Flight Attendants Get Unusual Complaints About Farting & Other Funny Stories [Video]

The flight attendant mom of a reddit user told him of the funniest complaint she had ever received. Reportedly a passenger passed her a note, scrawled on a napkin, complaining about a fellow passenger who was farting and stinking up the plane.

In an image posted by Garwee20, the note read: “I don’t know if you can make an announcement, but if you can you should say that whoever is farting in the area of rows 10 to 12 should definitely see a doctor because they might have ass cancer.”

Someone was farting on a plane so a passenger gave this hilarious note to a flight attendant https://t.co/C9UuIkQuU0 pic.twitter.com/sQf7WX6Buv

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 17, 2016

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the flight attendant didn’t actually make an announcement and there is no other information available about the flight, but hopefully the passenger managed to have a respite from the smell invading his or her airspace from the farting passenger.

The image of the handwritten note has since gone viral on reddit with many funny comments, including one user, Jon_Locked, who said his roommate was recently guilty of farting excessively and at one stage was “being a bit obnoxious and proudly passing the most rancid gas I’d ever smelled.”

“Like a combination of sh*t covered tires and dead bodies thrown over an open flame. I told him he needed to see a doctor because that smell shouldn’t be produced by any human. I was being serious. He just kept laughing and was very amused by it.”

“Day later he doesn’t feel well and goes to the doctor and is diagnosed with gastroenteritis. So I was right. This story does not amuse him.”

Another reddit user, yellingsnackbar, went on to praise the seats on Amtrak for locking up your farts as you travel.

“I used to commute on Amtrak and their seats kept your farts locked away nicely. I’d drive mean old beer and coffee farts into them for an hour and then get up and crop dust the whole car on almost a daily basis while trying not to laugh the hole [sic] way out. I miss that.”

Reportedly this isn’t the first news about farting causing problems in the air. Last November some 2,186 goats were the cause of a 747-400 freighter plane making an emergency landing in Bali Denpasar after their combined flatulence reportedly set off the smoke alarms. Now that is a frightening thought.

Passenger on a plane writes a handwritten plea for help about someone who was “farting in rows 10 to 12” https://t.co/qBZrFN9S8T

— The Freakshow (@freakshow1055) January 19, 2016

According to Iafrica, this isn’t the first unusual complaint received by a flight attendant to be reported in the media. Last year a passenger on an Air New Zealand flight also reportedly submitted a rather tongue-in-cheek protest, although this time in no way relating to farting on the flight.

Apparently the passenger had a problem with the airline’s cheese-to-cracker ratio and complained about the lack of sufficient crackers to go with his or her cheese.

Apparently the complaint read, “I’m pretty sure that all Air New Zealand faithful have been having the same struggle as I and so tonight I officially raise this concern.”

“Your cheese to cracker ratio is completely out of whack. I mean I like cheese, I REALLY like cheese but often the best part of the cheese is having it accompanied by a firm and crisp cracker. I feel that there is sufficient cheese to justify at least four crackers.”

However, it must be noted that according to Iafrica it is not only passengers that make unusual and inept remarks as flight attendants also come out with some beauts themselves on occasion.

On a recent Ryanair flight, passengers were informed that the flight from Glasgow to Dublin was going to be delayed by eight hours. When the flight attendant was asked the reason for the flight delay she immediately responded, “The captain cannot take off when we have ice on the wings, and we don’t want to die.”

Obviously passengers were rather taken aback by the flight attendant’s statement with many feeling anger and others obviously amused about the situation. One passenger, Ella Ryan, took a video of the interior of the plane as the flight attendant made the controversial and somewhat terrifying announcement, which is included below.

Reportedly a Ryanair spokesperson apologized for the flight attendant’s controversial statement and said she “would be spoken to.” At least, as far as we know anyway, there was no farting going on in the plane’s cabin at the time.

[Photo via Flickr by Francisco Martins/CC BY-NC 2.0]