Smelly pax
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Smelly pax
Now what about flying with smelly armpits as a pax 
Smelly passengers to get boot
Johannesburg - Passengers with smelly armpits could be banned from travelling in taxis and public buses if new draft laws are adopted by the city council, the Sowetan reported on Friday.
According to proposed new by-laws a bus or taxi driver can throw out a passenger who is dirty or smelly.
The by-laws will also give the driver the power to refuse passengers who are drunk or who have contagious diseases.
The proposed by-laws are open for public scrutiny and could be promulgated at mid-year.
The laws also spell out how drivers are expected to behave.
Smelly passengers to get boot
Johannesburg - Passengers with smelly armpits could be banned from travelling in taxis and public buses if new draft laws are adopted by the city council, the Sowetan reported on Friday.
According to proposed new by-laws a bus or taxi driver can throw out a passenger who is dirty or smelly.
The by-laws will also give the driver the power to refuse passengers who are drunk or who have contagious diseases.
The proposed by-laws are open for public scrutiny and could be promulgated at mid-year.
The laws also spell out how drivers are expected to behave.
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I presume than nation will grind to a halt
A few years ago I once had the experience of travelling in a "taxi" during the evening rush-hour in Cape Town. I was packed in so tightly I couldn't breathe but it was just as well given the stench! Can't imagine though that the taxis will ever be selective about whom they carry as most of the natives would not be allowed to travel.
Given that this is an aviation forum I guess I should say something to do with the subject - my home town of manchester UK has many flights from Pakistan. Rumour has it that the cleaning ground staff have to wear special suits straight out of a chemical warfare scenario - not because of any specific threats of anthrax etc, but because of the inhuman mess that awaits them. How true it is I don't know, but I have often heard that rumour from many people working at EGCC.
Given that this is an aviation forum I guess I should say something to do with the subject - my home town of manchester UK has many flights from Pakistan. Rumour has it that the cleaning ground staff have to wear special suits straight out of a chemical warfare scenario - not because of any specific threats of anthrax etc, but because of the inhuman mess that awaits them. How true it is I don't know, but I have often heard that rumour from many people working at EGCC.
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OK, OK We must be competing fo the worst ride........Heres my contribution.
The company I work for here has some discretion as to flight time. Sometimes on Contract work We end up with extra time and with that comes some deadheads. A couple years ago rather than waste things, the Boss whos a Soccer Nut, loaded up his whole team and We went too Puerto Rico so they could play the Navy team at the base there. Afterwards it was serious Beer and garbage food with an RON at the Naval Base.
Next Morning all aboard the 412/206L and back too St thomas with a group of folks including one Brit and One Irish dude who had done their share of Pizza and Guiness within the last twelve hours. Those two alone accounted for me almost driving the 206L into the Ocean with the odor . Im not kidding, I flew half the trip out of trim just so that I could breath.......
Never Again
The company I work for here has some discretion as to flight time. Sometimes on Contract work We end up with extra time and with that comes some deadheads. A couple years ago rather than waste things, the Boss whos a Soccer Nut, loaded up his whole team and We went too Puerto Rico so they could play the Navy team at the base there. Afterwards it was serious Beer and garbage food with an RON at the Naval Base.
Next Morning all aboard the 412/206L and back too St thomas with a group of folks including one Brit and One Irish dude who had done their share of Pizza and Guiness within the last twelve hours. Those two alone accounted for me almost driving the 206L into the Ocean with the odor . Im not kidding, I flew half the trip out of trim just so that I could breath.......
Never Again
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Come on George Tower and Bert ... you guys are making a mess of my pants as I nearly wetted it ... and I am not interested in PPRUNE today ... cricket, siux nations - never mind Leeds - Man united ... eisch ... post more 
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But will the pax be able to refuse the taxi driver, on account of them being downwind of his armpits ....
Don't forget folks - you can have the windsheild open but all the air blows under your arms and back into the cabin.
Doesn't it?
Less than 72 hrs left in ZA after a three month stay ....
Don't forget folks - you can have the windsheild open but all the air blows under your arms and back into the cabin.
Doesn't it?
Less than 72 hrs left in ZA after a three month stay ....
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I recall flying up to Windhoek back in '89 at about the time when Untag were there. The American that I was travelling with and myselfs seats were two in front of one of the locals going home. The stench was terrific. The American fellow, normally quite blase about things like this called the FA and asked to be moved. She shot a look behind us and moved us right to the back well away from this chap. She apologised and said that there was not much they could do about it. We were just damn glad that the flight was not jampacked otherwise I would have to have got a lot more pi$$ed than I did - it would have been the only way to make it without puking.
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Gang Green On A Hot Summers Day.....
I don't thing anything anything can prepare you for the utter pugnant stench of Gangerous rotting limbs on a hot summers afternoon. I will gladly ride the 5 O'Clock Sowetto taxi bus for the rest of my life if I don't have to do another flight life that.
The smell starts way way down the back of the plane and slowly slithers it's way forward into the cockpit. There is no escape from this glastly odour as it surrounds you and penetrates your clothes. Months and many washes later you still catch a wiff, still lingerring, refussing to die.
You try everything you can, full air, airconditioning, depressurise the f..ker but to no avail - you can not rid the plane of this foul stench.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!
The smell starts way way down the back of the plane and slowly slithers it's way forward into the cockpit. There is no escape from this glastly odour as it surrounds you and penetrates your clothes. Months and many washes later you still catch a wiff, still lingerring, refussing to die.
You try everything you can, full air, airconditioning, depressurise the f..ker but to no avail - you can not rid the plane of this foul stench.
NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!
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NAAAAAAH! Smelly Pax? You guys aint seen nothing yet! Who of the old Douglas Racer fraternity (SAAF, Bloemspruit) can forget the honk that 18 burly, sweaty parabats can produce by means of gut-gas just before takeoff?? Man, those army kitchens were hell bent on cooking up a storm for these guys, I'm sure they purposely cooked cabbage for these troopers, knowing that the honk travels forward in a Dak!!
Yep, the smell of gangrene over the Sudan, on a hot sticky afternoon, bouncing around CBs, or the leaking body bags over Ovamboland at treetop height!! Or how about the wet Alsatian guard dogs, who start waking up towards the end of their Cape Town -Walvis Bay Trip!! Yeuuckkk! Who said flying was romantic?
Yep, the smell of gangrene over the Sudan, on a hot sticky afternoon, bouncing around CBs, or the leaking body bags over Ovamboland at treetop height!! Or how about the wet Alsatian guard dogs, who start waking up towards the end of their Cape Town -Walvis Bay Trip!! Yeuuckkk! Who said flying was romantic?
