A video started making the rounds online a day or two ago. It shows an airline passenger nightmare: the little kid behind you not only kicking your seat, but the lil’ monsters mother not only doing nothing to stop that behavior, she’s aggressive in preventing anyone else from stopping it.
A number of commenters are using the video to discuss this or that: race relations, the lack of fathers, the lack of discipline, the power and arrogance of the matriarchy, etc. All valid issues to discuss, but there’s one little issue: that ain’t an airplane. Jetliners don’t have slab-sided walls, nor do they have support columns. It’s a set, and they’re actors.
I’m assuming that this is a training video for flight attendants: things to look out for, situations to de-escalate, how to handle bad children, annoyed (justifiably) passengers and aggressively bad parents. Or, perhaps, some other sort of training video… mention is made of “join a mothers group.” So perhaps it’s a video for some sort of parenting group, to show the consequences of crappy parenting.
Shrug.
Nope. It’s a “comedy” video, though nothing about it seemed all that funny; it just doesn’t seem to be played for laughs, but for realism. The “Beverly Hills Comedy Team” has a number of airliner-based vids using the same set. The full length vid is on Facebook: