DELTA FLIGHT FORCED TO TURN BACK WHEN RAINING MAGGOTS FELL ON PASSENGER HEADS
I remember the first time I learned about how disgusting maggots are when I was a kid at summer camp. I and two others got garbage duty, and one of the cans literally exploded with maggots. I’ll never, ever, forget that smell in the summer heat. And I won’t get into the cleanup details, as the memory will make me heave. So it is with the utmost gratitude that I wasn’t on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit earlier this week. Because it was raining maggots, inside the plane, onto passengers’ heads. Seriously, I might have made a beeline for the emergency exit!
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SOME IDIOT HAD STOWED FISH WRAPPED IN NEWSPAPER IN THE OVERHEAD BIN
So how in the hell did this happen? Apparently, some idiot, tool and flying malingerer had stowed fish wrapped in newspaper in the overhead compartment. I can’t imagine how no one noticed the smell. But they definitely noticed when it started raining maggots onto people’s heads. I don’t even want to imagine the scene. The flying malingerer passenger claimed the fish, but the captain shortly announced that they would be headed back to their point of origin. This is where I’m fighting dry heaves even writing this, imagining the smell and people brushing maggots out of their hair.
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Even worse is the fact that it started raining maggots about a quarter of the way thru the flight. In other words, the passengers on the plane flew halfway only to go nowhere at all. But Delta didn’t stinge on taking care of the maggot rained on and inconvenienced passengers. They all made it onto the next available flight. Without the fish wrapped in newspaper or the raining maggots. The plane was taken out of service for some deep cleaning. But the passengers also got free: 8,000 air miles, money back for hotels, and 30 bucks for dinner.
Presumably, no one ate any fish.
