Now, nonsensical articles aren’t exactly new to me. In fact, I’ve touched and handled a multitude of headlines that made me question:
“What’s humanity, exactly?”
But every once in a while, I chance upon an article that’s so unique, so incomprehensible, so… utterly ludicrous that it makes me question:
“Why does humanity still exist?”
This article, in case you’re wondering, doesn’t belong to either of those categories. Rather, it’s one that makes me question:
The topic in question?
Well, according to Channel News Asia, a 21-year-old woman in Florida flushed her “emotional support” hamster down an airport toilet after the animal was reportedly “refused passage to a flight”.
…
What happened?
According to the woman, a student by the name of Belen Aldecosea, a Spirits Airlines employee had advised her to either flush the hamster (named Pebbles) down the toilet, or let it go outdoors.
“She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Ms Aldecosea said.
“I was emotional. I was crying. I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.”
Incidentally, she did not have any family or friends in town to retrieve her pet dwarf hamster from the airport. Neither were there any rental cars, as it was the holiday season.
Ms Aldecosea also said that she didn’t want the hamster (which has been certified by her doctor as an emotional support animal) to run around helpless in the cold or get killed by a car. As a result, there was only one choice.
“I didn’t have any other options,” she said.
It was supposedly cleared
Ms Aldecosea revealed that she had earlier called Spirit twice, in a bid to confirm Pebbles’ ‘flight application’.
“Our reservation representative, unfortunately, did misinform the guest that a hamster was permitted to fly as an emotional support animal on Spirit Airlines,” spokesman Derek Dombrowski wrote in an email.
However, Spirit denied allegations that their employee recommended the airport toilet as a disposal option.
“To be clear, at no point did any of our agents suggest this guest (or any other for that matter) should flush or otherwise injure an animal,” said Mr Dombrowski.
According to the Miami Herald, Ms Aldecosea is currently contemplating whether to file a lawsuit against the airlines, over their “conflicting responses which pressured her into flushing her pet”.
Not the first
The case soon drew comparisons to a similar one that happened recently. Just a few weeks back, a United Airlines passenger tried bringing her “emotional support” peacock along for the ride.
Her six-hour attempt, however, was ultimately turned down.
Ms Aldecosea’s lawyer, Adam Goodman, disagreed, stating that the cases were “vastly different”.
“This wasn’t a giant peacock that could pose a danger to other passengers. This was a tiny cute harmless hamster that could fit in the palm of her hand,” he said.
Where does poop on a plane go?
Being really intrigued, I googled ‘Where does poop on a plane go’?
As it turns out, it’s actually pretty simple. Pressing the flush button opens a valve in the bottom of the bowl, exposing the contents to a pneumatic vacuum. That vac then sucks the load down the plane’s sewer line into a 200-gallon holding tank, complete with vapors and all.
When the plane lands, the ground crew proceeds to hook the airline’s tank to a service vehicle, before emptying it and sending the vehicle to a waste-disposal site. And in case you’re wondering, you’re not allowed to empty the tank while the plane’s in the air.
Thank goodness, or there will be a whole new meaning to the term Meteor Shower…
Like… really?
Honestly, swimming in a tank full of human manure doesn’t sound like the best way to go…
On another note, try to avoid such situations, people. Make sure to seek proper clarifications first, and double check just in case the first employee had a drink too much and can’t tell bee from see.
After all, you don’t want your spirit animal to end up in a shitty situation, right?
And I didn’t mean that literally.
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