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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,225 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 12:27 PM Nov 2018

Delta passenger claims he had to sit in dog doo during flight

Delta has taken crappy service to a whole new level.

A passenger was shocked when he stepped into a large pile of dog poop aboard an Atlanta-to-Miami flight– and was offered only paper towels and a miniature bottle of gin to clean it up.

“I sit in my seat and I immediately smell something, and I thought, ‘Not another flight that smells bad,’” Matthew Meehan of Bay City, Michigan, told Yahoo Lifestyle of last Thursday’s flight from hell.

“I realized the person next to me also had their nose covered,” he continued. “And then I went to take my charger out, bent down completely to charge my phone and realized it’s not just a smell, it’s actually feces and it’s all over the back of my legs, it’s all over the floor, all over the wall of the plane.”

He and the fellow flier rushed over to the front of the plane to notify the flight attendants, whose response to the biohazard left him stunned.

https://nypost.com/2018/11/06/delta-passenger-claims-he-had-to-sit-in-dog-poop-during-flight/

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Delta passenger claims he had to sit in dog doo during flight (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2018 OP
Not a desirable situation, to be sure. MineralMan Nov 2018 #1
How do we know this is dog poop? violetpastille Nov 2018 #2
An assumption! Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2018 #3
Delta confirmed that it was. Blue_true Nov 2018 #6
Poop from an adorable fluffy golden retriever puppy. violetpastille Nov 2018 #7
Cheech and Chong have a scientific method on how to determine what it was. Kaleva Nov 2018 #4
And he was a "preferred" customer. Blue_true Nov 2018 #5
I don't buy this 'service dog' line crazycatlady Nov 2018 #9
It wasn't just one person that suffered dalton99a Nov 2018 #8
He must have flown pooch lame54 Nov 2018 #10

MineralMan

(146,189 posts)
1. Not a desirable situation, to be sure.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 12:37 PM
Nov 2018

It certainly should have been noticed by the crew that goes through the plane after the previous flight has deplaned. They don't do much, of course, but they are equipped to clean up something like that.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,225 posts)
3. An assumption!
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 12:48 PM
Nov 2018

According to the article:

“We didn’t know if it was a person who’d gotten sick, an animal who’d gotten sick. … Originally, the flight crew said that it was a German shepherd. And then the gate agent said in his paperwork that it was an older man who got sick upon landing.”

The airline later told him a golden retriever puppy dropped the deuce.

violetpastille

(1,483 posts)
7. Poop from an adorable fluffy golden retriever puppy.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 01:21 PM
Nov 2018

It's good luck if you sit in it. No extra charge.

(airline smile, airline nod)

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. And he was a "preferred" customer.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 01:17 PM
Nov 2018

Imagine what a Coach customer would get.

BTW, according to Delta, a service dog had lost it and crapped up a seat, the floor and the wall of the plane and no one cleaned it up.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
9. I don't buy this 'service dog' line
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 02:57 PM
Nov 2018

Service dogs have comprehensive training. If a dog isn't even housebroken, it is not a service dog.

There are plenty fake service dogs-- pets that people claim are service dogs to bring them into places where dogs don't belong.

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