@ChicagoBlue . . . Your thoughts?
Are words needed?
Listen to the language, understand where they’re going and why, and you realize you’re dealing with a level of delusion and social retardation that boggles the sane mind.
As for what to do about it...
It’s all talk in this video. If the seatbelt sign is ON (which I’m sure the FAs have called for) and someone gets up, then commands and instructions need to be given. From there, you have something actionable. If there is ANY physical altercation, then there are NUMEROUS CRAPPY JAILS between Texarse and DC!
While I can’t disclose Security Info, we have thresholds that create actions. You don’t want to become the guy who triggers those thresholds. Ruins your day AND your bank balance...and that’s before talk about the FEDERAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT that will be filed with the FBI and follow you around for life.
I live behind a bulletproof door so I can get the aircraft on the ground from 35,000 feet in under 10 minutes. That’s not a long time for the realization of your stupid cabin actions to sink in. Once those throttles come back and we deviate from our flight plan, the Feds want answers. “Joe Bloggs” is the answer, and if that’s your name, your life just changed irrevocably.
Since 9/11, the rules changed and there’s a strict “Don’t fuck around!” policy wrt aviation and esp airborne threats or actions.
That looks like 737 with a Sky interior, but maybe American Airlines, because we don’t have seat back screens anymore due to free streaming from an onboard database, so I don’t think it’s anyone I know upfront.
From the look and sound of the pax, it might as well be the short bus with square wheels (Americanism!).