct tape? Morphine?

        • Cam Reply
          April 20, 2023 at 4:00 pm

          Its annoying of course, they’re a baby its not controllable. Cabin pressure maybe hurting their ears etc. Tolerance is at all time low anymore. Patience has left some people completely. If you cant accept bad days happening? Stay home. If your plane develops mechanical problems while in air, are you going to upset with Crew? Or wait patiently for further instructions? Humility has left many many people. Sad

      • Matthew Klint Reply
        April 20, 2023 at 10:42 am

        @Brandon, Why do some people not realize that babies are different than adults? Sometimes, despite the best efforts of parents, babies cry. And cry hard. It is rarely a sign of bad parenting when they are under two years old.

        • Brandon Reply
          April 20, 2023 at 10:44 am

          Yes, I have never been around babies before. That’s really the retort? Dude, try harder. There are also parents that don’t care to attempt to soothe their child because “muh village” or something. Unlike the people I know that will head to the lavatory and do everything they can to help make the flight not miserable for everyone else.

          • Matthew Klint
            April 20, 2023 at 10:52 am

            I’m trying to decide if you’re just a vile pig or actually a troll?

            In either case, you’re pathetic. Thanks for your click.

          • John
            April 20, 2023 at 11:43 am

            I have a feeling you’d complain because you couldn’t get into the lavatory.

  2. Lukas Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 10:24 am

    Such a perfect picture, haha.

    Do we know that’s his wife next to him?

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 12:58 pm

      not 100% on wife or girlfriend or prisoner but she’s in the end of the video with him talking to airport security and the cops

  3. WTF Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 10:31 am

    Why do people think babies have an on and off button??? Nature cannot be stopped

  4. Brandon Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 10:35 am

    @matt Are you just copying Ben here lately?

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 10:41 am

      Ben didn’t write about this before I wrote this story…so no. Good for him for publishing it first.

      • Interested Reader Reply
        April 20, 2023 at 10:50 am

        Perhaps let ben do ben and let matt do matt. The great Tim Dunn said as much recently during cross comments between blogs

  5. Heather Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 10:55 am

    I feel sorry for the wife. If he acts like that in public, imagine how he behaves in private.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 10:57 am

      Yep.

    • WTF Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 11:17 am

      And the flight attendants. Earning every penny. Taser lobby to follow.

  6. jns Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 11:25 am

    He should be banned from flying. I was on a red eye JetBlue flight two days ago where a baby was crying multiple times. Was it the best, no. Was it a real problem, no. By the way, the crew on my flight, which was an hour late taking off, was really good. While boarding I was able to talk to the pilot and he told me the reasons for the delay.

  7. John Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 11:45 am

    Ban him from flying? He’d sue. And win. Then maybe get a weekend show on MSNBC. Good job, Matthew, calling this creep a vile pig. You’re spot on.

    • Maddow Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 12:23 pm

      Weekdays too

  8. lol Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 11:47 am

    lol @ at the end when he’s with security and police still going on and on

  9. Dave Edwards Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 12:04 pm

    One thing we know is that a majority of the Trans community would have tried to do to shut it up. If a drag show dance didn’t work, they would have tried putting something in its mouth. Assuming they didn’t self mutilate themselves already.

    Or do they wait until the kid is 6? 8? 16? What age exactly is it they believe they are old enough to make sexual decisions for themselves?

  10. Ba Derf Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 12:11 pm

    The pane was forced to divert?
    I totally hate it when I drop my croissant!

  11. Billy Bob Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 12:17 pm

    I watched a couple allow their two-year-old to go wild on a recent flight: hitting the seats around him, yelling, jumping around. Not once did either of them even attempt any discipline or diversion to spare their fellow passengers. I think some millennials have ZERO parenting skills. Those two certainly did. The dad ignored the whole thing and the mother just held onto the kids legs. He was standing up on her seat the whole flight.
    Maybe this guy has finally seen enough of millennials raising the next generation of budding narcissists.

  12. Sal Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    He didn’t do anything wrong until he refused to get off the plane. Free Him.

  13. vietri Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    We are talking about infants, not the ‘terrible twos/threes’, which can and do occur. Plus some members of all generations have bad parenting skills..boomers, Gen Z, Gen X..can’t blame it all on millennials. There was a vyoung Gen Z parent in front me in line the other night at checkout whose three year old was crying as he didn’t get the toy he wanted. The father calmly responded a few times then when the crying didn’t stop he screamed at the top of his lungs to stop crying in the boys face. Entire store heard and you guessed it, kid didn’t stop crying. So there’s levels to “discipline or diversion”. If anything, this WN passenger looks like the narcissist. The reaction of his companion is pretty telling. She looks traumatized. I would be, too.

  14. Bandmeeting Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    No, he’s a lout.

  15. vietri Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    “You’re on a Southwest Airlines flight. Deal with it, loser.” lol

    Nevertheless, I hope this isn’t a dig to those of us who fly WN as needed 😉

  16. Jan Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 1:49 pm

    It’s a baby. babies cry. Deal with it like an adult and don’t turn into an actual man-baby. I imagine their parents are also desperate to shut their baby up. Adults that aren’t man-babies don’t cause flight diversions.

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 2:10 pm

      +1

  17. Mr Marcus Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    Yet another person who loses the “I’m not getting off of this plane!” argument. Where would we be without the simple minds of the world….

  18. Chi Hsuan Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    Jokes aside, the guy is just vocalizing what we’re all thinking when we’re stuck on a plane with some screaming brat.

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm

      Some do agree with you as reported here but as to soyboy we can probably retire as an insult. It’s basically as tired as ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘election denier’ at this point.

      • Chi Hsuan Reply
        April 20, 2023 at 2:10 pm

        I find it rather funny so we will not be retiring it anytime soon, soyboy.

        • vietri Reply
          April 20, 2023 at 2:16 pm

          I don’t consume soy..causes estrogen issues for males, but ok, whatever makes you happy

  19. Mark Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm

    Wottatwat…….

  20. Gammyjill Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 2:27 pm

    Um…where was the crew? Why weren’t the FA’s monitoring the situation? I don’t know if the captain should have been out there, but there seemed to be no authority on site. Why wasn’t the seat belt sign on; certainly keeping passengers seated would have ratcheted down the commotion somewhat.

    I do know that trying to restrain the guy probably wouldn’t have worked, but surely something could have been done. It looked like a free-for-all. Again, where was the authority?

  21. WTF Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    “If this was a black baby”. WTF does this even mean??

    Black parents would be more willing to use discipline on their baby? Or white people would be complaining?

    I don’t see how bringing up race helped his argument. I have never once heard a baby crying and said to myself “let me check what race that baby is first.

    WTF indeed.

    • WTF Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 3:07 pm

      Nvm, best friend just informed me of the Delta pax who slapped a two year old with choice epithets. Must have been referring to that but still, weird flex when you’re screaming about any baby

  22. Cam Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    If this man is the babies Dad? He needs to Man up and take care of his baby too. If your Man enough to impregnate your GF/Wife. ? Your certainly Man enough to care for your offspring.

  23. Maugrim Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    He’s making more noise than the baby lol

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 9:48 pm

      100%

  24. Wayne Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 7:20 pm

    The view from the terminal is clear. The guy is wearing sweatpants. He’s on the no fly list

  25. Rich Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    I just have to say that I am so charmed by your headlines about a “lout” and a “vile dotard”. I hope to see you resurrect more obscure terms of opprobrium.

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 9:47 pm

      You must be new. Don’t worry, he will.

  26. Travelgirl Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    We probably all have stories of screaming and/or out of control kids on planes. I wish airlines would have a “helpful tips for parents flying with kids” page on their website. If someone hasn’t told parents that swallowing fluids helps open the eustachian tubes or to carry plenty of snacks or toys to keep kids occupied, how are they to know what to do?

    • vietri Reply
      April 20, 2023 at 10:58 pm

      True, marketing and communication need improvements. Imagine what the DOT & FAA could really do but at the same time it’s bad timing to enhance travel and to educate folks to make it easier for people >> too many people are traveling, airline schedules have been reduced, FA’s are unhappy about being given lines with credit hours above norms already, and we aren’t even into summer. It remains to be seen if summer travel demand breaks the systems(s) yet again. All signs point to possible but miracles happen.

  27. dee Reply
    April 20, 2023 at 10:49 pm

    Brandon, I agree–some parents have no clue about what to do.NO paci or toy or bottle or??? And some even play with the child to the point of agitating them !! And then think it is cute…

  28. Matt Reply
    April 21, 2023 at 12:34 am

    @Matt – you’d do well to avoid sinking to this guy’s level, don’t use words like pig or insinuate he’d been dropped as a child. 99% or better if people know that babies aren’t crying to annoy people and that their parents want nothing more than to quiet the child. Calling this guy names only invites more narrative with him and people like him

    • Matt Reply
      April 21, 2023 at 12:38 am

      I’ll also say that my father in law did something similar to this to a young kid at a movie, totally got in his face about kicking the back of his chair. I was stunned and embarrassed and upset and angered by his awful behavior. There is no place for this kind of behavior.

  29. Substitute Steve Reply
    April 21, 2023 at 10:05 am

    On a Air NZ direct IAH to AKL in a Skycouch seat. Over 15 hours with a crying baby about a row or two back. I did not sleep even with noise cancelling because the baby was close and loud. I get the guys point, it’s so very miserable. But….the woman was maybe moving to NZ, bringing the baby to grandparents for a visit…who knows. Once we landed at 6am, with no sleep, and no hotel to check into yet, we explored the city. It was exciting and fun, and I totally forgot about the baby and lack of sleep. Be nice, except to the people who can control how nice or not nice they are, like Matt! 😛

  30. Asa George Reply
    April 21, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    Birds gonna fly,babies gonna cry,…just the way it is.This man’s reaction is appalling,”baby is getting all the attention”,nope,he decided it’s all about him.How much did he cost the airline?or inconvenience,upset other passengers?

  31. vietri Reply
    April 21, 2023 at 10:11 pm

    I always thought being an FA and a good one would really be fun but with things like this idk how they do it. Superhuman or something.

  32. Dave James Reply
    April 22, 2023 at 9:42 am

    Come on Matthew, the man’s behaviour may have been unacceptable, no was utterly unacceptable but don’t lower yourself to refer to him as a ‘vile pig’. Pigs have feelings too and as a farmer’s son, I’m really quite fond of some of them.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      April 22, 2023 at 10:02 am

      With apologies to the decent pigs in this country who make such delicious bacon and ham.

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