Vanessa Clover JetBlue passenger denies stealing passenger Apple phone charger, saying man ‘blew it out of proportion’ as TikTok video shows tense scene unfolding.
A female passenger sought to shrug off her ‘taking’ a fellow passenger’s Apple phone charger after passengers momentarily de-planning during their travels on JetBlue.
Despite tacitly admitting she had ‘taken’ (some would say ‘stolen’) the item not belonging to her, the passenger since identified as Vanessa Clover, said to have a large social media following which she has now scrubbed, instead of apologising or admitting her ‘misbehavior’ insists on combatting the male passenger whose item was taken without his permission as passengers briefly exited the plane while stuck on the tarmac at Miami, Florida.
Footage of the unfolding incident, posted to TikTok by @RcRelated, showed the woman donning a mane of blonde hair walking down the plane aisle back to her seat when the man recording her asked if she was the one who took his charger.
@rcrelated1 #CapCut ♬ original sound – RcRelated
‘Yeah, I have it,’ an out of breath Clover replies, nonchalantly shaking her head.
The bewildered man proceeds to scold her for ‘stealing the charger’ and repeatedly asks her why she thought she could take it.
‘Nobody was on the flight,’ she exasperatingly replies, before telling the man to ‘chill the f–k out.’
‘Don’t take things without asking!’ the man shouted back at her as she proceeded to make her way toward her seat several rows behind him.
‘I’m going to give it back,’ the harried female passenger tells the man.
Multiple flyers on the JetBlue plane defended Clover as they tried to de-escalate the heated confrontation.
A passenger seated beside the upset man asked him to sit down, saying she did not want to get ‘kicked off the plane.’
Another passenger walking behind the alleged charger thief then intervenes, telling the man he’s ‘being ridiculous’ and that she said she ‘was gonna give it back.’
‘No, you’re being ridiculous. She stole something without asking,’ the upset traveler tells the interjecting passenger.
As Clover finally reaches her seat three rows back, she pulls the charger out of her bag, reluctantly trudges back to the aggrieved passenger and hands the device back to the man as the flustered passenger continues to call her out for stealing it.
‘Is it stealing if you give it back?’ Clover sarcastically asks the man as he grabs the charger.
Yes kids, you know where this sh*t storm is going …
‘Yes, it’s stealing! You’re only giving it back because I caught you! Everyone else saw you, that’s why!’ the man sternly tells Clover before the video ends.
In a follow-up TikTok, the man explained that the incident happened after their flight was delayed three times.
@rcrelated1 Woman takes my Apple charger and thought no one would notice part 2 #apple#thief #jetblue #miami ♬ original sound – RcRelated
During one of those delays, the pilot allowed passengers to deplane and get some food. The man said he and his wife took advantage of the situation and deboarded.
While in the terminal, another passenger approached him and informed him that the woman had snatched his charger, pulled into an outlet at his seat, ‘rolled it up and put it in her bag.’
‘Keep that in mind, it was plugged in, and she unplugged it,’ the man shares.
The man then said the flight attendants were made aware of the situation and allowed him to ‘call the authorities’ to have the woman ‘removed from the flight and arrested for stealing.’
Knowing it would delay the flight yet again, the man said ‘no’ and ‘moved on’ from the situation according to the nypost.
Clover responding to the ‘snafus’ on social media said the incident had been ‘blown so out of proportion.’
@vanessa.clover When a video from over a year ago taken out of context goes viral…. While I should have responded better, please consider there are always two sides to every story! 🫶🏻 @RcRelated @RcRelated ♬ original sound – vanessa.clover
‘I am getting bombarded with harassment, flooded with death threats,’ Clover said in a TikTok about the incident, which happened ‘over a year ago.’
Clover alleged the charger was found on the ‘ground of an emptying flight’ where passengers were told to remove ‘all possessions.’
She claims she held up the charger to the people around her, and no one claimed it as theirs. Clover then said she tried giving it to a stewardess who told her she ‘wouldn’t take it because they can not be liable for passenger possessions.’
Clover said the man was recording when she got back on the flight.
She immediately told him she would give it back and needed a moment because her cat was inside her brown carrier, and it had gotten sick outside the gate before they reboarded.
‘I wanted to find a safe place to set my cat down,’ Clover said. ‘And also get a little bit of distance from this like a very aggressive, erratic man.’
Clover nevertheless admitted she could have acted more ‘gracefully’ about the situation but was stressed and ‘exhausted’ over all the delays and did not believe she had stolen anything.
