pretty creepy

How long is the flight?

I don't know. Did he behave oddly otherwise?

I hope he prepays for the years of therapy this poor kid is going to need.

I'm not seeing it. Looks like every other large baby doll I've ever seen.

I admit that I have been creeped out my entire life by dolls. More so even than clowns. When I was a child, relatives would give me (they thought) lovely dolls as gifts and I would run screaming from the room. They soon learned that stuffed plush toys were much better choices. Things with faces: shiver.

I don't think that's too terribly odd, but who knows. Others on this thread seem a tad disturbed by the whole business.

You can buy large baby dolls with hundreds of different appearances, up to full size. Kids often like having dolls, or there wouldn't be so many of them sold.

I guess I can understand people not liking dolls, with their fixed stares, etc., but most people don't have any particular bad feelings about them.

I'm afraid I'm not understanding the feelings expressed in this thread. If someone sat next to me on a plane with a doll in the seat next to them, I'd notice it and then ignore the whole thing. I'd rather sit next to a silent doll, frankly, that a wailing real baby.

If you're frightened by dolls, I can understand that, but dolls are everywhere. Most kids like owning a doll.

And discuss our respective irrational fears. I have some fully rational ones as well. When the kids in my class were freaking out about the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz, what was going through my 8-year-old mind was (in 8-year-old thought), "holy fuck, that was a fucking tornado! That's REAL!"

I wouldn't turn my back on that thing. It has arms like Popeye.

Either he's well off enough he's doing this as performance art, or he's got a serious issue with a child or a concept of childhood that this doll represents. Even if the doll's a family wish token of some sort (sympathetic magic) or a representation of a recent loss, it's not normal to see this sort of thing in this day and age.

Any way, I'd probably feel creeped out, also.

Haele

WTF? Get a dog FFS.

The doll could've been on the wing.