Passenger appears to cook steak in aircraft toilet
‘They don’t have hot meals anymore on airplanes, so I came up with a solution,’ says video creator
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Your support makes all the difference.A Southwest Airlines passenger shared a video on social media in which he appeared to cook a steak in an aircraft toilet.
Marcus Monroe, an actor from New York who is also known for his online pranks, uploaded a video of him pulling off the stunt to Tiktok.
“They don’t have hot meals anymore on airplanes, so I came up with a solution,” read the video’s caption, before Monroe appears to light a chafing fuel cannister in the plane toilet, on which he places an aluminium baking sheet.
He pops a piece of meat on top, pours over white wine and even garnishes the meal with a sauce and some fresh spinach taken from a ziplock bag.
The video shows him plating up the meal and taking it back to his seat.
However, Southwest has since debunked the idea that the video is real, reports Simple Flying.
Monroe reportedly told them the prank was an illusion and he has since deleted the video from his Tiktok account.
This hasn’t stopped social media users raising concerns about sharing such content though.
“The problem of this is, people think it's true... And because it's on media they would repeat,” commented one user. “That is why this video, even if proven fake, should be removed.”
Another viewer added: “People think it is OK to prank or joke around and normal person won't follow. The problem is the internet isn't only for sane people, those who don't think will try to replicate this and see it as some kind of challenge.”
It’s not the first time passengers have been reprimanded for trying to film videos on flights.
Two women were kicked off an American Airlines flight in October after one of them attempted to hide in the footwell of her friend’s business class seat.
The plan was for the friend to remain there for the entire journey, as the pair allegedly thought the stunt would “drive viewers to their YouTube channel”.
“Before departing on 30 October, American Airlines flight 2205 from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Miami International Airport (MIA) returned to the gate at DFW for an issue involving two passengers,” an airline spokesperson told The Independent.
“The two passengers, travelling together, would not comply with seat assignments during taxi out. Law enforcement met the aircraft at the gate, the two passengers exited the aircraft and the flight departed shortly after.”
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