Topic: Woman sits in urine-soaked airplane seat
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Sat 12/22/07 12:52 AM
Edited by cruisin on Sat 12/22/07 12:52 AM
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14893222/detail.html


WINCHENDON, Mass. -- A Winchendon woman said an airline did not help her after she sat in a urine-soaked seat on a West Palm Beach, Fla., to Boston flight on Sunday night.

"I was sitting maybe 30 seconds to minute and realized that my pants were soaked," Jennifer Castellano said.

Castellano said she went to the lavatory to check her jeans and long sweater.

"I then realized I was saturated in urine from the smell," she said.

Castellano said a flight attendant told her someone had gone to the bathroom in the seat during the previous flight.

"A flight attendant told me that on the previous flight a man had urinated on himself in that particular seat. And I said, 'I'm not sitting on a three hours flight soaked in someone else's urine. That is absolutely disgusting,'" Castellano said.

Castellano took off the wet clothes, wrapped herself in a blanket and changed seats. When the flight arrived in Boston, airliner personnel said they could not get her luggage.

"I get off the plane in Logan, I had to walk through the terminal in a blanket to retrieve my bags from baggage claim. It was humiliating, degrading to walk through an airport dressed like this. They did not offer me any clothes vouchers, to get my bags from baggage claim. They did nothing -- absolutely nothing," she said.

An Air Tran representative said it is against federal regulations for airline personnel to retrieve passenger luggage. They said Air Tran is investigating the incident and will refund Castellano the purchase price of her ticket and refund the cost of the damaged clothing.


LMAO, she must have been "pissed off."

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Sat 12/22/07 12:56 AM
ROFLMAO

pms64's photo
Sat 12/22/07 01:05 AM
It's better to be pissed off, then to be pissed on.
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Sat 12/22/07 01:15 AM
LOL, looks like Air Tran got her wet.

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Sat 12/22/07 01:45 AM
I dont know about yall but Id be beating the **** out of someone for that. explode grumble

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Thu 12/27/07 07:04 AM
If she SAT there lets just say she must have enjoyed it. If it was MY TICKET...OMG!! someone would have been coughing up MY AIRFAIR to FIRST CLASS.

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Thu 12/27/07 03:44 PM
This is strange, the flight should have taken a delay for this, 10 mins at the most to change the seat along with a rep to meet her at the gate to resolve the issue..

However this is Air tran, so what do you expect..sick

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Thu 12/27/07 03:50 PM
id have sat in the stewardess' lap and pissed that way i didnt have to be the only one wrapped in a blanket!!! :tongue:

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Thu 12/27/07 03:52 PM
wow, that was interesting.

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Thu 12/27/07 10:08 PM
They knew a passenger from the previous flight had wet the seat and did nothing to change it before the next flight?????? I don't blame this woman for being upset.

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Fri 01/04/08 07:12 AM
cruisin.....

you said she claims she was sitting maybe 30 seconds to a minute and realized that her pants were soaked. Then she went to the lavatory to check her jeans and long sweater and realized she was saturated in urine from the smell.


Something is not right here. If she had on a long sweater and jeans, how could both be saturated in urine after sitting in the urine 30 seconds to a minute? For her clothing to have been saturated, it would mean that there had to be a pool of urine there. Surely, someone would have spotted it. What is the story of the person sitting next to her? Did that person see what had to be a pool of urine?

I don't believe her story; I think there is a bit of truth there. The seat might have been wiped off quickly and not disinfected, so that when the woman sat there, she picked up the urine smell. I think she overreacted or who knows, maybe she saw an opportunity to build something small into a big case in the hope it might net her a big settlement from the airlines.

Sure the airline was amiss in not cleaning the seat properly, but again, something "smells" with this woman's story.


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Fri 01/04/08 03:56 PM
My best friend is paraplegic. He had an accident on a plane once...he was too embarassed to say anything.

I guess the woman had a right to be angry. But some things in life are unavoidable.
Maybe that woman was embarrassed for a moment, but I wonder how she would like to be like my friend??

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Fri 01/04/08 09:21 PM
i'm with you Ken.many elderly are embarrassed when these things happen and say nothing.I'm sure the seat was cleaned but just not great..shame on this woman for clogging up the court system.

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Fri 01/04/08 09:33 PM
laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh