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Impetus<\/strong><\/a>: A United flight going from Newark to Denver has to make an emergency stop in Chicago, to remove two unruly passengers from the aircraft.\u00a0 The two passengers, seated one behind the other, had an altercation that stemmed from the rear passenger applying \u201cKnee Defender\u201d clamps, which prevent the seat ahead from being able to recline, and the front passenger taking objection to being incapable of reclining.\u00a0 It culminated with front passenger throwing a cup of water in the face of rear passenger, before the flight was forced to land in Chicago to remove both from the aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n Never mind the story about the altercation, the takeaway from this entire story for me is that something like Knee Defenders actually exist.\u00a0 And I fucking love it.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, this is because I fly more than your average non-business traveler, and I\u2019ve had more than my fair share of getting the one person on the entire flight who decides that they\u00a0have<\/em>\u00a0to recline their seat.\u00a0 Seriously, there will be times where I get an entire row to myself, so I decide to spread out a little bit, and the person in front of me has the exact same idea, but has to make sure that they\u2019re in the seat in front of me.\u00a0 As soon as the ding indicating that we\u2019ve reached cruising altitude is heard, the seat plops back crudely, and if my leg is crossed, or the tray is down, it\u2019s an unpleasant sensation of having something appear to fall into your lap.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Knee Defenders are a thing of beauty.\u00a0 They\u2019re like handcuffs for the people in front of you.\u00a0 You want to recline?\u00a0 Too bad, bitch.\u00a0 It\u2019s only three inches, and it can\u2019t possibly make you any more comfortably, at least not to the magnitude it\u2019s making me claustrophobically\u00a0uncomfortable<\/em>.\u00a0 So I\u2019m taking the right away from you.\u00a0 And there\u2019s nothing you can do about it but bitch about it, or tattle to a flight attendant, and hope they fare better in getting me to remove them.<\/span><\/p>\n Subsequently, it\u2019s no surprised that\u00a0some<\/em>\u00a0airlines have disallowed the use of Knee Defenders, but I think people riding on airlines that don\u2019t prohibit them, have every right in the world to use them if they wanted to.\u00a0 Obviously, given the circumstances in which I frequently fly, Knee Defenders are not something that I\u2019d have with me on most of my flights.<\/span><\/p>\n However if I were ever to get on a flight with a different provider, that didn\u2019t prohibit Knee Defenders, I\u2019d totally have them.\u00a0 And I wouldn\u2019t be as obvious with it either; I\u2019d give the inevitable fat recliner in front of me, perhaps an inch, but not the full reclining capabilities.\u00a0 Make them think that perhaps it\u2019s the seat, and not a third party force preventing them from getting full reclining.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not really as swole as I like to think I am, but I\u2019m apparently broad shouldered enough to almost always be rubbing elbows and shoulders with everyone if I\u2019m in the middle seat; it would be fantastic to reduce my discomfort in at least one direction.<\/span><\/p>\n But god damn, does knowing that Knee Defenders exist really start creating sadistic fantasies of handcuffing inconsiderate passengers from being able to recline their seats and reduce my human claustrophobia just a little bit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: A United flight going from Newark to Denver has to make an emergency stop in Chicago, to remove two unruly passengers from the aircraft.\u00a0 The two passengers, seated one behind the other, had an altercation that stemmed from the rear passenger applying \u201cKnee Defender\u201d clamps, which prevent the seat ahead from being able to … Continue reading These things exist??<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,112,15,52,65],"class_list":["post-39592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-airports","tag-crime","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39594,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39592\/revisions\/39594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}