Traveler refuses to give up window seat after woman makes bold request for family

As summer travel kicks into high gear, the game of musical chairs in the sky shows no signs of slowing down as the seat-swapping trend continues. 

In the “r/americanairlines” forum on Reddit, a user titled a post, “Finally happened to me.”

The person wrote, “Maybe I should stop reading about seat swappers … because it finally happened to me. Get in my 2A seat and I tell the woman, ‘Hey, before you get settled, I’m at the window.’ And she goes, ‘Well, my husband and I are apart in separate aisle seats.'”

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The user continued in the post, “I go, ‘OK, well, I’m not moving, so I hope you figure it out.’ She goes, ‘Well, it’s still business class.’ No.”

The Reddit poster added, “To clear this up, I’m on an airbus 2×2. No middle. And it was my seat that I paid for. Moving to an aisle when I booked a window months ago is not the same … otherwise [I] would’ve obliged,” the flight passenger clarified.

The post garnered over 1,000 reactions as people took to the comments section to discuss the issue and share their own encounters with seat swappers on board flights.

“I’m not at all for seat swapping. It’s ridiculous,” wrote one user.

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Another user wrote, “Returned recently from Munich and the lady across the aisle kept asking me to switch seats so she could sit next to her husband.”

Another person wrote, “I mean, there’s no harm in asking, but if the answer is ‘No,’ politely drop it and move on.”

“Unless a person has some sort of illness where their traveling partner needs immediate proximity, there’s no point in this,” wrote one user.

Many users addressed fellow flyers’ need to be near their spouses or family members on planes.

“Why can’t grown-ups just suck it up if they are not next to one another for a few hours?” commented one user.

A Redditor wrote that she and her spouse “fly often, and sometimes we can’t sit next to each other – big deal. We never ask someone to trade seats.”

A user admitted, “I am one of these seat swappers any time I travel with family. We reserve a row and the window and aisle seat … hoping no one gets the middle … If we happen to get a middle [seat]er, we ask them if it’s OK if they get the window instead or aisle. Haven’t had a complaint yet … Hoping it stays that way.”

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California-based etiquette expert Rosalinda Randall weighed in on the situation, telling Fox News Digital that “no one has the obligation to switch their seat.”

“The person making the request has no right to expect [this] or make a scene when they don’t get their way,” said Randall.

Randall said there may be some circumstances in which it would be a minor inconvenience to switch. 

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“It’s a short flight, you can find a similar seat in another row, or anyone would be an improvement from the passenger [you’re currently] sitting next to,” said Randall.

Teacher caught in sting allegedly wanted to meet teen when parents weren’t home

An Oregon high school teacher is behind bars after an undercover sting operation led to authorities charging him with online sex crimes against children. 

Oscar Armando Ramirez, 36, allegedly had sexually explicit conversations with who he believed was a 13-year-old girl while working as a local high school teacher, according to the Portland Police Bureau. 

However, Ramirez was actually talking to an undercover police officer posing as a child in a sting operation targeting online predators, authorities said. 

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“The chatting continued for four days and included lewd sexual conversations about acts that Ramirez wanted to do with her,” the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. “In the conversations with [Bothell Police Detective Mike Garcia], Ramirez agreed to meet with her and made arrangements to meet when her parents would not be home.”

Ramirez allegedly revealed he was a high school teacher while the pair were communicating, prompting authorities to notify the Gresham-Barlow School District, which subsequently placed Ramirez on leave. 

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The Gresham-Barlow School District and Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

Last week, Ramirez was taken into custody outside his Portland home and charged with three counts of luring a minor and one count of online sexual corruption of a child. He is currently being held in the Multnomah County Detention Center.  

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The investigation did not reveal any crimes involving students at the high school or any other children, police said.  

Ramirez pleaded not guilty to the charges and is set to return to court on Tuesday, according to KOIN 6.

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Fox News Digital was unable to immediately locate an attorney for Ramirez. 

John O’Keefe did not die where prosecutors claim in Karen Read trial, doctor testifies

John O’Keefe did not hit the back of his head and suffer fatal injuries on the lawn where Karen Read found him the morning after prosecutors allege she clipped him with her Lexus SUV and left him to die in a blizzard, according to a defense expert.

“If you fall back on a flat surface, you get, many times the tear you get in the scalp can be more like a star because you just hit one part, and then the tears go and kind of a star pattern,” testified Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, pointing to an evidence photo not shown on the courthouse video stream.

“And also, because you would not have those vertical, discrete vertical scraping of the skin, you, you would tend to if you fell back on grass, you would tend to see, you might see grass in the wound, or you would tend to see an irregular kind of crisscross pattern of the flattened grass. And that’s not what we have here on Mr. O’Keefe.”

She said he must’ve hit his head on an uneven surface – one she said she didn’t see in photographs of the lawn at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts, where O’Keefe was found under a blanket of snow around 6 a.m. on Jan, 29, 2022.

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“But that ridge also, it wasn’t smooth,” she testified. “It had some little grainy, grainy things sticking up on it.”

While she agreed that blunt force trauma to the head killed O’Keefe, she also said she did not see signs of hypothermia, alleging that the second cause of death in his official autopsy was misdiagnosed.

Laposata’s testimony also contradicted the testimony of Dr. Aizik Wolf, a brain surgeon who took the stand for the prosecution earlier in the trial and said O’Keefe’s skull fracture showed “classic” signs of a fall. 

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“The only way he could get this kind of an injury was to fall backwards, hit the back of his head, and then the resulting energy forces going into his brain, into the base of his skull,” said Wolf, who testified that he’d seen numerous injuries, often fatal, from backward falls in icy Minnesota weather early in his career.

“This is what happens when soft tissue hits a solid ground,” he testified.

Read’s defense scored a minor victory before jurors arrived in court Tuesday for the 30th day of her murder trial in the death of O’Keefe, her former boyfriend and a Boston police officer.

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Attorney Alan Jackson asked Judge Beverly Cannone to reconsider and order yesterday blocking defense witness Laposata from testifying about dog bites.

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After a contentious back and forth with Brennan, which saw the two talking over one another and raising their voices, Cannone denied the request but also offered a compromise.

“In her experience, Mr. Jackson, you have to lay a foundation in her experience saying animal bites,” Cannone said. “This is consistent with what she has seen in an animal bite.”

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Laposata is a forensic pathologist and professor at Brown University’s medical school, whom Jackson described as “absolutely peerless,” although she resigned from her prior role as Rhode Island’s chief medical examiner amid an audit that found her office let hundreds of incomplete autopsies languish under her watch, according to local reports from the time.

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She returned to the stand once jurors arrived, and she explained the internal injuries to O’Keefe’s brain and said pressure on the brain stem from internal swelling and bleeding as a result of the fracture is what killed him.

The cut over his right eye, however, was caused by a different impact. She said it did not appear to have been inflicted by the spoiler on the back of Read’s SUV.

Judge denies Diddy’s mistrial request as ex testifies about alleged ‘hotel nights’

Judge Arun Subramanian denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request for a mistrial Tuesday morning ahead of the cross-examination of the rapper’s ex-girlfriend.

Jurors heard testimony last week from Cassie Ventura’s friend, Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who claimed Diddy dangled her off a 17th floor balcony in September 2016. Portions of her testimony were questioned after Bana couldn’t remember details of the alleged incident, including what drugs she was on at the time. 

Diddy’s legal team argued that the prosecution knowingly presented false testimony to the court in a letter filed June 7 and obtained by Fox News Digital.

Diddy’s legal team wrote that Cassie and Bana each provided “demonstrably false” evidence about the balcony allegation to the court, and then “doubled down, using this false testimony to obtain a ruling admitting inadmissible hearsay evidence about it as well, all to present a false narrative to the jury.”

However, the federal judge ruled there was no interference. Judge Subramanian noted the defense was able to, and did, attack Bongolan’s testimony to undermine her credibility. According to the judge, there was no prejudice to an exhibit that had helped the defense’s case.

Diddy’s defense argued the issue could not be raised before Bongolan took the stand, and it’s obvious she perjured herself. The defense insisted there is no basis that the government wasn’t aware this testimony was false.

The prosecution said there wasn’t perjury and Bongolan’s testimony could be explained by confusion, mistakes or faulty memory. The government pointed out Bongolan admitted she didn’t remember all the details.

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Following Bongolan’s testimony, Didddy’s ex-girlfriend Jane took the stand. Testifying under a pseudonym, she told the jury about meeting the “Last Night” rapper in 2021. The two dated until Diddy’s arrest in September 2024.

According to Jane, she was forced to participate in “hotel nights.” During these sessions, which could last anywhere from 24 hours to multiple days, she was allegedly expected to have sex with other men while Diddy watched.

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Jane was dating Diddy when Cassie’s sexual abuse lawsuit was made public. She claimed she read three pages that showcased a similar experience to hers.

“I was reading these pages, and they felt like a nightmare,” she told the jury. Jane began to cry on the stand, saying she had a lot of sympathy for Cassie. “I can’t believe I’m reading my own story,” she recalled thinking at the time.

Jane testified from Thursday through Monday. Her cross-examination began Tuesday.

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