‘Give it back’: Woman ‘steals’ Apple charger

The extraordinary moment a woman admitted to stealing a fellow passenger’s Apple charger on a flight has gone viral. Now, she’s telling her side of the story.

A brazen JetBlue passenger admitted to taking a fellow passenger’s Apple phone charger on their flight, only to get into a heated back-and-forth on their plane.

Footage of the tense incident showed the woman walking down the plane aisle when the man recording her asked if she was the one who took his charger.

“Yeah, I have it,” the woman boldly replies, nonchalantly shaking her head.

The bewildered man then scolds her for stealing the charger and repeatedly asks her why she thought she could take it.

“‘Nobody was on the flight,” she replies, before telling the man to “chill the f**k out.”

“Don’t take things without asking!” the man shouts while she continues to head toward her seat several rows behind him.

“I’m going to give it back,” the woman tells the man.

A woman was filmed admitting to taking a fellow passenger’s Apple charger on a US flight. Picture: TikTok

Multiple flyers on the JetBlue plane defended the thief 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 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.

Finally, the woman reaches her seat three rows back, pulls the charger out of her bag, and hands it to the man as he continues to call her out for stealing it.

“Is it stealing if you give it back?” the woman sarcastically asks the man as he grabs the charger.

“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 the woman before the video ends.

In a follow-up TikTok, the man explained that the incident happened after their flight was delayed three times.

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 nabbed his charger.

“Keep that in mind, it was plugged in, and she unplugged it,” the man claimed.

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.

The woman, identified as Vanessa Clover, came forward to tell her side of the story, insisting the charger was on the “ground of an emptying flight”. Picture: TikTok

The woman accused of stealing the charger, identified as Vanessa Clover, said the incident had been “blown so out of proportion.”

“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.”

She 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.

“I totally acted imperfectly as most of us do “under duress,” she said.

Clover then claims that the flight attendant approaching the man about having the police remove and arrest her was a “bold-face lie.”

“That never happened. What the video neglects to show is him losing his mind well after I give him back the charger.”

This story first appeared on The NY Post and has been republished with permission.