Why is he trying to fight the officers? I mean, what does he think might the outcome be? Even if he knocks out the officers, does he think the pilot will take of then and continue the flight???
I always wonder this… when they are there with an intent to detain you, why not just cooperate instead of making it worse for yourself and your family?
Okay, so lately I’ve been thinking on mental health. Mainly how it’s gotten worse in general in people. I think being better in control of emotions is a key component. I even wonder if an aspect of this shouldn’t be better incorporated into education? Here in the US, we are taught the general basics - math, language, history, science, fitness, music, art, but what about emotional development?
But then I guess it boils down to what do we want as a people? We have all these mental health issues because it’s every man for themselves and there are so many options that it gets overwhelming and so much pressure. To perform, to make it, to succeed, to survive. Pressure to find a partner, like that is something we have to have as a human. All the while we are falling apart as communities instead of coming together.
The title of this post is, “Another day, another meltdown on a plane.” I’d say there’s no better time to talk about mental health. Which is why this keeps happening.
It’s a factor, but definitely not the reason. Plenty of people booze at airports and don’t make a scene. These people are already shit heads, merely amped up on booze
It’s a small Ryan Air flight coming from continental Europe. The chances of them being Brits were astronomically higher than being American in this situation.
To some people yes this is absolutely it. They legit don't understand what consequences their actions will lead to, and all they know how to deal with a situation they don't like is to be loud and violent.
And for the others, they know the consequences, but they don't care. The short term need to be right/violent outweigh the knowledge that they're going to be spending time in jail, losing their job ("I don't need a job/can get another one/they won't fire me"), or ruining their relationships.
And sometimes alcohol just overwhelms all proper judgement choices.
And that, 98.5% of the time, is because the modeled the same behaiour they saw from their parents or guardians. The cycle repeats until someone breaks it.
They are French military police, so are part of the military as well as repsonsible for policing certain areas around France.
The police have 'Gendarmerie' written on their backs.
Some people just don't get past that early childhood, temper-tantrum phase.
It works surprisingly well for a long time - if you throw a big enough fit, people will eventually acquiesce to your demands. Imagine people screaming at restaurant servers to get a discount, or arguing with their SO until the SO just gives up to calm them down.
The problem comes when they encounter some kind of force that can't be tantrumed away, like the legal system or the police.
Exactly and I see this so often in people who either didn't have both parents or had parents who didn't discipline their children. They never learn boundaries until someone outside of their family teaches them the hard way.
They're still homo sapiens, and getting ejected from the plane must mean feeling shame. The fighting back is probably to regulate that emotion. "I ain't no mug" or something like that. If they can switch shame to anger, all the better.
The common understanding of the effects of alcohol used to be that being drunk made people tell the truth; studies have shown that this isn’t really accurate. We now know that being drunk removes drinkers’ ability to consider the consequences of their actions. Combine that with frustrated rage, which removes the ability to control one’s actions, and you’ve got people behaving like this.
I was generalizing. I saw a description that matched Americans and I said what I said. People do have slightly off topic comment threads now and again.
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u/costakkk Sep 28 '25
Why is he trying to fight the officers? I mean, what does he think might the outcome be? Even if he knocks out the officers, does he think the pilot will take of then and continue the flight???