A frequent flyer uses a 'deadly' phrase to get noisy plane passengers to pipe down.
Sam Dean has a no-nonsense policy when it comes to ensuring she gets peace and quiet on busy jets.
The New Yorker says that she turns to the offending party and tells them that she is going to a funeral.
While the statement may not be factually true, Sam says it always does the trick in terms of getting them to shut up.
In the video, which has more than 19million views, Sam says she even uses the technique when in hotels.
"If you’re ever at a hotel, or I’ve used this on planes as well, where people are next to you and being really loud and rude, and you want to ask them to be quiet, but don’t want to be a d*** about it," she said.
"If you say to them, 'Hey, I’m sorry, could you please quiet down? I have to wake up early for a funeral tomorrow,' every time they immediately feel so bad. They will quiet down instantly."
As morbid as Sam's advice may seem, the majority of people in the comments applauded her for her savvy trick.
"You're a genius," one person wrote.
Another wrote: "As a mortician I can use this every day while being totally honest."
Others gave their own advice for how to get people to be quiet, with one saying they pretend to know the offenders.
"Or make sure they know they’re too loud by joining the conversation. 'Sorry why couldn’t Barbara make it to the wedding?'," they said.
Another person said: "I just do a pretend call and say 'sorry this person is being super loud I can’t hear you'."
Some questioned the ethics of making up a funeral, with one woman saying: "I'm superstitious. I could never lie about a funeral."
If you aren't feeling quite brave enough to make a fake phone call or kill off a pretend loved one, then you can always wear earplugs, or quietly ask a flight attendant to have a word with the noisy neighbour.
One woman recently took to Reddit to explain how she dealt with a passenger who was keeping her awake.
She said she emerged from a light sleep to see a teenager, who she named Kevin, chatting loudly with the girl next to him.
"I checked the time, thinking we were close to landing, only to find out it had been less than an hour since I'd fallen asleep," she wrote.
"I expected them to stop soon to sleep, since it was already getting late and everyone else was doing that, but they kept going. And while the other two people were also to blame, Kevin was especially loud. The volume of his voice was similar to that of a 10-year-old on a school bus.
"I politely, but firmly, asked Kevin and his crew to either turn it down or stop talking, since there were other people on the plane and we were all trying to sleep.
"They stopped for about 15 minutes, during which I almost managed to fall back into blissful sleep. But then they resumed their conversation, Kevin loud and proud."
The woman said that Kevin spoke throughout the flight, laughing and screaming the entire time.
"He'd bounce on his seat, stretch his arms and legs, and just generally flail his limbs around," she continued.
"He would constantly move on and off his side, and his elbow would dig into my knees every time he did," she wrote. "He'd also throw his arm backward and hit the touchscreen tv, turning its bright light on before my eyes and forcing me to wake up and turn it off."
Eventually, 11 hours later, the plane landed - and the passenger said she'd enjoyed a total of 40 minutes of sleep.
"I just wanted to get off that plane. As soon as I was allowed to, I bent down to get my bag. At that moment, Kevin was moving around and accidentally elbowed me in the face," her post continued.
" Thankfully, the passenger was not injured, but she was 'beyond p****', and it was at this point she enacted her revenge.
"I gave him what must have been the worst, most hateful death glare I have ever given anyone in my life," she wrote. "I didn't see my face, but he immediately stopped laughing, turned back and sat still. I left the plane five minutes later."
Such was the ferocity of her stare, on the plane home Kevin clocked the irked woman and spent the entire flight, sat in front of her, "quiet and stiff as a board."
She added: "That's when I finally placed his expression and what I'd seen in his eyes earlier: fear. He was scared of me. My death glare from two weeks prior was enough to keep him quiet for the next 10 hours.
"Needless to say I had a great, restful flight, as did everyone else in that section. I sincerely hope Kevin learned something from this."
