Controversial inflight device: Should the Knee Defender be banned?

The 2003 invention of 6'3-tall American Ira Goldman — "I was tired of being bumped in the knees by reclining seats" — the Knee Defender is a small pair of plastic clips that attach to your lowered seat-back table, locking the chair in front of you in

Last year we wrote about the Knee Defender, a pair of plastic gizmos that an airplane passenger can use to prevent the person in front of them from reclining. We wrote it up in utter dismayed fascination at a product directly 

The Knee Defender, a device marketed to airline passengers fed up with fellow fliers who hog their legroom by reclining,

A passenger on the United Airlines flight used a device called the Knee Defender to prevent the woman in front of him from reclining her seat, so she dumped water on him, and then the flight was diverted from Denver to 

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the man who purchased the Knee Defender and the woman who reclined her airplane seat into the knee defender and subsequently dumped a cup of water on his head are both total jerks. Anyone who can't