By Kristy Puchko | Twitter | October 24, 2016 |
By Kristy Puchko | Twitter | October 24, 2016 |
Perhaps there is no better place to complain about bizarre plane incidents than on Twitter. No, seriously. Because whether it’s a creepy doll, a friendly duck, or a predatory groper, there’s little you can do but tweet your feels. That’s the unfortunate lesson professional lullabyist Ariana Lenarsky learned when a stranger felt her up on a flight this weekend.
Here’s her story.
Some guy grabbed & stroked my calf (??) as I walked by on the plane, so I took his picture. Not gonna post it, but I hope he's freaked out.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
Anyway. We don't land for an hour and a half. Anything else I need to do here? Tag the airline? Tweet the photo?
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
It's like a real-time Choose Your Own Adventure for how to deal with harassment.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
I am now going to ask the flight attendants what they plan to do when we land.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
They told the captain and are filing a report with the airline. Local authorities will meet the plane when we land.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
I feel depressed.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
@hopelarson I feel safe because he's way at the front of the plane, but I don't know what I should be doing at this moment.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
Police took him off the plane. I'm still here & they're taking my & another woman's report. The legal term for how he grabbed me is battery.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
He tried to kiss the other woman. She doesn't want to press charges bc since it happened in the sky, the FBI would have to get involved.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
If I want to press charges, I'd have to fly back to Austin on my dime, since it's Austin PD's jurisdiction. I don't want to do that.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
Police said they would "give him a talking to"& "it's not the crime of the century." True! I'm going to tweet his picture now since it's nbd
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
You can't grab women on a plane, guy. You can't do it. Hope you get the help you need. pic.twitter.com/5A5nGqdx87
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
That was exhausting, ridiculous, and embarrassing. Thank you for the support. I will probably formulate more thoughts about it this week.
— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) October 23, 2016
I had no idea that if someone commits a crime on an airplane it’s this impossible to press charges because of jurisdiction, and apparently cops being like, “What’s the big deal LOL!?”
Our sympathy goes out to Lenarsky. Our collective scowling goes out to the criminal asswad, who never learned the concept of tea-drinking/consent nor the kindergarten lesson of keep your hands to yourself.
Kristy Puchko can’t even sometimes.