Posting to Reddit, the user explained her nightmare experience on a flight from India to the US.

"It was a nighttime flight and everyone was beat. It was also a small, budget airline with not much legroom,” she wrote.

"About 10 minutes into the flight, the kid behind me started kicking my seat. To be clear, he wasn't very little, maybe nine or 10.

"I let my dad know and he politely asks him to stop, and he does... for about 10 seconds. We tell him again (more firmly this time), but no luck."

Fed up with the kid’s incessant kicking, the father decides to take matters into his own hands, reclining his seat all the way back, cramping the child’s space.

"When they ask him to put it up he doesn't. They call the flight attendant and the jerk's dad talks to him,” she explains.

However, the flight attendant had witnessed the boy’s behaviour and explained that he was well within his rights to recline his seat if he wished to.

The daughter recalled: "He walks away with the dad left spluttering and cursing under his breath. Fun times!”

The father stuck to his guns and kept his seat reclined for a whole hour, only sitting back up when he was sure the kid was done kicking.

Reddit users have flocked to the comments to praise the girl’s dad on his petty revenge tactics.

"Your dad gets an A+ in petty revenge,” one user wrote.

"He should have waited till they had drinks (hopefully cold) then reclined rapidly - oops sorry!" another suggested.

A third commenter wrote: "I would have just turned around and stared at the kid intensely until he stopped.”

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