A woman claiming to be a lawyer sparked a chaotic shouting match onboard a JetBlue flight after skipping the line to deplane, leading to a viral confrontation filled with insults, profanity, and arguments over IQ level.
Lawyer Skips Deplaning Line, Sparks Ugly Mid-Cabin Brawl
The incident, captured on video and widely shared on TikTok, began when the woman moved toward the front of the aircraft during deplaning, ignoring the common courtesy that passengers in front rows exit first. Fellow travelers did not take kindly to the breach in etiquette and began loudly confronting her in the aisle.
One man told her to “wait for the people in front of you to get off!” Her response: “Shut your mouth.”
Another chimed in with “let the people go,” to which she retorted, “You’re all whining for no reason… just get up when you want to… just deal with it, people, my G*d.”
As tensions escalated, a man began loudly chanting “Karen,” prompting the woman to spin around and shout, “You’re the real Karen.”
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From Entitled to Combative
What might have been a brief flare-up became something else entirely. The woman turned toward another passenger filming the argument and asked if they had permission to record her. The man next to the filmer responded, “It’s public.” That was met with, “Shut the f*** up.”
A man with a southern accent rebuked her for the profanity. Her response? “Given your accent, I can tell you’ve said the F-bomb.” Then she doubled down, mocking his use of the word “ain’t” and calling it a sign of low IQ.
Another woman, clearly fed up, cut in to say, “I use ‘ain’t’ and I’m in a doctoral program.” The lawyer, glasses now sliding down her face, fired back: “Oh wow, that’s a big deal” and announced she was an attorney.
Eventually, someone accused her of being racist. She corrected them: “It’s xenophobic.” Of course.
As the brawl reached its peak, she threatened to “meet outside” to show a fellow passenger her “bar card,” a comment that earned a quick comeback: “You’ll lose your bar card once this goes viral.”
CONCLUSION
This wasn’t a safety issue. This wasn’t even a classic passenger meltdown. This was a textbook example of what happens when arrogance meets confrontation at 30,000 feet and no one backs down. The lawyer’s behavior was rude, inflammatory, and wildly unprofessional. But it’s also true that the group pile-on (with chants and insults flying from all sides) didn’t help.
Still, none of it would have happened if she had just waited her turn to get off the plane like everyone else…I can’t stand the grifters who feel the need to jump up and run down the aisle, often pushing aside those who are in their way.
Common courtesy isn’t that hard. And if you’re going to flash your “bar card” in defense of boorish behavior, maybe think twice before proving to the world you shouldn’t have one.
screen grab: @itsme_brianli / TikTok
Silly Karen, tricks are for kids.
LOL
Someone saying they are a lawyer is not going to impress me in this kind of situation, apparently she thought it would work in her favor.
Anytime someone attempts to impress/one-up by saying, “I am a [fill in profession,” the correct response is, “OK, I’ll use simple words.” [OK, I’ll talk slower,” etc.]
You should seriously just rename your blog something like “Your Daily Bad Behavior Incident” blog. Because we all need to know about every one who behaves like a child while traveling. Such enjoyable traveling information. lol
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You know, Matthew likes to post about coffee. I hate coffee. So, not only do I not read those posts, I don’t reply to them. I always find those who read a post they know they won’t like, then reply about how the post shouldn’t exist perplexing.
Before every makes this political, I’d like to be the first to say: 100% chance this lady voted for Trump
I’m a lawyer, and nothing offends me more when a person holds out their pedigree, i.e., I’m a lawyer, doctor, etc. Nothing special there!
Thank you!
This woman is not really a lawyer. A real lawyer would know how to create a lot of billable hours for the mayhem.
If her response was “I’m really sorry, I have a tight connection” no one would care and everyone would say “good luck”. Who cares if it is true or not. Just bad tactics. Ideally lawyers think about and deploy better tactics.
That said, in a country in which we do not board a plane in any logical order, not sure why we care at all about having a logical order in which to alight from a plane.
Lawyers are the worst!
Right, Klint?
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Keep on reporting these incidents, seeing how stupid and arrogant people can be is interesting and entertaining in its own way.
I wonder what’s the real ID of this “karen”
With him leading the pack on bad behavior people are going to follow and see what they can get away with as well.
She was in a hurry to get back to work because there’s lots of suburban real-estate conveyancing for her to get finished, I’m sure.
Trash.
“I use ‘ain’t’ and I’m in a doctoral program.”
Hopefully he’s not studying to be a medical doctor.
On our recent flight a young couple did this as well. Guess where we saw them next…At the baggage claim. Not too bright.
People do tend to get their overhead (2-3-4 bags) very slowly and seem to not know what to do to disembark from the plane… They seem totally in a daze and clueless….
Some people are rude. You’ve been together at 40,000ft. What’s a few minutes more?. If you miss your connection? Not your fault. Let Airline figure out how to get you to your destination
One thing pushing people out of the way versus having your bag ready and jumping up as soon as last ding signifies ready to deplane. If you have small bag under seat and are ready then go as far as possible until someone gets in aisle.
I’ve run into this behavior more than once. And it’s just unacceptable. Entitlement, it seems, knows no bounds. And shame- which was once used to ensure good manners – has definitely gone out of style. More’s the pity. But she got some publicity. And I’m sure she’ll be found out. I hope she runs her own legal firm, because that’s the type of publicity any other firm would be loathe to tolerate from one of their employees.
I agree that it’s dumb to flash a bar card when acting rude. It invites a complaint to the bar. She won’t lose it, but it will undermine her effectiveness in the future. I wouldn’t want an attorney whose this stupid.