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'Did that mother****er pay extra to yell?': Southwest passenger loses his mind over crying baby, gets booted off plane
Image source: Twitter video by Mark Grabowski via @asv141 - Screenshot
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'Did that mother****er pay extra to yell?' Southwest passenger loses his mind over crying baby, gets booted off plane

A crying baby proved too much to handle for one middle-aged Southwest Airlines traveler who responded with his own temper tantrum, of a far more vulgar variety. While it appears the nonverbal infant ultimately made it to Miami, the deranged passenger was escorted away by police.
Mark Grabowski, a passenger on the flight, captured the incident on video, which has since gone viral.
Grabowski told WOFL-TV that the flight was originally headed to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but got diverted to Orlando International Airport due to undesirable weather conditions.
"It was a little bumpy and uncomfortable for everyone and the child was upset, but we couldn't get up because of the weather, and we were strapped in our seats," said Grabowski.
With everyone confined to their seats, the baby's parents were no doubt limited in their ability to console the child, shaken by the turbulence.
According to Grabowski, upon being roused from his slumber, the deranged passenger "basically said shut that baby up, and it escalated from there."
The deranged passenger can be heard saying in the video, "Why is the baby yelling? I'm not screaming. You want me to scream? You want me to scream?! I'll f***ing scream. Please stop the baby."
Monique Pass, also a passenger on the flight, told "Good Morning America," "All of a sudden, this guy was just screaming on the top of his lungs. It was definitely a good five minutes or so, and it was just getting worse and worse and worse."
When one flight attendant informed the deranged passenger that he was yelling, he responded, "So is the baby."
To which the attendant said, "OK, you're a man."
This response prompted the deranged passenger to wonder aloud, "Did that motherf***er pay extra to yell?"
Flight attendants tried to pacify the passenger, going so far as to relocate a woman and the baby to the back of the plane. It wasn't enough, however; the passenger lost himself in an unhinged, expletive-filled rant.
"We are in a f***ing tin can with a baby in a g*****n echo chamber and you want to talk to me about being f***ing OK?" he can be heard screaming in the video.
At one point, the deranged passenger notes that as they had not yet entered the airspace over Florida, the baby was not yet free to do whatever it felt like.
After repeated attempts to calm down the passenger failed, WOFL reported that the flight crew contacted the authorities.
Upon landing in Orlando, the Southwest crew reportedly gave the deranged passenger the option of getting off the plane of his own volition or being forcibly removed after all other passengers were deplaned.
Grabowksi told WOFL, "He chose the latter, and we all got off the plane and there was a lot of mumbling past him."
"Good Morning America" reported that police officers met the deranged passenger at the gate.
Southwest Airlines said in a statement, "We commend our crew for exhibiting outstanding professionalism while handling a challenging situation, and we offer our apologies to the other customers onboard who had to experience such unacceptable behavior."

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Joseph MacKinnon is a staff writer for Blaze News.
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Joseph MacKinnon is a staff writer for Blaze News. He lives in a small town with his wife and son, moonlighting as an author of science fiction.
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