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Delta flight returns after passenger has diarrhea ‘all the way through’ plane (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] _bug0ut 67 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Passengers, reportedly including the one suffering diarrhea, were allowed to re-board after an eight-hour delay [...]

God damn if I was the person who did it, I'm not sure I'd want to get back on and just have people stare at me with contempt and disgust for an entire international flight.

Alternately, I might feel obligated to suffer along with everyone else, all things considered.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No way I'd be boarding that flight in either role. If it happened once it can happen again!

[–] _bug0ut 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just keep hearing "smell of vanilla shit" in my head and I'm like, "Naw, I'm good. I'll sleep at the airport and try to catch an early flight tomorrow." Haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know that smell: I grew up in a house with ventless bathrooms, but plenty of Glade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

🤢

[–] TotallyNotJohnSmith 1 points 10 months ago

Upvote, but ewwww... I remember that smell....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Unless they refund me, I'm boarding. Can't afford to throw away an air ticket.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

A person had a medical emergency, it sucks, but to treat them like they did something purposefully wrong, or that they should feel ashamed, is not just pointlessly mean, it's ableist, too.

[–] _bug0ut 10 points 10 months ago

I don't know if you're chiding me or not, but in case you are: I quite literally put myself in their shoes in the post you're responding to.

And for the record, without going into the horrifying details, I lived a very similar situation at a really nice hotel on a work trip. I had the luck of being alone and able to clean it up on my own without anyone noticing but for that 45 minutes where I frantically ran to a 7/11 to buy paper towels and hand sanitizer as a stand-in for proper cleaning product and then frantically cleaned it up like MacGuyver was just handed a single thread and a thimble to diffuse a bomb, I dreaded more than anything that someone would see before I had a chance to take care of it.

I agree that it would be cruel to treat that person any differently because they had an unavoidable accident that caused all this, but people suck. And even if everyone was super understanding, I'd still be absolutely mortified as the person who did it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Do you have IBS?

Regardless, I know someone with IBS, and yes they constantly are embarrassed by their incontinence.

This person wasn't "treating" them differently, they were exhibiting empathy.

You should probably learn how to tell before jumping to conclusions. My advice would be to read a book, or anything that wasn't written on an online forum.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 10 months ago

And people are going to do it. Surprise!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Literally so

[–] SulaymanF 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This article is not making it clear what happened. Diarrhea in the seat, aisles? They had to turn back because quantity, smell, or passenger dehydration?

Edit: seems one of the links shows the carpet.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most importantly: what did they order? Was it the fish?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to say good luck. We're all counting on you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

[–] kescusay 2 points 10 months ago

Roger, Roger.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

They do actually. Right at the top they explain that

"Passengers re-board flight to Spain after eight-hour delay while social media posts describe flight crew mopping up mess"

There's also a video linked that show a trail of diarrhea in the aisles

https://twitter.com/fl360aero/status/1699209346725343743

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god, it's worse than I imagined.

[–] SulaymanF 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is that possible? It HAD to have been a kid running without pants on staining the whole aisle… right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I can imagine that they were making a mad dash for the toilet and didn't make it. They thus were leaking it along the aisle while still trying to get there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That link is staying blue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You made better choices than I did

[–] getynge 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Having diarrhea on a plane is like my worst nightmare times 11 and this article isn't helping

[–] cabron_offsets 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah bruh I am STOKED to spend hours on a plane a month from now to go to a fucking destination wedding for my cousin.