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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:25 PM Mar 2015

Someone On a British Airways Plane Took a Shit So Bad That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/someone-did-a-shit-so-bad-a-british-airways-flight-had-to-turn-around-and-land-475

A British Airways flight was forced to turn around and land over the weekend because somebody did a shit so bad the plane was essentially rendered useless. Imagine living your life in the knowledge that you once turded so appallingly that a 747-400 had to turn around and land. Your liquid shit bought a £360-million ($533-million) airplane juddering out of the sky. Imagine looking your loved ones in the face after that. Imagine hugging your mom. You couldn't. Your asshole is essentially a terrorist.

Anyway, the BA flight from Heathrow to Dubai on Saturday had to turn around and flop back down again at Heathrow just 30 minutes into the seven-hour flight because somebody did a toilet crime.

Hertsmere Tory councillor Abhishek Sachdev—who has clearly not heard the "he who smelt it, dealt it" directive—happened to be on the flight, and, as well as tweeting his response ("Insane! Our BA flight to Dubai returned back to Heathrow because of a smelly poo in the toilet! 15hrs until next flight... #britishairways&quot also spoke to the Daily Mail about the ordeal. Again: imagine making a smell so bad a Tory councillor talks to a national paper about it.

"The pilot made an announcement requesting senior cabin crew, and we knew something was a bit odd," he said. "About 10 minutes later he said, 'You may have noticed there's a quite pungent smell coming from one of the toilets.'


Did the flight make an intermediate stop in South Park, CO?
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Someone On a British Airways Plane Took a Shit So Bad That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP
Once, Mr. Froggy got diarrhea while flying frogmarch Mar 2015 #1
Change their name to British Bad Airways kairos12 Mar 2015 #2
Too bad they couldn't just open a window to air out the place lunatica Mar 2015 #3
Mitt? Is that you? Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2015 #15
Rafalca counted his blessings he was strapped on the roof of the plane pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #19
It wasn't me okay ? olddots Mar 2015 #4
Jezuz Yonx Mar 2015 #5
Airline food? KamaAina Mar 2015 #13
Don't knock all overseas airline food pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #14
I always wondered why people expected stellar food on a two hour plane ride Skittles Mar 2015 #18
I'm guessing that wasn't on a Ryanair flight! T_i_B Mar 2015 #27
No, it was Eva Air :) pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #35
I once had a quite decent steak KamaAina Mar 2015 #32
I wasn't even in first class pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #36
Plane caught a bad wind Paulie Mar 2015 #6
Gives a whole new meaning to 'headwind' pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #7
Or perhaps in this case, TAIL wind Paulie Mar 2015 #8
That would be my #2 guess pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #9
Two/thirds of a pun.... Brother Buzz Mar 2015 #10
A royal flush Paulie Mar 2015 #11
I stink, therefore I am pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #12
Must have caused a huge pileup. nt clarice Mar 2015 #37
What a shame....the plane was two turds of the way there. nt clarice Mar 2015 #38
Winner! ROFL! smirkymonkey Mar 2015 #41
Winner! ROFL! smirkymonkey Mar 2015 #42
My boyfriend thought this was so funny he was laughing all day over it. mackerel Mar 2015 #16
What are they going to do, scrub the inside of the tank? Angleae Mar 2015 #17
When they asked the guy who empties the tanks why he doesn't get a better, cleaner job... pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #20
Well, it is a shitty job. Angleae Mar 2015 #23
Sounds like a job for... jmowreader Mar 2015 #21
Sent this to a pilot friend-he replied "Best email I've gotten all day." hobbit709 Mar 2015 #22
Stories like these romanic Mar 2015 #24
Why didn't they just open a window? Orrex Mar 2015 #25
That's what I was wondering too... Callmecrazy Mar 2015 #28
Exactly! Orrex Mar 2015 #29
It's the bureaucracy, I tell ya. Callmecrazy Mar 2015 #30
Or light a match Major Nikon Mar 2015 #44
Virgin train cancelled due to missing smelly poo T_i_B Mar 2015 #26
In many parts of the world they dump the poo right on the tracks Major Nikon Mar 2015 #46
Only 30 minutes into a 7-hour flight? There are toilets LeftinOH Mar 2015 #31
When nature calls, you have to accept the charges.... Coventina Mar 2015 #33
It would have been better to close the airport? hunter Mar 2015 #34
'Shit So Bad That It Had to Turn Around and Come Back Again' Special Prosciuto Mar 2015 #39
Aha! KamaAina Mar 2015 #40
'Captain, I'll say it again...if that stuff somehow gets into the engines, we're Doomed !" BlueJazz Mar 2015 #43
It's nature's way of telling you lovemydog Mar 2015 #45

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
1. Once, Mr. Froggy got diarrhea while flying
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:34 PM
Mar 2015

from St. Paul to Denver, and it was so bad he set off the smoke alarm in the men's toilet. The flight attendant kept banging on the toilet room door telling him to put out his cigarette or whatever he was smoking and come out or she would call for assistance in removing him. When he finally was able to come out and she realized he was sick, she helped him. He'd gotten food poisoning and was still feeling awful when he got home a day later.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
13. Airline food?
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:37 PM
Mar 2015

Remember airline food? Overseas airlines still serve it. bin Laden may one day be lionized as the man who eliminated it.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
14. Don't knock all overseas airline food
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:50 PM
Mar 2015

On long overseas flights I've ben served a very good filet mignon dinner with good wine. They know those very long flights are stressful and they do everything they can to minimize the stress and make them as pleasant as possible. They know that to do otherwise would just be Mad Max crazy.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
32. I once had a quite decent steak
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:00 AM
Mar 2015

the one and only time I was upgraded to first class. So it can be done.

mackerel

(4,412 posts)
16. My boyfriend thought this was so funny he was laughing all day over it.
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:20 AM
Mar 2015

I on the other hand wonder why they don't have latex gloves and bleach spray to solve these common problems.

Angleae

(4,482 posts)
17. What are they going to do, scrub the inside of the tank?
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:41 AM
Mar 2015

Directly underneath the toilet bowl sits the storage tank for all waste matter from the toilet. It can't be emptied except from the outside of the plane.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
20. When they asked the guy who empties the tanks why he doesn't get a better, cleaner job...
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 02:37 AM
Mar 2015

...he said, "What? And get out of aviation?"

Old aviation joke.

romanic

(2,841 posts)
24. Stories like these
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 07:24 AM
Mar 2015

are one of the reasons why I never eat/drink anything prior to getting on the plane. D:

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)
26. Virgin train cancelled due to missing smelly poo
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 08:11 AM
Mar 2015
http://eveningharold.com/2015/03/16/virgin-train-cancelled-due-to-missing-smelly-poo/

A Virgin train from Manchester to Euston was cancelled today, after the toilet in one of the carriages was found to be bearable.

The rail operator apologised to passengers but insisted that it was ‘more than their franchise was worth’ to attempt the journey without a foul-smelling pan trout.

“Our staff are trained to inspect the toilets on a regular basis, and deal quickly with anything that looks remotely hygenic”, said PR director Gordon Keeble.

“Unfortunately this train has been the scene of some vigorous flushing, and on this occasion, none of our staff were fully ‘up to the job’.”

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
46. In many parts of the world they dump the poo right on the tracks
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 10:45 PM
Mar 2015

The shitters are closed when the train is in station.

The last time I rode a French train it was that way.

LeftinOH

(5,354 posts)
31. Only 30 minutes into a 7-hour flight? There are toilets
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 10:58 AM
Mar 2015

in the airport, and the smelly shitter should have used them. If I'm about to take an hours-long flight, I'm gonna make sure my own "tank" is completely empty before I board.

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