Passenger almost freaks out when child kicks the seat

She was on a flight from heaven – straight to hell.

A passenger on a Southwest flight from Hawaii to the mainland found herself in a nightmare because a child wouldn’t stop kicking the back of her seat – and the mother allegedly refused to take the matter seriously.

And while the internet is now full of horror stories from high altitudes that spread after the events unfolded, this annoyed pilot needed immediate moral support.

So she logged into the in-flight Wi-Fi service and posted an urgent appeal to Southwest Airlines’ board on Reddit, hoping to find a receptive ear and helpful advice, as People first reported.

“I’m currently on a flight from Hawaii to Las Vegas and a kid behind me keeps kicking my seat,” Redditor Silverlace22 alerted the room.

“His clueless father sits next to him, doing nothing. I don’t want to make a scene, but after four hours I’m ready to go full steam ahead, Karen. I’ve said ‘ouch’ a few times, but to no avail.

“Why do they put only a half-inch of foam between a person’s lower back and their foot?” she wondered aloud.

Users quickly provided moral support to the upset traveler and urged her to immediately contact the crew for help.

“Press the flight attendant button and tell them in your best adult words what you said here,” demanded a virtual Good Samaritan.

“Many times I’ve turned around and just said straight to the kid, ‘Hey buddy, you’re kicking my seat and it hurts. Can you move your legs out of there? Thanks!’ It usually works fine,” said another.

Other users suggested hilarious methods to force the child to behave better.

“‘See that blue button above my seat? That’s the ejection button for YOUR seat. If you keep kicking me, I’ll be forced to press it and you’ll be ejected from the plane,'” one armchair warrior suggested as a line that might work.

However, some quickly accused the passenger of “passive-aggressive behavior,” which, as the woman made clear, was not the case.

“Should have added that I already talked to Dad, who said OK and we’ll move on. So involving the flight attendant is the only option. I was just hoping someone had a creative alternative. Wild parenting is no joke,” she complained.

In hopeless cases in the cabin, it’s good to be cautious, travel expert and consultant Nicole Campoy Jackson of Fora Travel previously told People – you never know who will lose their nerve in a confrontation.

“This is a difficult thing because parents are already on high alert and often feel protective when flying with their children,” she told the outlet. “Turning around now, already angry and hurling accusations, is absolutely not going to help anyone have a better flight.”

Instead, she advocated a cautious approach that involves speaking calmly and directly with the parents – and only involving a flight attendant if the problem persists.

Recently, a mother made headlines when she confronted two fellow passengers about their badly behaved child who wouldn’t stop blowing saliva-filled raspberries from the seat in front of them.

“After the third time, my husband said very sternly to the parents, ‘If you don’t get your child under control, I will do it for you,'” Shayla Monnier said of her flight from Atlanta to Denver earlier this year.

When the abusive mother replied that people without children would not understand, Monnier’s husband responded with the ultimate answer:

“‘We have five children and six grandchildren and I promise you, not one of them would do such a thing,'” he is said to have said.

Inappropriate behavior at airports and on airplanes is commonplace, typically among adults behaving like children.

In Taiwan, an adult traveler was recently filmed throwing a chair and attacking an employee at Kinmen Airport for unknown reasons.

Further away, a United Airlines passenger wearing a “Scarface” T-shirt bit into a flight attendant’s uniform, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Newark.

Meanwhile, in Washington DC, an obnoxious economy class passenger was recently banned from flying for allegedly following a mother and her daughter to the bathroom before illegally boarding the family’s flight and plopping down next to them.

In 2022, the Federal Aviation Administration implemented a permanent zero-tolerance policy for bad behavior.

Penalties can include counseling, fines, warnings and criminal prosecution – not to mention civil penalties, which the agency says can be as high as $37,000 per violation.