The journey started off well enough.
Me and my (now ex) boyfriend were flying from our Sydney home back to London to spend some time with our families. We’d boarded the first leg of our flight, which would take us to Dubai – we’d had our ‘evening meal’ and were settling in to watch a couple of movies.
We were seated in a row of four in the centre of the plane. I was on the far right with my boyfriend beside me. To his left, a young, quiet man wearing headphones. And then on the far left of the row, another man, probably in his fifties. He was also quiet – for now, at least.
A couple more hours went by and I began to feel sleepy. Grateful for any rest during what was going to be almost 24 hours of travel, I closed by eyes and reclined my seat. But as I started to drift off, I felt a rhythmic thudding, like someone was kicking my seat.
The man on the far left was tapping his foot. Thud, thud, thud.
After 10 minutes of trying and failing to sleep because of the vibrations, I turned to my boyfriend. “Do you think you could politely ask that man to stop tapping his foot?” I asked.
My boyfriend leaned across, lightly touched the man’s arm with this index finger.
“Excuse me, mate.. would you mind not tapping your foot?”
The man leapt up like he’d been shot out of a cannon.
“This man hit me!” he yelled.
My jaw dropped as a flight attendant rushed over. “Please calm down, sir,” she said.
“I won’t calm down, you c*nt,” he bellowed. “I was struck by this man!”
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Theres more to this than what we are being told
Assumption or verified?
I believe this was some kind of a scheme here. You were lucky the man was weak on woman tears... Maybe... The thing is, your bf was right asking you to leave him behind. It is very risky for a foreign woman to stay alone in Arabic country. I think they needed some excuse to escalate a media sensation. For no reasons imaginable. Your BF would be just a pawn, and you would be lucky to get to counsel of your country unharmed... Not to disappear somewhere on your way. For this I see some reasons. And main here - the police didn't bother to check any marks on the body of that man, but was very interested in fabricating a deal. Maybe they do and that man showed them some old bruisers, thought, but you were lucky to get out. Later - the decision of that man to involve a police. Anyway, just step away from any Arabic, Turkish or Caucasian men, those cultures has a no respect for a foreigners and foreign women especially.