EVA, the carrier that takes “Hello Kitty” to a whole new level, just encountered a “Hello Shitty” flight courtesy of a passenger who personifies the word disgusting.
In the age of misinformation, I’ve held off a couple days on addressing this story. I wanted to let the dust settle and see if there was another side to this story. Maybe, just maybe, there were missing facts that would shed a different light on the incident. Instead, corroboration demonstrates the tenacity of the narrative below…and how it is part of a larger pattern of disgusting behavior.
The Timeline
In case you missed earlier reports on this and because I have not written about it yet, let’s first summarize what happened. I’ve taken this account from FlyerTalk member hayzel7773:
- 2.5 hours into the flight, passenger said he needed to use the business class lavatory, claiming he could not fit into the economy class lavatory.
- The crew agreed.
- Three flight attendants plus the purser assisted him to the lavatory.
- About a minute after entering the lavatory, passenger pushed the FA call button.
- FAs opened the door, finding his genitals exposed, but his underwear still on in the back.
- Passenger warned FAs that if they did not help him remove underwear, he would go in his pants.
- As the crew removed his underwear, he spread his legs, exposing his genitals.
- FAs tried to close the door, but passenger objected, claiming shortness of breath from claustrophobia.
- Crew refused to keep the door open, but left it unlocked.
- 15 minutes later he signaled to FAs that he was finished.
- Crew opened the door and found him still seated on toilet with his pants down.
- Passenger stated, “I’m done, you can wipe my butt now.”
- FA objected.
- Passenger verbally assaulted her, saying she promised to do it.
- Threatened to remain on toilet for the remainder of the flight if his butt was not wiped.
- FAs relented, passing him a blanket to cover himself.
- He refused to cover his genitals with the blanket.
- Purser wiped while another FA watched over.
- While the purser wiped, passenger moaned, “Mmmmmm, deeper, deeper.”
- Passenger demanded the purser redo the wiping two times, saying he did not feel clean.
- After demanding a third redo, a FA just pulled up his pants.
- Passenger threatened to faint.
- FAs led passenger back to his seat.
- Later in the flight he had to defecate again; a different set of FAs ended up repeating the same process above.
- Upon disembarking the aircraft with a trio of male ground staff, passenger was asked if he needed help in restroom.
- Passenger responded that he could take care of himself.
