How To Shame A Person That Gropes You On A Flight

There’s an interesting video going viral which was taken by a lady after she was groped on an IndiGo flight within India. Here’s the description of the YouTube video:

‘This man on the seat behind mine, put his fingers in the seat gap to touch me!!! I was very shocked for sometime to react. By then the flight went to landing mode. Then the moment flight touched down, i got up. Saw his hand was again on the side ready to take up any opportunity to touch me!!! I created such a scene, humiliated him in front of the whole flight! He thought like usual girls will keep quiet and he can get away with this! I have lodged an FIR now! He is a very rich man of Bhubaneswar and is now very humiliated in front of the people who know him. Cant believe the ordeal i had to go thru but being silent is a crime! The police officer was very helpful and the Indigo staff remained with me throughout. The man is under police custody currently. I clicked his pictures and made videos, shouted so loud that the entire plane came forward to see him! i made sure i humiliate him as much as possible because i know law will do nothing’

And here’s the video:

I say kudos to her for standing up to him!

What do you think? Did she do the right thing, gutsy as it might have been?

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Just Saying Guest

I would never purposely grope a stranger. However, I can think of two instances where I could have been falsely accused: (1) I was on a EWR-HKG flight in business first in Continental. I was fast asleep. For some unknown reason, I started awake and my leg jerked up. I caught the Chinese woman on window seat in the crotch trying to climb over me to go to the toilet. I was mortified. Luckily she knew it was an accident and was amused. (2) I was walking near Port Authority in Times Square. My swinging hand accidentally hit a girl in the rear that I did not even see or know was there until my hand bumped her and she started yelling at me. If either of these women had video taped me and put my face on the internet, my life would have been ruined.

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Rick Guest

I am all for women empowerment in India especially North India. Given the girl's accent in the video, it seems they are from that region. So kudos to her for standing up. However, I am gonna play devils advocate here. What if the guy didn't grope her and she made a mountain out of a molehill? Idea of personal space is quite different over there and it even makes me (a guy!) uncomfortable. What if the man was being his usual self and unknowingly trespassed her personal space in a confined space? I am not defending the male by any means but just food for thought... he might guilty or she might have overreacted. We don't know both sides of the incident.

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Christian Guest

I have a lot of respect for the woman standing up to the guy. The one thing that scares the bejesus out of me is if some unwarranted similar accusation was leveled against me. I'd be embarrassed, and not know how to react.

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Mary Jane Guest

This is a comment directed at Bill. "How much groping could he do anyway." I can't believe anybody would say that in this day and age. Unfortunately, that is the mentality that leads to rationalization regarding sexual harassment. Oh come on...no big deal UNLESS IT'S YOUR BODY!!!

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BHill Guest

Agree with TEX2777 & Adam.

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