Posted on 02/17/2018 7:36:42 PM PST by sockmonkey
A low-cost Dutch airliner flying from Dubai to Amsterdam had to be diverted and was forced to make an emergency landing in Vienna after a fight between passengers broke out in mid-air. The reason for the altercation: one of the passengers refused to stop farting.
The pilot of the Transavia Airlines flight decided to make the unscheduled stop in Austria after things got a little out of hand during the journey. The Daily Mail, quoting Dutch news outlet De Telegraaf, reported that two Dutchmen objected when a flatulent co-passenger seated next to them kept
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An Orange? I’ve heard of dried fruit causing immense and deadly gas...but a fresh orange? Isn’t that like farting Pledge?
Fortunately she had other compensating characteristics.
that the incident had occurred due to "a passenger suffering from wind who was not attempting to restrain himself"
Nothing new here. I have heard of a headwind and a tailwind before. Did they serve free peanuts on the flight?
I swear that when I first saw the headline it thought it said “fats.”
Musta been that fish sandwich during the market tour.
There is also a book titled "The I Love To Fart Cookbook" in circulation.
Back in the 50s my grandfather was coming on home on a pulpwood truck and one of the guys in the crew got gassy. He was enjoying it so much that it caused offense. Finally he decided to fart in the face of one of the crew. The man threw the gas offender off the truck and it broke his neck. That story still gets trotted out at family events anytime someone doesn’t say excuse me.
Read the story. Funny.
Oh, stop. P!ease. I’m hurting.
“The best thing in life is to lay a stinky fart and get away with it.”
Once upon a time, we called such emissions Recon farts; “Swift, Silent and Deadly”.
Going waay back, had a science teacher that flew with the 8th Air Force. Related to a day’s lesson, he very clinically explained how altitude made gas expand.
Using a mission he flew on as an example, he explained that a crew members less than digested supper of hot dogs, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes expanded on the way to target. Crewman suffered such intense abdominal pain that the pilot was forced to abort the mission and return to England. Dumped their bomb load in the Channel.
Who knows, maybe it was a Sea Story of sorts but it was an entertaining lesson of how gas expaands.
Must have eaten an airport egg salad sandwich from a vending machine before boarding.
Interesting tidbit: The scientific study of this area of medicine is termed flatology.
Haha. Great story! :)
That’s something you wouldn’t want on your tombstone...died from his own farts...and where could you send the donations in lieu of flowers? Yikes.
“I guess the plane was one big Dutch oven.”
With a slight curry flavor maybe?
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