A teenager accidentally made a young flier cry by watching an edgy film while on a flight.
The 19-year-old insists he did nothing wrong having caused tears to spill on a flight home to see his parents.
Despite having deliberately tried to keep the gory flick as discreet as possible, one of his seat neighbours ended up watching a particularly horrifying scene.
"I had a few movies downloaded on my phone, including the second Deadpool," the man explained on Reddit.
"I was watching it on my phone with headphones in, when the part where Deadpool gets ripped in half happens, and I can hear a (muffled) scream behind me.
"I take out my headphones and there's a little kid behind me, crying. He had positioned himself in a way that he could watch my screen and had watched him get torn."
The boy's mum clocked what had happened and offered some stern words to the teen traveller.
"His mum got mad at me and yelled that I shouldn't be watching that kind of thing, especially in front of children," he continued.
"But I wasn't aware anyone was watching me, and that kid would have had to force himself into that weird position to see my phone screen."
After asking whether he was in the wrong, he clarified that the flight left at 11am and landed at 5pm, that the child was around six-years-old, and that he'd chosen to watch the film on his phone to limit the chance of anyone seeing.
The post sparked a debate about whether you're responsible for other people's children when on flights, and the etiquette of inflight film watching.
"She should've watched her own kid," one person said of the child's mother. "She was happy he was occupied until it backfired and decided to shift the blame."
Another person argued the teenager shouldn't be blamed for bringing his own racy film onboard, arguing: "The airlines have R rated movies in their entertainment wi-fi setup so they must expect folks to watch them. Even so, that poor kid!"
A third wrote: "The mum is in a public setting, it's her responsibility to watch her child. It's troubling that she didn't notice her kid was watching your movie."
Another commenter wrote: "The only scenario where she's not a total AH is if it was a late night flight or they've has this kind of connection, and she fell asleep before she noticed what her kid was doing. Even then, she shouldn't have yelled.
"If she was awake, then I have no excuse for her."
