In the old days, joining the “Mile High Club” meant having a sexual encounter with another passenger in the airplane restroom (back then those restrooms actually were large enough for two to tango).
But these days, when flights are crowded and airlines (but not the flight tickets) are cheap, people apparently are finding other ways to get it on on board.
Elly Shariat, a publicist based in West Hollywood, wrote as @shariatPR on Instagram about her encounter this week with a fellow passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight, a post that attracted lots of responses. The five-hour flight apparently was from Las Vegas, which Shariat also works from, to Philadelphia.
“Uhh @SouthwestAir we have an issue. I’ve spent this entire flight sitting next to a guy who has his iPad open on the tray table, watching porn, WITHOUT using earphones or anything, and twice now his body has started shaking in the throes of his orgasmic bliss. I’m so disgusted” reads the post from Shariat, whose LinkedIn profile lists her Shariat PR firm as based in West Hollywood.
Shariat says she paid for access to WiFi on the plane to alert Southwest to the problem. She said that she didn’t feel comfortable, sitting in the middle seat of the row, to reach over and alert an onboard flight attendant.
The conversation, which some may find alarming and some may find amusing, continues in the Instagram posts below.
@Randy@JJ @Tom: it’s relevant because it’s news. The fact that the offended party has a business in WeHo should seem obvious as to why we’re reading about it on WEHOville. It’s not rocket science folks.
OK, so based on that logic, if anyone, anywhere in West Hollywood, who owns a business, does anything, it is “local news?” And if you think that is true, what relevance does this story have for hose living in West Hollywood? As in, what does it have to do with our community, except that someone who lives here had an experience somewhere else?
This is fake news. You can’t access porn sites from SWA’s inflight WiFi (I tried!).
She said she paid for WiFi to report the problem, not that he was using it. You can store porn on a tablet device.
Although it may have been very uncomfortable, she needed to confront him and tell him to stop, and also get up and tell the flight crew. We must learn to speak up.
It’s not her fault it happened but he deserved the embarrassment and legal repercussion. Sadly, this creep got exactly what he wanted without consequences and it makes me angry and disgusted.
I’m just curious, this is relevant to West Hollywood news because the publicist lives in West Hollywood? Any other reason?
EXACTLY.
WitWWoF is wrong with people? Who does that? Who watches porn on a plane – etc. etc. etc. ? And who doesn’t stand up and demand the pig be stopped?