Right? I actually scoffed audibly at: "The passengers let them walk down the aisle first, quietly clapping and smiling as they disembarked." These fatties just have to push their BS stories way too far like this.  It just doesn't make sense if you think about it for even half a second - how do airlines cope with all kinds of uncooperative passengers? Just hope a super-fatty in the relevant field is on board? And the whole, "Is there a such-and-such on board?" just sounds like something from a movie. Attendants have basic first aid training etc, and presumably also in managing special needs people. Even if it just falls under general people management skills. And they wouldn't just give up. And I notice the announcement asked for a "special needs teacher" specifically - who would even think to ask using that "insider" job title or even be aware it existed? Using wording that exactly matches the ham's title by total coincidence! Maybe you'd think to ask for a nurse I guess? "Special needs teacher" doesn't exactly spring to mind in an "emergency" (quotes for sarcasm there). Here's what really happened: Super-fatty here noticed kid wouldn't get in seat, volunteered itself to help unnecessarily and likely slowed things down and annoyed everyone (hold my fries!). Then made up heroic nature of the incident later. I actually half-expected it to end with, "And then the hot buff guy who rolled his eyes at me when I boarded got down on one knee and asked for my hand in marriage".