A flight attendant saw a passenger hot gluing jewelry in flight and asked for the glue gun. The pass...

Narrative:

I walked up on a passenger using a hot glue gun. She had it plugged into the seat outlet. She was using this hot; electrical item to glue on jewels to fabric. It caught me by surprise. I asked her to please be careful; and she snapped back; that she does this all the time; and why am I saying anything to her. I quickly tried to research this sort of occurrence in my manual; I could find nothing that pertained to this sort of incident. I called our a flight attendant (flight attendant) and told her. She said she would approach the passenger to unplug the hot glue gun. Our captain overheard our conversation and concurred. Get it unplugged now! Please educate me on this sort of electrical item. I felt it could have caught the fabric on fire? Burned seats; carpet; walls in the cabin. This is definitely a safety related issue.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Flight Attendant saw a passenger hot gluing jewelry in flight and asked for the glue gun. The passenger refused; but after consulting with the Lead and Captain; ordered the passenger to surrender the hot item. The Flight Attendant was concerned about the lack of prohibited item guidance.

Narrative: I walked up on a passenger using a hot glue gun. She had it plugged into the seat outlet. She was using this hot; electrical item to glue on jewels to fabric. It caught me by surprise. I asked her to please be careful; and she snapped back; that she does this all the time; and why am I saying anything to her. I quickly tried to research this sort of occurrence in my manual; I could find nothing that pertained to this sort of incident. I called our A Flight Attendant (FA) and told her. She said she would approach the passenger to unplug the hot glue gun. Our Captain overheard our conversation and concurred. Get it unplugged now! Please educate me on this sort of electrical item. I felt it could have caught the fabric on fire? Burned seats; carpet; walls in the cabin. This is definitely a safety related issue.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1367340
Time
Date	201606
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Component
Aircraft Component	Electrical Power
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Qualification	Flight Attendant Current
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Passenger Misconduct Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

A flight attendant saw a passenger hot gluing jewelry in flight and asked for the glue gun. The passenger refused; but after consulting with the lead and captain; ordered the passenger to surrender the hot item. The flight attendant was concerned about the lack of prohibited item guidance.