I find this story to be interesting on a couple of levels, beyond what meets the eye. I also can’t help but wonder about the circumstances that caused this…
Continue reading: Eek: American Airlines Passenger Finds Used (Magnum) Condom In Seat
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Not sure why anyone cares? If it wasn't a truly used condom with pictures, this seems like a big nothing.
VFTW vibes!
Someone disposing of night before evidence before they arrive home to their wife and kids after their business trip. Case solved.
Respect to Tim if he is using it.
We can't have more Dunn offspring reproducing.
Look at how much a single Dunn can do.
Imagine the next Dunn offspring with darker obsession with more sick things.
Tim Dunnzynski, Timothy McDunn, Tim Dunndy, Timothy Dunhmer, Timmie and Clyde, TD Cooper, Osama Tim Ladunn, Bernie Madunnff, Tim Dunnman-Fried, Timothy Epsdunn.
To name a few. The world is done with Dunn.
Why is this even news. So much gross stuff like this happens all the time but ofc you don't really see publicly.
I'm actually very curious why did Ben mention "Magnum" in the title.
This piece of detail is mentioned 0 times and can only be seen from the picture.
Does "Magnum" make a difference?
He reported the issue, a flight attendant dealt with it, it's not the airline's fault, I'm not sure what this guy wants. Sounds like he's just jealous of the guy who needs Magnum size.
In my experience, most men who use Magnums don't actually need them, so there's that.
JD Vance has a thing for couches. Wouldnt surprise me if for TD it’s the very vintage 764 seats.
Seems like it was just the wrapper, not the actual condom itself, and it may have just fallen out of someone's pocket midflight and gotten wedged into the seat? Doesn't seem like a big deal to me other than just indicative that trash pickup inbetween flights really doesn't try that hard.
Not as sick and scary as if you found John Wayne Bobbett's member there. Remember Lorena Bobbett, the wife who chopped it off?
I suspect maybe it was expired and the person didn't want to use it so they put it there as a joke.
I thought Ben would work towards moderating comments to match its quality with Ben's high quality contents, but it seems he rather downgraded his contents' quality instead. It's sad.
IIRC, Mr. Bobbitt had his member reattached and not long (heh) afterward, had a small (heh), short (heh)-lasting porn career before he shrank (heh) away.
Just a prank nbd. I’d be much more concerned to find one on a metro…. But no one would even imagine trying to get compensation from the metro- why do we expect airlines to just pony up points every time something isn’t perfect? Our entitlement culture is going to destroy us
Ben, I have to agree with the other comments here. I am one of your biggest proponents and Omaat and your reviews, as well as most of the news stories you blog about, are second to none, but pieces like this absolutely detract from your blog. Being a slow news day doesn't matter. I'd prefer you simply didn't post anything to something like this. Completely un-blog-worthy. Now... If you've had a few glasses of Dom in EK F and posted this because of that, then we can give you a pass... But otherwise, please stick to real stories.
*thinks of Frank Oz's scene in The Blues Brothers*
"One unused prophylactic."
*uses a pen to pick the next item up*
"One soiled."
Going to agree with some of the other comments. This is a no story. Gross? Sure. Any different from a used tissue? Somone placing their bare feet on the seat? Blowing their nose and wiping it on the seat?
Story seems bullshit to me and I’m glad AA chose not to compensate him. You’d start having people finding condoms on every flight.
Anyone waiting at the gate and boarding within minutes of the previous passabgers disembarking would have a good idea how much cleaning takes place between flights.
And on a personal note, Ben: you’re better than that. This is not a competition - it’s ok to have a slow blog day. No need yo bring out the condom and seat recline stories.
Ben, there is so much better clickbait out there for the taking, you just have to browse Reddit. Blue Origin explosion, UA flight breach attempt, etc.
Perfect reply.
The majority of repressed men who travel away from family for work on company dime. A little fun on the side and nobody knows..
But I do think it was meant as humour by the person who left it there.
I have to defend Ben a bit here....prank or not it's gross and literally AA can't even offer this guy 5k miles or something?
The airlines just don't care anymore and this is truly an egregious example....I think that's his point. This was weird and AA handled it weird.
Not a chance! It was Magnum size. That should have been your first clue it wasn't him.
Love the people who feign outrage yet they clicked on the story and took tome to reply.
My late wife's first and names were very similar to Lorena Bobbitt. Sometimes upon introduction we could see a strange look in the greeter's eye, and we eventually figured out why. Now I dont think the younger generations even know that name.
For the Nth time people, this is Ben's blog and he is free to write about whatever he wants just like you are free to read it, comment on it, or skip it. And it's a free blog. When you have your own blog you can do the same.
Kudos to the prankster and f the whiner. Witnessing a birth control device with your very own eyes has zero bearing on your flight enjoyment.
Yes, I saw that the traveler reported finding both condom and wrapper, yet I only saw evidence of the latter. And to my mind, it's far more believable that somebody would have just a wrapper in their pocket and not both wrapper plus the used wrap.
So apparently there is an assumption of a used condom based on the package but not the actual used condom.