Passenger Arguments
 

What are some of the worst 'in-transit' arguements you've witnessed (or even been invovled in)?

I've only ever seen one, LHR-SIN an elderly english couple began arguing during the night. The woman let the man have it, complaining about how he never has sex with her and how the only reason he was with her was for the cooking and cleaning. It lasted over an hour, and by the end of it, she had pretty much divorced him.

Suprisingly, the FA kept serving her alcohol (despite being intoxicated) and didn't comment about the fact that she was swearing her lungs out - I was 7 rows back and could hear it over my movie.

Never witnessed any violence though, which is suprising given the shortage of overhead storage on many flights.

P.S. I know there have been many similar threads, but I can never get enough of reading them :p

I once witnessed one grown, apparently intelligent man call another grown man a "turkey" on a flight out of BOS (over bin space, naturally). My wife has seen several instances of passengers playing the race card on each other (claiming that their fellow pax was hogging the armrest, etc., and that the reason must be racial), usually on flights leaving LAX for some reason--a few of these resulted in passengers being deplaned.

Haven't seen any violence either, but I saw a minor spat on a CO ERJ a couple of years ago.

Self-important and nattily-dressed middle aged man boards, removes his jacket, folds it lengthwise and carefully places it in the overhead, taking up the entire length of the bin. He then, of course, closes the bin. It's a full flight, though, and a casually dressed younger man opens the bin, flips the top half of the jacket over the bottom half and tosses his carryon in.

Sharp dresser goes apoplectic, stands, and yells "Hey, what are you doing? That's my jacket!" Mr. Casual turns and says, er, casually, "So get yer own f**king plane."

Natty makes a big show of refolding and replacing his jacket in the bin, all the while staring daggers at the glib newcomer :D