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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Food poisoning is no joke. I feel for her.
Been in the same shape more than once, fortunately at home and not an airplane.
Not a damn thing to be done, except an IV, which my wife did for me once. Nothing quite like sitting on the pot with an IV, lol.
had it from some bad shrimp 20 years ago. I wasn’t afraid of dying, I was afraid of living.
Sh!t happens
The onboard janitorial crew earned their pay that day
“...diarrhoea and vomiting that destroyed the aircraft’s tiny bathroom.”
Reason #9 why I don’t fly anymore (quit flying after July 1996 TWA800 downing).
Scat lovers will be seeking her out. Perhaps she will appear on one of those porn sites in action.
I don't like that awareness.
Quite a story, but this happened over a year ago! And I actually got an alert from the Daily Mail yesterday on this, as if it were breaking news!
The DM seems to be famous for running stories with catchy headlines that have happened years ago!
This takes "no such thing as bad publicity" to a whole new level.
So hellish. I used to fly hundreds of hours for business. It’s pure hell when you have a migraine or food poisoning etc.
A few times (3) I had a really awful thing happen where I had to lie down in aisle. My body gave me no choice. I still don’t know what that was all about but it was very embarrassing and the crew was not happy. Perhaps some kind of extreme flying fatigue?
Yeah, it blows.
This is late summertime, when there is not a great deal of NEW-news to report. Near back to schooltime. It’s a non-election year, many have had enough Baseball for the year. People have gotten used to hearing about lone gunmen shooting up another shopping mall.
It’s always a tragedy, but no longer a shock.
So, let’s recycle old stories for a new round of clicks and comments of Outrage.
At times it can be a bit watery thus spreading a bit more.
Waiting to clear customs without blowing chunks out of both ends seemed like an eternity.
I don’t do claustrophobia.
That’s how I felt the last time I caught a bad case of norovirus. Symptoms are about the same, too.
A traumatic event for everyone, but mostly for the poor woman who suffered that bout of incontinence. Great discomfort and severe embarrassment.
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