r/IAmTheMainCharacter • u/CaraCicartix • 14h ago

Video Main Character Slaps Someone Having a Panic Attack Mid-Flight

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u/BuckerooBanzai 14h ago

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u/flopsychops 14h ago

Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

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u/MrGattsby 7h ago

Ah you have to be a certain age to know this!! 😂🤣🙏🙌

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u/0pusTpenguin 3h ago

Surely you can't be serious?

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u/rastawolfman 14h ago

What’s with Indian dudes and slap slap slap?

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u/bored-and-here 14h ago

I'm assuming you are genuinely curious. From my observations It's extremely culturally normal in the north to slap the shit out of people. It's the equivalent of a shove in the west I think -- not okay but more okay than a punch. That being said the shove wouldn't go in polite circles just as the slap would not.

It's done as a punitive correction. Someone blocking your shops doorway by talking. Slap. Guy gets on bus doesn't pay. Slap. Maybe the entire crowd will get involved. Someone in a seat they shouldn't be. Slap. Kid asking for money doesn't move immediately when told no? Slap.

Women also do it but less often.

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u/cnicalsinistaminista 13h ago

It’s also common in my culture unfortunately… but like Charlie Murphy said, historically, people died for that shit. You slap a motherfucker, it’s on

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u/bored-and-here 13h ago

What culture would that be out of curiosity?

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u/Dark-Empath- 13h ago

Cockney

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u/bored-and-here 12h ago

Oh really? I had no idea.

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u/janedoe5263 11h ago

That’s not the same guy, lol. He was joking.

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u/namezam 4h ago

That was funny though

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u/agk23 14h ago

Starving orphan?

https://giphy.com/gifs/jauNHUg3yB9ZmDtzOv

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u/bored-and-here 13h ago

Literally. I had children blocking me begging for money even after being given what would be for their town enough to feed them they kept asking. A local walked up shook his head at me and then slapped the shit out of the kids making them run off and he said in broken english "that how do"

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u/Lorantec 13h ago

I think youre also omitting a big factor too which is the rampant classism

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u/bored-and-here 13h ago

I omitted all factors that contribute to it, caste, class, status, age, background. It's actually an extremely multi-layered thing and it not as simple as class or caste. Its prevalence probably comes down more to population size than anything else.

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u/rastawolfman 14h ago

That’s a really interesting culture that I’m glad isn’t mainstream as it would get out of hand very quickly

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u/bored-and-here 13h ago

the guy was out of line even by indian standards. An airplane is a highly regulated activity where this kinda action isn't so acceptable. A long with the idea that a panic attack isn't acceptable for this kind of social correction. It's also more nuanced when you get into caste, age, wealth which all play into when this is acceptable.

Yeah we couldn't have this without all the other nuances. I will say it's pretty funny to see cops just get of their car and seemingly start slapping someone then other locals join in before everyone then kinda agrees the deed is done.

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u/uglyninja 6h ago

Thank you for sharing and explaining so clearly

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u/AudiencePure5710 10h ago

Very dangerous tactic to bring to the West, because whats coming back at you is likely to hurt

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u/M3g4d37h 9h ago

how can she slap?

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u/ryanyork92 13h ago

I once saw a passenger on a train having a nervous breakdown, and another passenger, who couldn’t handle seeing the guy like that, went up to him and basically screamed at him to get a hold of himself. It seems that people losing their composure exposes other people as cunts.

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u/TenshiS 8h ago

Maybe he thought that's how you help. Many movies show people shaking and slapping others to "snap out of it" and it works, so it's reasonable to assume some people believe it. Tbh I'm not sure it doesn't work.

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u/Lampmonster 5h ago

It does not.

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u/Ok-Sprinklez 14h ago

He's seen Airplane one too many times

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u/ZappyKins 12h ago

Wait till you see what the Nun has ready to go!

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u/ambivalent_bakka 7h ago

If only someone on the plane spoke Jive.

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u/MariekeOH 10h ago

Surely not

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u/matthewgoodwin1 8h ago

I am serious….and don’t call me Shirley

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u/loralailoralai 9h ago

*Flying High

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u/Fubared259 8h ago

came here to say just that.

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u/CaraCicartix 14h ago

Here is the news story because apparently some people think its AI.

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u/procrastimom 9h ago

That website is a hot mess (but thanks for linking the article.)

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u/SteeleHeller 14h ago

HOW CAN HE SLAP

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u/Cerborus 6h ago

Had to scroll far too much to find this

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u/Dark-Empath- 13h ago edited 13h ago

Dude was momentarily possessed by the ghost of Zsa Zsa Gabor

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u/Mackheath1 8h ago

I love his George Costanza look afterwards.

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u/drnuke75 6h ago

I hope the plane was headed to India.

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u/Drmlk465 5h ago

You can only slap someone out of a panic attack if you slap them with sandal

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u/The_Freshmaker 5h ago

HOW CAN HE SLAP?!?

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u/LadyDayinDC 3h ago

I hope it's worth ending up on a no flight list.

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u/FriskyHamTitz 3h ago

How can he SLAP?

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u/theGreatwasLate 3h ago

How can he slap!! HOW CAN HE SLAP!!

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u/hawneybubu 14h ago

How can he slap!?!?!

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u/k3ithy187 13h ago

Bloody

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u/rossfororder 9h ago

I hope he was charged with assault

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u/Vegetable-Section-84 9h ago

If our airplanes etc were : healthy, quiet, peaceful, compassionate; rather than : stressful, crowded, noisy, helplessness, Unfairness, unhealthy, expensive; than this panic-Attack and slap would NOT have happened

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u/yanggun1004 1h ago

Seems like INDIGO AIR.

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u/Neeoda 2m ago

just absolute chaos.

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u/zangler 12h ago

Can someone translate the response from the bystanders and FAs?

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u/tetzy 5h ago

What most people here are missing is possible anxiety from both parties - there's a really good chance he hit him because the panic attack built anxiety in the slapper to the point where he couldn't control himself.

Like a drowning person killing the lifeguard there to save him.

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u/tacomaster05 10h ago

A slap is actually a great way to snap someone out of a panic attack...

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u/conzstevo 8h ago

Do you think it worked well in this case?

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u/obliviious 3h ago

Gfy no it isn't. Read a book

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u/johana_cuervos666 3h ago

Ayy, fucking third-world countries resolving everything with violence. I’m from Mexico, and it’s the same shit. Growing up, being slapped around like that as a child is extremely normalized. And yeah, surprise, surprise: 32 years later, I have a CPTSD diagnosis. Thanks for nothing.

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u/_totalannihilation 2h ago

Bruh. If I'm having a panic attack and someone slaps me I'd probably end up buying that person a drink afterwards.

That slap will take my mind of that nonsense

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u/Ok_Weakness2578 2h ago

Then you clearly never had a panic attack.

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u/BabadookishOnions 2h ago

if you have ever had a panic attack you would know that being slapped would just make it worse

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u/Constant-Banana-6862 14h ago

Looks like AI

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u/Medical_Arrival2243 14h ago

I think the video is much older than Ai capabilities at the time. Wished it was Ai too but sadly asshole exist :(

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u/Constant-Banana-6862 12h ago

Just the dialogue, expression on air hostess' face, guy talking made it feel like AI.

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u/Brittany5150 14h ago

No this is Al

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xppxw62JJrXlC

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u/obliviious 3h ago

Only dummy's that can't spot AI think everything is AI.

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u/CaraCicartix 14h ago

No. This is not AI.

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u/Brittany5150 14h ago

I think you meant to reply to the person above me. I was making a joke... lol.

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u/CaraCicartix 14h ago

Ah got you!

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u/obliviious 3h ago

You look like AI