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Woman Says Poop From A Passing Plane Fell Onto Her Face And Gave Her Pink Eye
A woman in Kelowna, Canada contracted pink eye after her car was pelted with human poop from an overhead plane.
Susan Allen and her son Travis were waiting at a traffic light on May 9, enjoying the spring weath- er with the sun- roof open. Then a nasty slush of sewage and lava- tory chemicals started raining down on her car and the car idling next to her, cover- ing Allen, her son, and the other driver in human waste. It was
truly a shitstorm.
“It was in my sun- roof, it was all over my seat, it was in my face, and down my shirt," Allen
told Vice."It was disgusting.”
Allen added that the smell was so bad, Travis,
21, immediately vomited. When she looked up through the poop- soaked sunroof,
she saw a plane flying above.
Allen drove straight to a car- wash after the incident and hosed down her- self, her son, and her car. She told the Star that the experience was "disgusting, degrading, [and] demoralizing."
She also came down with con- junctivitis — com- monly known as pink eye — from coming in contact with poop. Her eye swelled up to the size of a golf ball. In the doc- tor's note
obtained by Vice, the physician blames "being inundated with sewage" for the infection.
Transport Canada is investigating the incident — since the Kelowna airport was nearby, the loose sewage is believed to have fallen out of a passing plane.
According to CTV News in Vancouver, Allen isn't the only vic- tim of a turd bombing. Another man in Kelowna found his car cov- ered in feces on May 12.
In a statement
to Gizmodo, Transport Canada said that the department is "collecting and reviewing recent incidents" and "given this review is ongoing, we are not in a posi- tion to provide more details at this time."
Allen kept quiet about the experi- ence for almost a month because she didn't want to tell people that she was (literally) shit on. But when Transport Canada delayed on taking action, she decid-
ed to go public. In an interview
with Global News, she said "an apol- ogy would be nice" and requested com- pensation for her pink eye.
The sewage tanks in airplane bathrooms are supposed to be dumped in specif- ic airport facilities, but according to Transport Canada, it could leak and freeze to the plane's exteri- or. Known as "blue ice" because of the disinfectant's bright blue color, the frozen disin- fected poop can
melt off the plane and fall onto inno- cent bystanders as the aircraft descends.
Airlines have been having a crappy year, from accidentally send- ingadogto Japan instead of Kansas City, to making emer- gency
landings when a passenger was partially sucked out of a broken window. And last year wasn't much better — even if passengers were less likely to die in a plane crash in 2017, it seems they were more likely to be treat- ed like garbage.
But few things are as disgusting as being inundated with feces.
"All we want peo- ple to know is that it was quite devastating to be covered in poop," a distraught Allen told
the Star. "And I hope it never happens to any- body else."
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