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Woman got pink eye after poo from plane fell through her sunroof

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

04:18 11 Jun 2018


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An actual sh*tstorm!

A Canadian woman claims human faeces fell from the sky and into her eyes.

Susan Allen and her son Travis were waiting at traffic lights in the city of Kelowna last month when a smelly substance rained down on them through their open sunroof.

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She told Vice Canada that they was covered in it:

"There was poop falling through my sunroof, all over myself, all over my son, and all over the inside of my car."

"It was gross and I had it in my eyes, I had it in my mouth, and my hair."

She added that the smell was so bad, 21 year old Travis immediately threw up.

Susan said that when she looked up through the poo-covered sunroof, she saw a plane flying over.

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She claimed she ended up contracting conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, and was prescribed eye drops.

Her doctor's note said it was due to being "inundated with sewage from an overhead plane while driving her car."

Transport Canada said it's investigating the incident. One theory is that the airborne poo was "blue ice".

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Sewage tanks in airplane toilets are typically dumped at airports but tanks can leak due to valve malfunctions.

The liquid waste, known as "blue ice" because of the disinfectant's bright blue colour, adheres to the outside of the plane and freezes due to high altitudes.

The frozen disinfected poo can then melt off the plane and fall as the aircraft descends.

Ewww!

 

 


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