The person claimed the crew gave him the option to arrest his fellow passenger, while the girl claimed this is a “blatant” lie and claimed she has been “flooded with death threats” online because of the viral video.
A girl is speaking out after a video of her heated argument with another passenger on a JetBlue flight over an allegedly “stolen” cell phone charger went viral on social media.
In a video posted on TikTok On Tuesday, the girl, who goes by the name @Vanessa.Klover, identified herself as the “charger thief,” before explaining her side of the story, claiming the now-viral clip had been “taken out of context” and that she was receiving “death threats.”
The Charger Incident
Last week, a person who goes by the name @RcRelated on TikTok and who Daily Mail recognized as Eddie Orellano, shared a video of the incident on his profile. Over the clip — and within the video’s caption — he wrote, “Girl takes my Apple charger without asking and thought no one would find out.”
In the video, Orellano filmed a blonde girl, Vanessa, walking down the aisle of the plane with her luggage, before asking her if she took his phone charger.
“Yes, I do,” she stated, before Orellano, who appeared to be getting upset, asked her — repeatedly — why she took it.
“As a result, there was no one on the flight, bro. Chill, b–tch,” she informed them, adding that she would return the charger to him “in a second.”
As Vanessa continued to walk towards her seat, Orellano continued to grow increasingly indignant, raising his voice at Vanessa.
“You can’t solve problems without asking!” he yelled, as a girl sitting next to him tried to call him down. “Ed, I don’t want to get kicked off this plane! Sit down.”
Vanessa also waved to the camera, to which Orellano said she would be “famous” on TikTok.
Meanwhile, another passenger informed Orellano that he was “being ridiculous,” saying that Vanessa “would give it back,” to which Orellano responded, “No, you’re being ridiculous! She stole something without asking!”
“You can’t solve problems without asking!” he added.
Now in her seat, Vanessa took the charger from her bag and handed it to Orellano, before asking him somewhat mockingly, “Is it stealing if you give it back?”
“Of course, it’s stealing! You’re giving it away again because I caught you! And all the other people noticed you, that’s why!” he stated. “All the other people said you took it. What, you can’t afford a porter?”
Orellano went on to share a follow-up video, in which he detailed what he claims happened. He stated that the flight had been delayed three times, and he and his wife decided to get off the plane to get something to eat during one of the delays.
Orellano claimed another passenger approached him while he was in the terminal and informed him that a woman had “unplugged” his charger, which he said was on his seat, before she “rolled it up and put it in her bag.”
“Think about it,” he said. “She turned it off. I left it on. So it was on under the seat…she stopped people from getting out. She stopped all the people from getting out and bending down and turning it off and putting it in their bag.”
Orellano alleged that flight attendants gave him the “choice” of “calling the authorities” to have “this girl removed from the flight and arrested for theft.” He claimed he chose not to do so because the flight would have been delayed.
Orellano further stated that he would not have posted the video if Vanessa had not had “perspective” and “apologized” when he confronted her.
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“Charger Thief” hits again
After the video went viral on TikTok — which currently has over 14 million views — Vanessa took to social media to address the incident and share her memories of the moment, with the girl first explaining why she decided to respond.
“Hey everyone, charger thief here,” she began in the nearly four-minute TikTok video. “I wasn’t going to make a video responding to this at all because it’s been over a year, and I didn’t want to give it any more attention than it already has, but this has really been blown out of proportion.
“I am bombarded with harassment and inundated with death threats,” she continued.
Vanessa first gave “context,” saying the charger “was discovered in the back of a flight clearout, where we were told to remove all belongings as we didn’t know if we would be returning on the same plane as there were (were) technical issues.”
She claimed she was “coming from the back rows,” saw the charger and “picked it up off the floor,” but “didn’t unplug it.” According to Vanessa, she then asked the other passengers around her if the charger belonged to them.
“No furtive conduct here,” she said, claiming she presented the charger to a flight attendant. “I informed the flight attendant. She wouldn’t accept it because they can’t be held responsible for passengers’ belongings.”
Vanessa claimed that after they returned to the plane “a few hours” later, Orellano was already recording, claiming he was “stepping on people’s faces about this charger.”
“As soon as I walked in, I immediately informed him that I could get the charger, but just to give me a second,” she continued. “Several hours went by… honestly, it was the last thing on my mind. I didn’t even know where that charger was. What scared me was my 20-pound cat who had just thrown up on the gate.”
“I needed to find a safe place to leave my cat and my luggage, and also get a little bit further away from this very aggressive and erratic man, for my own safety,” Vanessa said, again claiming she told the man she would give him her charger, but to just give her “a minute.”
While she admitted after watching Orellano’s video that she may have acted more “classy,” Vanessa claimed that she “was really stressed” and “exhausted,” and was scared for her cat.
“(I was) clearly out of breath after eight hours in the airport, only to be recorded and yelled at,” she continued. “I acted completely imperfectly, as most individuals do under duress.”
She also dismissed Orellano’s claim that he “had the option to press charges,” calling it a “blatant lie.”
“What the video fails to indicate is that he effectively spilled his guts after I returned the charger, sat in my seat in the back, and he continued yelling at everyone, and the crew threatened to remove him from the flight if he couldn’t control his anger.”
“I’m sure he’ll make another video clinging to his 5 minutes of fame, denying and denying everything I’ve said here,” she said.
Vanessa said she has no plans to share another video and stressed that she “does not condone theft,” before again admitting that she “could have acted with a little more persistence and compassion.”
She concluded her video by noting that she doesn’t understand why a “misunderstanding about a cell phone charger justifies genuine harassment and death threats.”