I SAT NEXT TO AN AIR MARSHAL!!?? (Crazy Travel Story)

hello guys and welcome back to my channel today i'm going to tell you the story of the time i sat next to an ear marshal on a flight now before we get into the story i just want to preface it with this i'm going to have to hide some of the details of the story because obviously i do not want to give away the identity of this ear marshal that could lead to safety concerns and i obviously do not want to do that so i'm not going to change any details of the story but i'm going to hide some now let's get into the story so about a year and a half ago i was on a flight from somewhere outside of the united states into the united states it was one of these short flights perhaps somewhere between two and five hours long and it was a kind of flight that goes back and forth every day meaning you could start off the morning in the united states fly to that international destination and be back in the united states before night to give you a perfect example let's say you were flying from boston to toronto canada and then back but it wasn't boston and it wasn't toronto but you get the picture i'm sitting in my window seat on the right side of the plane it's a pretty small plane and we're soon going to take off the last passengers are boarding and they're walking down the aisles and the seat next to me there's one seat next to me and it's still empty and as i was watching the passengers who are boarding the plane walk down the aisle i saw this really big tall guy with a beard and i was just thinking please not this guy i do not want to sit next to this guy now i had nothing against the guy obviously i'd never met him before it's just that he was a big guy and i'm a big guy and it was a small plane and i didn't want to be squished the whole flight so i was sort of hoping that it wasn't going to be this guy turns out it was this guy sits down next to me really tall broad guy you could tell he had a ton of muscles and he was wearing a baseball cap he had a little chain around his neck but it was sort of inside his his oversized sweater that he was wearing and um he came on with a small bag he sat down first to let other people pass him in the aisle and then he got up to put his bag in the overhead baggage compartment now when he got up his sweater sort of uh lifted up as he raised his arm to put his baggage up in the baggage compartment his sweater lifted up and i noticed that he had a pistol tucked into his pants when i saw that i was like oh my god we have a terrorist on board and i was thinking what to do should i call for help should i say something to the stewardess quietly i wasn't sure what to do about it and then i thought you know what maybe this guy's an air marshal maybe he's been hired to secure the flight to keep the flight secure obviously we know that since september 11th there have been ear marshals on flights all over the united states and internationally even prior to september 11th there were already air marshals on flights but after september 11th it really increased so anyhow the guy sits back down next to me and i decide to talk to him to figure out if he is a terrorist or an air marshal so we start talking and the flight takes off i'm calm he seems like a nice guy he's giving me good vibes i'm not really worried about him too much but i still have that concern that he has the gun tucked into his pants anyhow uh the stewardess comes down the aisle she's giving out drinks and snacks obviously as an orthodox jew i can't eat or drink everything that is served therefore i was looking at some of the things that were being handed out to see if they were kosher or not and this guy sitting next to me seemed to know everything it's like yeah this one is kosher that one's not seemed to be very knowledgeable about what was going on in this flight so we continue our conversation and he asked me what i was doing in the country that i had just been coming from in the country that we had just taken off from so i told him i was there on vacation and then i said to him what were you doing and he said i've never been there and i said what do you mean you're coming from there and he said yeah but i've never been in the country he didn't elaborate at that point i remembered that i had actually seen this guy once before because on my flight to the country that we were currently leaving he was on that flight so that means when we landed i got off the plane and walked into the airport and then i realized that i forgot something so i ran back to the ramp and tried to get back onto the plane and this guy was at the door and he wouldn't let me on he was wearing a yellow neon vest and i remembered that he wouldn't let me on the plane so then i realized that i was sitting next to the guy who didn't let me on the plane so obviously he was working for the airline or something and i said to him point blank are you a mechanic and he said no i am not and then i said are you security and he said yes and then i was calmed because i realized that he had a gun for a good reason but then i asked him are you allowed to tell me that you work for security that you are securing the plane he said i'm not supposed to advertise it but if you ask me i'm allowed to say it then i noticed that the necklace that he was wearing which was tucked into his sweater all i could see was a little bit of a chain on his neck there was this badge thing bulging out from under the sweater so i could sort of see the the form of this badge on his chest under the sweater so that made more sense to me i asked him if he works for the tsa and he said no he's not a federal air marshal then i asked him if he worked for the airline and he said no he does not work with the airline but he did tell me that he was hired by a third-party company to secure the flight for whatever reason so i asked this guy how long have you been going to this destination and he said i've been going every single day for the past year and a half i go in the morning and i come back in the afternoon so basically he was going back and forth every single day and i said have you never been inside that country and he said no i've never visited but i'm going to be going for the first time next week my next question to him was what do you do with your equipment when you enter that country and he said you mean the stuff in my bag and i said no i mean the thing on your belt which was probably not a good idea because the next thing that happened was he stopped talking to me basically he ignored me for the rest of the flight and we sat in awkward silence and i realized that i asked one question too many anyhow about an hour later we landed back in the united states he got up from his seat we said our awkward goodbyes and that is the story of the time i sat next to an air marshal thank you for watching and have a wonderful day you