re: Delta flight turned back due to passenger having diarrhea through entire aisle of plane

Friend,

In my younger days, I was onboard a Greyhound bus from New Orleans to New Haven. It was probably in Chattanooga, or thereabouts, that we picked up this sickly, old man. Immediately, it was obvious he was fecally incontinent, as the bus filled with a horrid odor the moment he stepped onboard. Despite multiple attempts at reaching the toilet, by the time we were in Cleveland, TN, the aisles literally were flowing with feces. The smell was even more awful than when we left Chattanooga.

Our journey stopped in Cleveland. An ambulance took the old man and a new bus came to us. I will never forget the smells experienced on that journey. A truly sad experience, it served as a learning experience for me -- to see someone who probably had served valiantly in World War II, here, broken and without control of such a basic bodily function, forgotten by the world, shipped away and then hauled away by an ambulance.

Yours,
TulaneLSU