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TObound wrote:You guys seriously blaming the woman for being stalked? Unbelievable.
jumpship wrote:How do you all know she decided to keep getting the texts? Have you ever been stalked? I have. It brings out a lot extra. And before you ask. I could sue over it but I have been through enough and hopefully it is done.
There are so many things that can get into a person’s mind. What if it is a pilot and he would crash the plane if she did that? I think a bit of people would have that thought alone, even ones that don’t normally have anxiety. How do you know it didn’t trigger other things?
Strong people survive in messed up scenarios, get faulted for not handling it right by people with no exact context and then go about their lives the best they can while filtering things through a new set of eyes and challenges to deal with that was not asked for.
intrance wrote:Blocking the number does seem like an easy solution. On the other hand, the idiot behaving this way would just do it again to someone else. Perhaps now he learns his lesson instead.
People just suck.
VV wrote:Why is it important to specify "female passenger"?
An airline employee stalking any passenger is creepy, in my opinion.
VV wrote:Why is it important to specify "female passenger"?
An airline employee stalking any passenger is creepy, in my opinion.
cschleic wrote:The linked story says she had her phone number on her luggage tag, if that's correct. Shouldn't do that these days.
FGITD wrote:cschleic wrote:The linked story says she had her phone number on her luggage tag, if that's correct. Shouldn't do that these days.
Working with baggage service people has long since taught me that the only thing you want on the outside of your bag is the checked tag, and perhaps a tag with just your name. I also recommend putting those little paper tags they give you at the counters, simply because it'll draw attention to the airline staff if it has their logo on it.
Everything else goes on a tag inside the bag.
It’s amazing what people put in plain sight. Names, email addresses, home addresses.
vhtje wrote:So why didn’t she simply block the sender’s number once he refused to reveal who he was and/or she decided she didn’t like the direction the conversation was going?
How can this escalate into legal action against the airline?
VV wrote:Why is it important to specify "female passenger"?
An airline employee stalking any passenger is creepy, in my opinion.
FGITD wrote:cschleic wrote:The linked story says she had her phone number on her luggage tag, if that's correct. Shouldn't do that these days.
Working with baggage service people has long since taught me that the only thing you want on the outside of your bag is the checked tag, and perhaps a tag with just your name. I also recommend putting those little paper tags they give you at the counters, simply because it'll draw attention to the airline staff if it has their logo on it.
Everything else goes on a tag inside the bag.
It’s amazing what people put in plain sight. Names, email addresses, home addresses.
WayexTDI wrote:FGITD wrote:cschleic wrote:The linked story says she had her phone number on her luggage tag, if that's correct. Shouldn't do that these days.
Working with baggage service people has long since taught me that the only thing you want on the outside of your bag is the checked tag, and perhaps a tag with just your name. I also recommend putting those little paper tags they give you at the counters, simply because it'll draw attention to the airline staff if it has their logo on it.
Everything else goes on a tag inside the bag.
It’s amazing what people put in plain sight. Names, email addresses, home addresses.
Well, some airlines recommend it:
Air France: We also recommend that you attach an address tag including your first and last name, mobile phone number and e-mail address to the outside of your baggage.
gatibosgru wrote:vhtje wrote:So why didn’t she simply block the sender’s number once he refused to reveal who he was and/or she decided she didn’t like the direction the conversation was going?
How can this escalate into legal action against the airline?
Because he is an airline employee harassing a customer?
vhtje wrote:gatibosgru wrote:vhtje wrote:So why didn’t she simply block the sender’s number once he refused to reveal who he was and/or she decided she didn’t like the direction the conversation was going?
How can this escalate into legal action against the airline?
Because he is an airline employee harassing a customer?
The fact he is an airline employee doesn't matter. He could be a hotel employee, a hospital employee, a department store employee, a gym employee, a club employee... any business/service/organisation that stores as reasonable amount of data on their customers/users/members and therefore employees of which are able to obtain customer/user/member's mobile phone numbers.
But that isn't my point. My point is, in this digital, app-enabled, texting world, we all get attention online from others we do not necessarily welcome. The answer to this is the block button, available whenever the interaction is going in a direction with which we are not comfortable. Why didn't Ms Barno simply block him?
Note: none of what I wrote above is to defend the guy, or to say is actions were not repugnant. I have no idea, I do not know what he sent. His texts could have been completely benign, or they could have been the filthiest, most offensive texts known to humankind. I simply don't know - and my thresholds of tolerance for this are probably completely different to Ms Barno's. But, if Ms Barno didn't like what she was receiving, she had the power to stop it, by blocking the sender. But she chose not to, for whatever reason. If she was that offended by it, she could have stopped it much earlier.
vhtje wrote:
Note: none of what I wrote above is to defend the guy, or to say is actions were not repugnant. I have no idea, I do not know what he sent. His texts could have been completely benign, or they could have been the filthiest, most offensive texts known to humankind. I simply don't know - and my thresholds of tolerance for this are probably completely different to Ms Barno's. But, if Ms Barno didn't like what she was receiving, she had the power to stop it, by blocking the sender. But she chose not to, for whatever reason. If she was that offended by it, she could have stopped it much earlier.
bennett123 wrote:A ‘woman like that’?.
TObound wrote:You guys seriously blaming the woman for being stalked? Unbelievable.
SuseJ772 wrote:
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them” - Margaret Atwood
It’s a different world out there for women then men. And that difference is based on reality. Specifying matters.
art wrote:Oh dear, Sokes. Are you a Jagermeister or a Jagermeisterin, I wonder.
art wrote:this discussion is about a woman being stalked.