YouTube personality James Bates is going viral after pretending to be a Frontier Airlines flight attendant who duct-taped a passenger during a flight last week. 

On July 26, a Frontier Airlines flight was leaving Philadelphia and heading to Miami when 22-year-old Maxwell Berry became belligerent. He groped the breasts of two female flight attendants and physically assaulted a third before being duct-taped to his seat, Local 10 reported.

According to the arrest report, Berry had consumed several alcoholic beverages on the flight and was charged with three counts of battery. 

In the staged interview, the comedian turned a not-so-funny situation into a hilarious video that trended on Twitter Friday morning.

The YouTube video begins with a news anchor introducing the story before the YouTube comedian appears as Alfredo Rivera and recounts the events that unfolded, pretending to be the Frontier flight attendant who duct-taped Berry.  


“Now understand something, I’m a flight attendant, that means I attend the flights. Sometimes our job has us attending to crazy people. If you push us too far you gonna have to attend this ass whoopin’. You see because on this particular flight I’m sitting in the jump seat and I’m just looking at him act a damn fool, he’s spitting and cussing and going crazy,” he said.

At this point, Bates says he has had enough and needed to take action. 

“I got up and walked over there and by the way, this man smelled like a pack of Marlboro cigarettes, four shots of Everclear alcohol and regret, so I know something’s about to go down. At this point, he’s touching all over my coworker’s breast and where he f**ked up at, is when he touched my titties cause I don’t play that,” he said.

That’s when the fictional flight attendant presented the duct tape.

“He got scared and started stuttering saying 'hold up, wait a minute. Something ain’t right.’ I said ‘Yep, we ‘bout to mummify your ass now boy,’ so we wrapped him up, better than any Christmas present you’ll ever see. He won’t be coming on no more Frontier flights at all,” he said.

Bates delivered his act so well that he had some on Twitter convinced that he was the actual flight attendant on board, however, others who were familiar with the comedian’s prior work, made sure others weren’t spreading false information. 

Some people also thought the YouTube comedian delivered the story so well, that he deserves to have his own show on a major network.

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