Creepy man on flight WWYD

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Anonymous wrote:He was probably just scrolling social media. Newsflash: don’t post photos of yourself on social media.

It was not social media. It was his camera roll, and I am not ashamed that I was being nosy at all! He was a freaking weirdo.

He's probably being scammed by some online "friend" pretending to by the "woman" in the photos, and he's sending "her" money.

Or he's fallen in love with some OnlyFans woman and she sends him private photos.

I have a flight coming up and I was thinking to check out Nabokov's "Lolita" from the library and read that on the flight. Would you turn me in?

Trying to equate a novel, whether it's "Lolita" or anything else, with a guy's lighted screen held up in view of others, is a very strained attempt to make this about "freedom."

You know those two things aren't the same at all, unless maybe you're reading some titillatingly illustrated version of "Lolita" and holding it up nice and high so others can't miss the pictures.

And yes, I've read and analyzed "Lolita" so don't bother to come at me like you're some snotty lit professor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was on a flight yesterday and an older man diagonally in front of me was scrolling through his phone and it caught my eye because a picture popped up of a young woman in a bikini posing in a way that I knew it wasn't his daughter. Well, admittedly I was nosy and continued to watch as he flipped through a ton of grainy photos of this young woman, some other girls (appeared of legal age just decades younger) and pics of the backsides of others in restaurants/bars (looked like someone took those pics w/o knowledge). He was zooming in on some of the backsides, etc. It just felt... off. Would you have said anything to a flight attendant, etc? Not sure what they could have even done. I get that this likely was nothing but if it was a situation like sx trafficking person, who would you report it to?

Sorry but not illegal.

I am a Karen, but this circumstance is not one that merits interference .

You should have watched a movie or read a book to take your mind off it.

(I was once seated next to a guy on a plane who spread graphic crime scene photos out on his tray. He said he was a homicide detective and apologized, but I think he did it on purpose (for weird shock value)?

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I could see this as a DCUM topic.

weird lady on my flight looking between seats trying to see what's on my phone...WWYD

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At least he was doing it in the (semi) privacy of his phone vs a public library computer?

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"Hey, you may not realize this but you're holding your phone so others can see the screen. Please angle it down." And leave it at that. But I'd at least have said that much. Or better yet, go talk to a flight attendant privately and ask the attendant to say this without identifying you as the person who told them. Many flight attendants would absolutely do this for a passenger. (And some would not. But I'd rather at least ask an attendant say it than give this guy any idea I was the one seeing his cruddy screen shots)

The fact some images were grainy might indicate these are photos he took himself. I agree it's gross, disrespectful, and incredibly oblivious that he was ogling this stuff in a public setting, OP. You're not overreacting but there was little you or a flight attendant could have done short of saying something like what I said above. And I'll go there: I'd have kept an eye on him if he seemed to be seated next to a solo female traveler of any age. I'd be immediately thinking of several recent cases where men were caught groping women and teens during flights. (Go on, DCUM porn-lovers and defenders of male grossness, call me a pearl-clutcher. Hope your sister, daughter, wife or mom isn't seated next to a perv on their next flights!)

Oh good lord. Anyone can look at anything they want on their phone, as long as it's not actually illegal. Stay in your lane.

-a woman

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Good eyesight OP! I would only be able to see a laptop screen from that far away.

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Last I checked, it is not illegal to be weird.

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I think he is certainly involved with trafficking and general objectifying females. However, unless there are laws/regulations against that while on plane then you are powerless.

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Literally all
Men do this. No, I wouldn’t say anything.

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Tasteless, but not reportable, unfortunately.

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Why would you put the flight attendant into the position to police this man’s phone? The plane staff is there to help provide a safe flight not to act as the morality police.

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Anonymous wrote:Tasteless, but not reportable, unfortunately.

^^^ This.

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It's gross but not illegal if he's just keeping the phone to himself basically. I was on an Amtrak once where a man was looking at porn magazines in a very flagrant way (like holding it up and it was something like Penthouse where even the front and back covers were inappropriate) and the conductor basically told him this is a family-friendly space and maybe to cover it up (like read inside another magazine). The man grumbled something about the 1st amendment but basically complied.

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The fact some images were grainy might indicate these are photos he took himself.

This isn't 2003. What cameras nowadays take grainy photos?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The fact some images were grainy might indicate these are photos he took himself.

This isn't 2003. What cameras nowadays take grainy photos?

Ones that are zoomed in....