Posted on 08/13/2025 9:31:57 AM PDT by Bonemaker
A United Airlines flight was cancelled after a female passenger suffered an explosive bout of diarrhoea and vomiting that destroyed the aircraft's tiny bathroom.
Writer and actor Meghan Reinertsen freely admitted she was to blame for the mid-air disaster, revealing she spent an hour and a half locked inside the lavatory during the July 2024 flight from Newark to Indianapolis.
Reinertsen said the nightmare began moments before boarding her connecting flight home from Portugal, when she suddenly felt the first waves of what she later discovered was severe food poisoning.
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It’s time that commercial airlines start installing larger and more accomodating rest rooms for passengers.
For some reason I expected a Rosie O’Donnell looking type.
What’s the old saying though?:
beauty is only skin deep but IBS goes clean to the bowels?
I don’t trust much about Newark. I’ve stayed there and ran into some suspicious mafia types nearby who wanted to know the hotel I was staying at.
I did not need to know this.
Don’t drink the water...
CC
Handy tip: Never have a wicker or mesh wastebasket in the bathroom.
She's saying it's food poisoning but those symptoms are closer to Norovirus.
Also, the timeline between the supposed undercooked food the night before and the explosive diarrhea seems too long.
Yes, that could be!
Nor did I.
When flying, avoid using the toilets on the plane whenever possible. They are a great place to get sick from all kinds of bacteria. Use the toilets in the airports before and after the flights whenever possible.
And yet, here you are instead of just scrolling on past.
Flying from Singapore to Manila on Philippines airlines, I made the mistake of ordering low sodium meal. They served me a dish of prawns. An hour later I started feeling weird and went to the tiny rest room in plane thinking I might throw up. Next thing I found myself sitting on the floor of the restroom. I had passed out and fallen down. Thank goodness for the t. iny restroom, there was not enough room to fall and hit head on something. I got up and slowly made my way back to seat. In Manila I had to retrieve my checked bag and go through customs to catch next flight to San Fran. It was an ordeal for sure. By the time plane landed in San Fran I had thankfully recovered.
So she went into an airplane bathroom, shit her life away, caused the plane to be grounded and had to tell the world about it?
Slow news day at DM?
Slow news year, more like. This happened in July 2024.
Same with my brother in the early 1990’s. Bad oysters in one of the famous, at the time, seafood restaurants in San Francisco.
The manager tried to pay off my brother and sister to not go to the hospital or report it to authorities. My sister called 911 anyway. That day the city banned the selling of seafood harvested in the bay until the toxins went away, and closed that restaurant for a week.
A woman I worked with got bad oysters in SF in 1988, and became allergic to shell food and the entire nightshade family of foods. It really sucked for her to be allergic to tomatoes and potatoes.
If you’re sitting near the rudder and the plane begins to shudder. diarrhoea… diarrhoea….
It’s by the grace of God that this never happened to me, and realistically doesn’t happen more considering the difficulties of travel and expecting bathroom trips to respect the flight schedule.
I sympathize with people suffering bowel diseases such as Crohn’s and IBS, who are at the mercy of their ailment anytime they leave home.
The whole bathroom situation on airplanes is a joke. Tiny rooms and only or 3 or 4 for hundreds of people. And people congregating in lines in the aisle next to seated passengers is very uncomfortable. Airlines just trying to cram as many people in as possible...there should be higher standards for restrooms. Make them in private areas at the back behind a curtain like on larger international planes. And I never understood how they can make these huge planes fly but not get the sinks to run water unless I hold down the knob.
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