Passengers get naked, pet squirrels: Flight attendants reveal their weirdest passengers

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Passengers get naked, pet squirrels: Flight attendants reveal their weirdest passengers

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Air stewards have seen some strange things.

Air stewards have seen some strange things.Credit: iStock

Previously we have reported that flight attendants hate it when you take forever to decide what you want to drink, walk around the plane barefoot, and get up to use the bathroom just before landing.

If you thought that made the job of cabin crew members sound testing enough, we can now reveal an array of the weirdest things air stewards and stewardesses have seen on their travels, thanks to a confessional Reddit thread.

And more than one story involves passengers removing clothes.

See also: What flight attendants really think about passengers

Relax and enjoy the flight - or get naked

One user who ended up having a game of cards with the cabin crew on a quiet flight said the staff told him they once saw a man "strip down to his boxers because the seat felt bad on his pants".

Another said that their pilot father was once flying the Wallabies home. "They rented out the entirety of first class and the moment the flight reached cruising altitude, stripped down to their boxers," the user wrote. "Allegedly they were some of the most polite patrons he had seen but were just mostly naked."

Wallabies: Polite, but mostly just naked.

Wallabies: Polite, but mostly just naked.Credit: Getty Images

I want what he has

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One flight attendant told of a bizarre fight that broke out between two Asian men, one in his 30s, the other in his 60s, on a flight from San Francisco to Osaka "because the 60-year-old man was not happy that the younger guy was using the pillow from an empty seat".

"The old man kept yelling 'No! One pillow per passenger! No!' and trying to take the pillow away," the user wrote. "The younger guy just had this WTF? [what the f***] look on his face."

See also: Flight attendants reveal their mid-air secrets

Toilet trouble

A user claiming to be a customer service representative for US airline Southwest told how a poor gentleman had pressed the flush in the toilet at the exact same moment the plane hit "a pocket of dead air and dropped like 15 feet": "Everything in the tank proceeded upwards at the speed of gravity. He was… covered. They had to hose him off on the tarmac upon arrival."

Some of the revelations were a little more pleasant, including the one that came from the user's pilot grandparent who had seen "someone petting a squirrel that they snuck into the flight".

Or this one: "Not a flight attendant, but my dad once had David Hasselhoff serenade him and the rest of first class against their will."

But some were plain disgusting.

Careful with the timing of your flush.

Careful with the timing of your flush.Credit: iStock

See also: Things flight attendants hate

Please store your maggots in the lockers provided

"It was a transatlantic flight and halfway through, near the back of the plane, the overhead bin started raining maggots on the passengers in one row," a user wrote. "Just pouring through. One of the other flight attendants on the plane investigated and discovered that a passenger had flown in from Africa and was travelling to the US via Europe and had a whole dead fish filled with maggots wrapped inside a newspaper, apparently a delicacy in some parts of the world."

And finally... one flight attendant recalled meeting two young parents on their first flight who tried to put their baby in the overhead lockers, thinking they were meant for children.

The Telegraph, London

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