'Smelly' man kicked off flight

I can't believe they did that to him . . . are ya ready?



That really stinks ! ! !

So, if he can sue, how about the folks that had to sit next to this fellow? Free tickets for next flight?

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That sounds quite nice, but actually Werner B. himself said such - about the fact that his neighbour - a female - complained about him and he thus missed his connecting flight in LA :wink:

In first instance, his filing of a complaint had failed: it's now going to the highest regional court (from there the other quotes).

The pore man.

That's the pits.

Heaven nose, good hygiene is appreciated on airplanes.

Something sure smells fishy about this guy.

Good for the airline. People who stink like gorilla farts shouldn't be allowed in public.

I think we found Gus..

I had no idea that Gus was German!

He's called Ratzenhofer, hello...

I thought that was Spanish..........

Could have been Austrian.

I wonder if he yodels? I could just imagine him as this:

Sure looks like a stinker to me....

I had to fly to Hawaii sitting behind a guy who was regularly releasing clouds of suffocating noxious vapors. (He also had greasy hair just absolutely loaded with dandruff-- that's just an aside, I know he couldn't really be expected to stay off the plane just because he was suffering from the heartbreak of psoriasis or whatever, but it still added to the overall grossness.) I was wondering if you have any recourse in that kind of situation. I couldn't quite imagine calling one of the attendants over and telling her someone was making me sick with their farting...

that does seem a bit petty huh?

Just because he smelled like body odor?


what do people think we smell like underneath all these toxic chemicals we slather all over ourselves?
Most people would rather put on mercury filled deodorant and run the risk of having problems in their brain stem , then smell like a human?

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You know, this is the type of PC crap slappy was talking about.

So, we're supposed to cater to some guy to stinks to high heaven?




I suppose I need to don my "Obviousman" costume here....

1. you mean to tell me the airline didn't have some miscellaneous T shirts on board for when someone stunk, vomited on themselves, puked, etc?

2. no one on the plane was willing to say...."here I got an extra T shirt in my carry on, be my guest.

3. no one who worked at the airline could make an oj dash through the terminal to the nearest shop that sold T shirts, saying "I'm taking an extra large, put it on Delta's bill, we'll settle up later.

4. the man could not have been handed this T shirt obtained through the above methods, and told "if you want to fly on this plane, go to the men's room, wash your pits, and put on this shirt....you are making other passengers sick."


I guess then the stinkos only recourse would be to sue because "I felt 'less than' when they told me I stunk and was making other people vomit. they were mean to me"

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I'm with Shewolf here. I think its the fellow passenger and air hostess who were guilty of PC crap. Like, oh my god, there's someone on the plane who smells! What next?? Please, sanitize the place so everything is correct and in order again!

Agree with all the Obviousman suggestions tho. Its no fun sitting besides a smelly person, so something coulda been done - but any of those things would have worked. Dont see why they couldnt all just have been pragmatic about it. I mean - one party just slapping rules around on anyone who doesnt exhibit the correct behaviour and the other party suing in retaliation - jesus. Formalisation of life's little troubles gone overboard.

Less rules, more creativity!

I'm of the opinion they ought to have come up with a shirt for him, deoderant, and had him clean up as best he could in the restroom, as has been suggested already. That failing, send him to the baggage department.

you and me edgar, you and me....

nimh, yeah, I see the passengers & crew behaving pc in that they WOULDN'T tell the guy to clean up.

I'm very sensitive to smells....I'm very upfront here, if I was forced to sit next to this guy, I literally would have thrown up.

I don't know if it's because I'm an American or not, but I really really do get sick when I get a whiff of an unwashed body.


So....where's my rights?

Hmm, it was a German plane and we don't have the "right of sitting besides a washed person in a plane" in our constitution :wink:

Actually, in the original report (which was in a regional tabloid, the 'Express'), quoted five spokespersons from different (German) airlines, who all said that usually other measures [as suggested above] are taken ... showing the way to the washroom, soap, ...