Vomit: Couple Finds Full Barf Bag in Seat-Back Pocket on Flight
In DepthFrom the check-in counter to the cockpit, the tarmac to the cabin, airline employees work hard. These jobs are pretty thankless, but this lack of consistent, warm-n-fuzzy emotional fulfillment is not grounds for failing to carry out one’s responsibilities. Especially if those responsibilities involve bodily fluids.
A Sacramento couple tells local CBS that their Hawaiian honeymoon ended a special freebie on their United flight: not complimentary pretzels or peanuts (this is United, after all), but a full barf bag tucked into the seat-back pocket and concealed by a blanket.
To the passenger who puked in-flight and failed to hand the bag over to a flight attendant: go to hell. Just go right now, seriously, before you do any more damage. And to the post-flight cleanup crew who failed to notice an entire blanket stuffed into a narrow seat-back pocket: what is wrong with you?
The incident is stomach-turning (no pun intended), but it gets worse with more details: