Family kicked off airplane due to 'bad odor'

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone on this thread, outside of the rare voice of reason, actually a DC urban mom or dad? It’s like watching a slow-motion alt-right train wreck. And yet, I can’t look away. Anyway, serious question: Can anyone point me to previous incidents in which a family or individual has been kicked off an airline flight for body odor before?

I am willing to be that it has happened in the past.
The difference now is that everyone has a cell phone camera to air their grievances on social media in order to claim victimhood status.

[Anonymous]

I ad a dream about this last night. I dreamt I had to fly or walk near those people and they smelled like ethnic food and I thought oh that's what that smell everyone complained about was.

That said, why were they too stinky to board the original flight but not too stinky to board the next day even though their clothes were now a day older since their luggage moved on without them? Something doesn't add up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone on this thread, outside of the rare voice of reason, actually a DC urban mom or dad? It’s like watching a slow-motion alt-right train wreck. And yet, I can’t look away. Anyway, serious question: Can anyone point me to previous incidents in which a family or individual has been kicked off an airline flight for body odor before?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2018/08/07/unpleasant-as-it-is-travelers-sometimes-have-to-face-up-to-flying-with-foul-smelling-fellow-fliers/#5af491381b83

[Anonymous]

See also
https://qz.com/945163/you-can-get-kicked-off-a-flight-for-smelling-bad/amp/

[Anonymous]

Even an emergency landing..
https://people.com/home/andrey-suchilin-smelled-bad-forced-emergency-landing-necrosis/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are very obviously ultra-orthodox. If the airline decided to remove them from the plane probably they weighted the chances to be sued by other passengers vs being sued for discrimination. I second other people opinion, traveling with kids sometimes put you in ‘smelly situation’. Maybe the kid vomited or had an accident earlier.

Are you suggesting that people can’t reek of foul body odor on their own? Have you ever travelled to a third world country?

Third world country ?? How about you stick to this country and it’s legions of smelly douchebags?

Americans as a group are pretty good with daily showers and deoderant.

[Anonymous]

Happened previously something similar in a flight toOntario
https://m.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/nigerian-woman-thrown-off-plane-after-white-man-sa/3414880/

[Anonymous]

Nigerian family was kicked off UA flight for pungent odor in 2016. They claimed racism as the real reason. All of this is irrelevant because both BO and prejudice exists. We can never know if bias influenced the perception of BO and led to harsher treatment of individuals honestly suffering from some minor hygiene issues. I know as a woman suffering hot flashes, that I can go from fresh to putrid in minutes. Although I always carry spare clothes on a plane just in case I feel gross and want to feel better for my own benefit.

[Anonymous]

What about people who fart all the time? It is usually White women who have the stinkiest farts and if you are stuck in an airplane with them on a transatlantic flight you are doomed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about people who fart all the time? It is usually White women who have the stinkiest farts and if you are stuck in an airplane with them on a transatlantic flight you are doomed.

it's not our fault it's our diets have you ever mixed two weeks of kale salads with stress potato chips and gummy bears at the airport

[Anonymous]

This is mostly in response to the post about the Nigerian family who thought they were being discriminated against. BO is a cultural difference Americans feel justified in not tolerating. Foreigners should know that not only do we dislike body odor, we judge people over it, and will treat you differently because of it. It's different than say, if you call a shopping cart a trolly, or if you make an awkward social faux pas, or wear clothes we don't. Exposing others to your body odor is truly offensive here, in that it makes people physically ill.

I think this latest example actually proves it's not discrimination, it's the bad odor.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

I am good without germaphobia. More people should be afflicted by germaphobia and we all would be better off.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny people are confused about how the smell would dissipate without changing clothes in a day.

I think the base tones of funk were removed with showers and products. They may have washed and dried clothes in the hotel-I’ve done it overnight. They may then have decided to buy deodorant. But just removing the base funk would improve the situation.

We didn’t bathe as often where we grew up (not America) but we also didnt smell. You need to bathe as often as you need to bathe to not smell. Different foods smell different on bodies the world over. But BO is universal.