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Passenger films ‘non-stop’ baby screams during 29-hour flight from New Zealand to Germany
- Musician on a 29-hour flight recorded a baby’s incessant screams
- He flew from New Zealand – Germany which is at least a two legged flight
- Henry Beasley documented his own deteriorating mental state during the trip
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A passenger on a 29-hour flight from New Zealand to Germany recorded the incessant screams of a baby chasing the journey.
The hapless traveler Henry Beasley also documented his own deteriorating mental state as the piercing shrieks rang out for seemingly the entire duration of the 11,000-mile flight.
The musician, in the band Balu Brigada, sat a few rows in front of the banshee baby and seemed to be taking it in pretty good humour.
In a video posted to his band’s TikTok account, he said, “Rate my 29-hour flight to Berlin. Strong start, oblivious to the length and depth of the suffering he was about to go through.
“The boy has some lungs. Great projection,” he writes, along with close-ups of his own gradually suffering face.
Unhappy traveler Henry Beasley documented his own deteriorating mental state when the piercing cries of a screaming baby rang out for seemingly the entire duration of his 11,000-mile flight
An ugly tick begins to form in his left eye as he furiously chews gum with the endless screams in the background.
He even records specific catchphrases and rates them in an effort to stay sane with the caption “nice tall here, 100.”
Stellar performance, incredible stamina. 10/10′, he concluded the video, the plane in darkness and his patience was long eroded.
The video caused a stir on social media, dividing respondents between those who were outraged at the baby’s screams and those who sympathized with the parents.
‘I did that there. It’s not fun for us either,” writes one parent.
“But I’m glad someone didn’t videotape me listening to my kid scream.”
Another said, ‘Do you think we like our kids screaming and others around us having to listen? Absolutely not.’
Meanwhile, one apparently childless user commented, “The anger I get when I look at it.”
The video of the baby’s screams caused a stir on social media, dividing respondents between those who were outraged by the baby’s screams and those who sympathized with the parents
One user thought that flights should be split into flights with and without children.
“It should be called fleeing with people who choose not to have children for their own peace,” agrees another.
Flights between New Zealand and Germany require at least one stopover, and it’s unclear on which part of the flight Beasley had to endure the screams – or if it was both.
There are increasing calls for child-free flights, with some travelers expressing willingness to pay more for the privilege.
In a 2012 TripAdvisor poll, a third of Britons said they would pay a higher price if it meant not having children on board.
And twenty-two percent of respondents also said that a child who kicks the back of their seat is a hobbyhorse on flights.