A woman is being hailed a “hero” for confronting a fellow passenger who she spied sending a text calling her “fat”.
TikToker @ohmikayousofine posted about the incident on her social media page. The video shows a passenger sitting beside her onboard an aircraft who seems to be looking down at her phone.
In the video the Tiktoker explains that she was sitting next to a woman who she calls ‘Cathy’ when she spotted her lit-up phone screen. She then claims she said to her in-flight neighbour: “If you’re gonna call somebody fat sitting right next to you, you could at least turn your brightness down.”
“She looked at me and said, ‘you weren’t supposed to see that’,” adding that she replied: “I was like, well, you didn’t make it very unobvious.”
The Tiktoker claims the incident occurred at around the same time that she asked a flight attendant for a seatbelt extender.
The incident was reported to the flight attendant who swiftly apologised for her experience, repling: “Some people just have the audacity.”
Crew offered the Tiktoker the option to move seats, but she decided to stay put.
