A passenger aboard a low-cost flight from Athens to Singapore had a pretty crafty fix for the airline’s lack of entertainment: a pocket projector.
The passenger whipped out the projector and played the 2000 movie “The Patriot,” starring Mel Gibson. He used overhead bins as his screen.
The screening happened in March and was captured on video by fellow traveler Douglas Lazic-Kirk, who shared the moment on TikTok.
Lazic-Kirk has been to 147 countries and boarded hundreds of flights, he told USA TODAY. The explorer recalled seeing weird things like people putting their feet on other travelers’ seats but has never seen anything like this, he said.
“I’ve flown on more than 800 flights around the world … I fly every three days, on average,” said Lazic-Kirk, who is from the Central Coast in Australia. “I’m flying a lot and to see that on the plane just blew my mind. That’s what made me start filming.”
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The passenger took out the pocket projector about three or four hours into their 12-hour flight, said Lazic-Kirk.
The lights were turned down low and he had three seats to himself. He looked pretty comfortable as he watched the film, Lazic-Kirk said.
The passenger who brought the projector was very courteous though, Lazic-Kirk said. Whenever people walked by, he moved the projector so it wouldn’t hurt their eyes.
No one complained, he said.
“Everyone that could see it, their eyes were stuck to it,” he said. “I don’t even like those types of movies and I was watching and reading the subtitles. It made time pass.”
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