Family kicked off airplane due to 'bad odor'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I travel a lot in 3rd world countries (although Europeans often smell like BO too). I thought I’d seen it all but the worst was in turkey. A woman wearing maybe 5 layers of clothes had a stench so bad it turned people’s stomachs. People did vomit on the plane due to the smell. Every time she walked past us to use the bathroom we gagged. Washing up wouldn’t have worked because I think it was the clothes. People complained but because it was an international flight with so many languages people mostly kept silent.

When I was in engineering college at UMCP we would get new foreign students who were literally like this. They would come in wearing the same unlaundered clothes every day too so they just got stinkier and stinkier. Eventually they learned- not sure how exactly.

My friend in college was an international grad student originally from Poland, but had grown up mostly in the UK and had studied abroad in the US as a high school student. Our college had an “optional” but not really “optional” orientation for international students and my friend was SO OFFENDED that they talked about stuff like showering regularly and using deodorant. He was all “who doesn’t know that stuff” - at first. Apparently by the 3rd day of orientation, he realized exactly why they discuss that stuff and that people weren’t taking it seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I travel a lot in 3rd world countries (although Europeans often smell like BO too). I thought I’d seen it all but the worst was in turkey. A woman wearing maybe 5 layers of clothes had a stench so bad it turned people’s stomachs. People did vomit on the plane due to the smell. Every time she walked past us to use the bathroom we gagged. Washing up wouldn’t have worked because I think it was the clothes. People complained but because it was an international flight with so many languages people mostly kept silent.

When I was in engineering college at UMCP we would get new foreign students who were literally like this. They would come in wearing the same unlaundered clothes every day too so they just got stinkier and stinkier. Eventually they learned- not sure how exactly.

My friend in college was an international grad student originally from Poland, but had grown up mostly in the UK and had studied abroad in the US as a high school student. Our college had an “optional” but not really “optional” orientation for international students and my friend was SO OFFENDED that they talked about stuff like showering regularly and using deodorant. He was all “who doesn’t know that stuff” - at first. Apparently by the 3rd day of orientation, he realized exactly why they discuss that stuff and that people weren’t taking it seriously.

Some people are probably used to those smells, but no one here is.

[Anonymous]

Some food smells sticks to the clothes. If these people had eaten raw garlic, or meatloaf with garlic, their clothes/ bedsheets would be smelling terribly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Better BO than bad perfume. Maybe they had cologne/perfume on. I would never say anything, but when my seatmate has perfume on I am dead from a migraine before landing and they just crawl over my body to get out wondering what happened and proceed into the world to murder other people with floral poison.

Somebody who wears a heavy dousing of a heavy perfume on a plane should be kicked off. But a spritz on the wrist of a light perfume shouldn't be a big deal to anyone. It would be like complaining about the smell of another passenger's chewing gum or breath mint.

Gag inducing BO and unwashed body/clothes = kicked off. Or at least it should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.

Oh come the f*ck on! How did the dumb shit even get into college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.

Oh come the f*ck on! How did the dumb shit even get into college!

yeah thats quite the tall tale

[Anonymous]

Have you ever truly been stuck next to somebody with severe body odor? It induces retching. There was one dude at our gym that the front desk finally had to intervene. Nobody could get away from the smell.

[Anonymous]

I was behind a woman in Whole Foods yesterday who had 'dirty' smelling hair. These women that think they can go days without washing their hair: you reek. Wash your damn hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.

JMU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a European living in US I find that usually in US there is a general germophobia. Hey, most parts of the world shower 1-2 times per week or even less..

And they stink. Bathing shouldn't be optional.

But as people we need to be more tolerant of people smelling like people. So many posters here think people should have no smell or have a fake perfume smell. And the folks that complain about the smell of someone’s head from not washing everyday should probably just never leave the house. I get really bad BO can smell bad, but expecting people to be shower fresh at all times is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a European living in US I find that usually in US there is a general germophobia. Hey, most parts of the world shower 1-2 times per week or even less..

And they stink. Bathing shouldn't be optional.

But as people we need to be more tolerant of people smelling like people. So many posters here think people should have no smell or have a fake perfume smell. And the folks that complain about the smell of someone’s head from not washing everyday should probably just never leave the house. I get really bad BO can smell bad, but expecting people to be shower fresh at all times is ridiculous.

That's fine for walking around but if you have to sit right next to someone like that for 5 hours on a plane its a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time an article like this is written, I support the stench purge

Be clean before you get on a plane people

I agree. I have no idea whether this particular family smelled, but the last time I flew, there was a woman sitting in front of me who absolutely reeked. Every time she shifted in her seat, a revolting odor wafted off of her. It was BO plus something completely rancid. Probably just days or weeks of not bathing. I didn't complain about it, but my God, was I searching for a seat elsewhere. You could see everyone around her lurching away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you get kicked off the airplane for smelling, then a guy like this certainly should be banned from flying. This guy is disgusting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nextshark.com/eva-air-american-passenger/amp/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt that any of the passengers complaining about them even knew that they were Jewish. They just didn't want to be stuck on a long plane ride with a horrible odor like that and they sure as heck didn't want to be seated next to them.

It’s 100% plausible that they had awful body odor but you are doing your argument no favor by denying that their being Jewish wasn’t obvious. He’s wearing a kippah, her hair is covered and she’s wearing modest clothing. They are religious and it’s quite obvious.

DP. I am Jewish. I really don't care what religion or ethnicity someone is - if they haven't bathed, and they reek, then nothing will change that fact. Stop being an apologist. They apparently smelled awful. No one I know smells bad. But they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some people smell. A percentage of those people will be Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, whatever. Air fares are expensive and the air on planes is already not great. I am 10000% in favor of booting people who stink. You owe it to those around you not to smell bad. Wash your body, wash your hair, wash your clothes, brush your teeth and tongue, and use deodorant. Don’t overdo perfume or hair products. If your smoke, Febreeze yourself and chew some gum.

THIS.