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Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing

posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 23 2018, @08:06AM   
from the bottom-burps dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

An elderly man's flatulence forced his flight to make an emergency stop after a fight broke out over his barrage of bottom burps.

Passengers flying with budget Dutch airline Transavia from Dubai to Amsterdam were reportedly put out by the man's continued farting, and asked him to stop.

But the man failed to hold it in, and when even a direct order from the pilot didn't take the wind out of his sails, two particularly incensed passengers took matters into their own hands.

Local media reported that two Dutchmen sat next to the trumper started a fight with the man, which escalated to the point where the pilot was forced to make an unscheduled stop.

On landing in Vienna, armed police boarded the plane to remove the men who caused the ruckus, along with two sisters who were seated next to them.

Also covered at The Straits Times.

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• blue flames blue flames (Score: 4, Funny) by canopic jug on Friday February 23 2018, @10:37AM (3 children)

  by canopic jug (3949) on Friday February 23 2018, @10:37AM (#642310) Journal

  While I am exceedingly glad that smoking is not longer allowed on planes, not even weed, I have to point out that he could have been lighting them. It would have the dual purpose of eliminating the stench as well as passing the time with entertainment for him and the people next to him. If they'd just let him have a butane lighter he could have been peaceably blueflaming the whole trip rather than precipitating a fight causing a diverted flight and excessive delays.

  Another thing also resulting from security theatre is that the flights themselves are much worse. Boring as hell. Because of the long lines you can no longer chew peyote and time it so the vomiting kicks in just right to be assumed air sickness.

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• Re:blue flames Re:blue flames (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:06PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @12:06PM (#642330)

  What a neat way to keep people from sitting up real close on those cramped airline seats. The most effective thing I had seen before was a small screaming infant. Worked wonders. No-one would sit there until the plane was completely full.

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  • Re:blue flames (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday February 23 2018, @03:12PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Friday February 23 2018, @03:12PM (#642393)

    > The most effective thing I had seen before was a small screaming infant.

    So what you're saying is we need to feed the baby beans and then improvise some sort of crowd control weapon out of it.

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• Re:blue flames (Score: 2) by EETech1 on Friday February 23 2018, @02:54PM

  by EETech1 (957) on Friday February 23 2018, @02:54PM (#642379)

  Ol' Musky got his own flamethrower!
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