• @thehatfox
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      10 months ago

      And how the fuck does the rotting fish bag get through security?

        • amigan
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          2310 months ago

          DID YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK ME WHAT MY ROTTING FISH CARCASS IS FOR UNDER THE ADA. I’M SUING YOU

      • eric
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        10 months ago

        Because security is more concerned with finding weapons and drugs. Customs/Borders Enforcement is the group tasked with finding prohibited plants and animals, and they don’t usually start looking for those things until you get to the destination country.

        • @[email protected]
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          1310 months ago

          I had a block of cheese one time, they went crazy about it. X-rayed it a bunch. They really didn’t like that cheese.

          • eric
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            2310 months ago

            That was probably because of the density of the cheese. I had the same thing happen to me with a bag of gnocchi once. They really thought it was something illicit because they had a big armed security guy on either side of me while they had me open it, and they looked really disappointed to find out what it really was.

          • @[email protected]
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            I got stopped with a Panettone once. Thankfully this was in EWR so the Italian-American gate agent understood why I’d be smuggling one to the west coast.

            • @[email protected]
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              610 months ago

              It was a 5lb block of cheddar from UW Provisions, in Madison Wisconsin. Which, in their defense, is a very large block of cheese.

      • @slaacaa
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        2310 months ago

        Security theatre

        • @PlutoniumAcid
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          710 months ago

          Obviously with emphasis on “theatre”

      • @Frozengyro
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        In the US, they can’t stop you from bringing a fish through, even if it’s rotting. The airline can deny you boarding, if they even know about it ahead of time, but TSA isn’t in charge of any of that.

        I see now this is from AMS to DET, I’m not familiar with Amsterdam’s security or rules, so there is a decent chance my first paragraph is incorrect in this situation.

          • @flubba86
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            Drink the fish while on the plane. Problem solved.

      • @grabyourmotherskeys
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        510 months ago

        Might have been sealed up airtight and they said it was smoked fish or something. Still, to have maggots, it’s almost impossible that it didn’t come through unless vacuum sealed. Yeah, that’s how I should, I mean they could have done it.

        • @ABCDE
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          110 months ago

          Some cheese has maggots by design.

          • @stellargmite
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            210 months ago

            “Maggots by Design” is a good name for a metal band . Pink logo

        • @daed
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          39 months ago

          I dunno, depends on how long it’s been rotting…

    • @SuckMyWang
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      610 months ago

      I’m not paying $7 for a packet of lays

      • @Mr_Blott
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        4610 months ago

        You don’t need to fly to the grocery shop too, Taylor, for fucksake

      • @beetus
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        FYI, lots of people have different grocery needs so a broad statement like “grocery trips are $N these days” is pretty meaningless without the context of your purchases or needs.

        A better example might be “my grocery bills are up 50% this year with no changes to what I buy!!”

        My grocery budget has changed the last few years, but from $65 average to now $85 average. That said the supplemental food I buy (occasional orders out, etc) has risen significantly more, probably upwards of +60% at times.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        010 months ago

        I fly for work. Two at least scheduled before August.

    • @44razorsedge
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      310 months ago

      I never liked flying and now have even more reason not to!

  • @grabyourmotherskeys
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    I was stuck on a runway in very humid weather. They finally turned the AC on after a couple hours and we started to get condensation dripping on us from the, I’m guessing, never cleaned ceiling.

    And that’s why I always fly in a thin hoodie now.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    1610 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The “absolutely gross” situation saw the Delta flight forced to make a U-turn about an hour into the nine-hour trip from Amsterdam to Detroit.

    Passengers reported the back of the plane was left teeming with the larvae that it later emerged were emanating from a rotten fish.

    The passenger added that one of their carry-on bags was next to the “disgusting” one, and that the suspected culprit was still seated and did not exit the plane at the end of the flight.

    “They were all sitting around in the crew area laughing and talking when we had been on the plane for close to three hours with not even water offered,” Kelsey said.

    Delta - described as a “leader in domestic and international travel” on its website - confirmed rotten fish and maggots were in the bag and apologised to the passengers.

    “We apologise to the customers of Flight 133 AMS-DTW as their trip was interrupted due to an improperly packed carry-on bag,” the airline told Sky News.


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  • @Alexfart
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    1210 months ago

    I HAVE MAGGOTS IN MY SCROTUM (and carry on)

  • @aggelalex
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    310 months ago

    What a thing to read while listening to Schnittke