Couple on 10-Hour International Flight Realizes They’re Sitting in Someone Else’s Urine

Mystery urine is at the root of an incident on a recent from Bangkok to .

straight from the New Zealand Herald, which reported this week on a Wellington couple’s ultimately successful push for a refund after they unknowingly spent far too many hours in the company of a stranger’s piss.

The incident allegedly happened on a flight on Dec. 30, with the two unidentified passengers first noticing a liquid they presumed to be spilled water on an airline-branded pillow. Additionally, a duty-free bag, which the couple said was holding approximately $70 in various items including a headphone case, was also wet after being placed on the floor in front of their seats.

Deeper into the flight, a passenger discovered “a pair of children’s underwear” under a seat, prompting a chilling revelation.

“Now we know that we have been sitting in urine for a 10-hour trip,” one passenger the Herald.

Though the passengers say they were initially met with pushback over their more-than-reasonable request for a refund, their efforts did indeed end up resulting in exactly that.

Complex has reached out to Qantas Airways for comment. This story may be updated. In terms of positively puerile pee puns, the New York Post already And in case you were wondering, yes, we do have .

Of course, sitting in someone else’s piss isn’t the wildest thing to have happened on a plane, not even this year. As we covered when breaking down how relentless 2024 has already been when it comes to , an Alaska Airlines flight was recently forced to make an emergency landing after a door plug blew out in mid-air. Similarly, 2023 was filled to the brim with .

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