The secret cell phone enforcer on my flight
#46
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Simple solution here.
"Sorry, I will comply with the crew of this flight, which you are not one. I'll also be filing a complaint regarding you spying on the contents of my screen.If you need anything else, please ring the call button and we'll have a FA address any concerns."
"Sorry, I will comply with the crew of this flight, which you are not one. I'll also be filing a complaint regarding you spying on the contents of my screen.If you need anything else, please ring the call button and we'll have a FA address any concerns."
#47
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No law was being violated. The use of electronics is allowed until they make the announcement which had not been made. An off-duty FA has no authority to issue requests that need to be followed. They were in uniform and representing their company and should be reported. Leave it to their management to determine if further action is needed.
#48
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If someone calls you on your cell while you're pumping gas, there's a risk the spark between two electrodes generated when the phone rings can ignite the gas vapor around the pump handle, causing an explosion. Especially if you keep your phone in your pants pocket. And yes, it has happened. It's a completely different issue from electronic interference with other equipment.
I mean, maybe if your phone was made in 1983, but not nowadays.
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I'll be a snitch over someone violating someone's basic human rights. Unless the OP was violating someone's personal life, liberty, or property, his seatmate should've minded their own business if they didn't want to get in trouble.
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If you believe that being asked by some random stranger with no authority about your cell phone is a matter of "basic human rights," you lead a profoundly sheltered existence.
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If someone calls you on your cell while you're pumping gas, there's a risk the spark between two electrodes generated when the phone rings can ignite the gas vapor around the pump handle, causing an explosion. Especially if you keep your phone in your pants pocket. And yes, it has happened. It's a completely different issue from electronic interference with other equipment.
#52
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Not even close to the same. Ill skip the obvious reasons, but will add that murdering/causing harm to someone is illegal. Using a cellphone is perfectly ok before the announcement to turn off your cellphones is made.
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This didn't sound like a "ask you kindly" situation. Although I do try to refrain from replying to rudeness with rudeness, the "passenger" was out of line. We are required to follow crew member instructions, none had been given so OP was in compliance with the rules and regulations. And to answer your question, yes, you have no "authority" to ask someone to stop commiting a crime. Moral obligation maybe.
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With the caveat that MythBusters in no way conducts scientific or statistically valid research
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#57
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For lack of any scientific study, I also read: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fuelish-pleasures/ and various other reports that support the findings of the Myth Busters. They may be more dramatic than a bunch of science geeks, but they are making a TV program for non-scientific types.
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Obviously if they are a FA they have some power over the flights they work. Getting rid of the bad seed is good for everyone.
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that one made me sick too-L1011 laughable
#60
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If someone calls you on your cell while you're pumping gas, there's a risk the spark between two electrodes generated when the phone rings can ignite the gas vapor around the pump handle, causing an explosion. Especially if you keep your phone in your pants pocket. And yes, it has happened. It's a completely different issue from electronic interference with other equipment.
But during intense cosmic ray events, like the one happening tonight at 1am in all time zones, keep all electronics away from your body altogether.
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Last edited by SeeBuyFly; Oct 7, 2018 at 2:16 pm