Wanted to post this on the "Top Five NO-NO's on your overseas flight" thread, but there was no 'post a reply to this message' button.

This guy got what some would say he deserved...

http://tinyurl.com/yaylw7

Great story! I am quite certain I sat next to this guy on my last flight =)
I saw the thread the other day about long flights and what to do and I almost made a comment about how the plane gets quite smelly toward the end of the trip! My wife says on Lufthansa
they call it "Derfunkyschmellin"

yeah, that schmellin sure is funky!

Finally, some common sense in a courtroom.

Having travelled around the tropics, I have arrived at various airports in a sweaty condition but never had a problem with smell. Sweat does not smell immediately. It is the body's bacteria multiplying that makes it smell, which is made worse by not having showered that day. Also the smell from "dirty" clothes is amplified by the water vapour carrying the smell.

I did feel a bit sorry for the guy till I saw the words "corporate lawyer." Demanding 2200 euros ($2819) for being one night late was undoubtedly a scam which the German courts would not have stood for, so it was just as well he did not turn up.


I note BA's small print: British Airways stipulates that the airline may refuse to transport passengers "if carrying you or your baggage may affect the comfort of any person in the aircraft."

It sounds a bit far reaching to me, as for instance a screaming brat certainly affects the comfort of passengers for many rows around it. So do people who are well practised in the art of elbow karate who keep jabbing their elbows into people's ribs (like I had on my last 12 hour flight to Thailand). Where does it stop if they don't like someone?

&quot;The appeals court delivered a judgement Wednesday by default against the man when he failed to attend the hearing. The man, <b>who told the court he was stuck in traffic</b>, has the right to appeal.

After being &quot;caught in traffic&quot; you can imagine what he would have smelled like had he made it to court.

I wonder if he could have found a way to purchase a shirt from someone who had one on board. Even for a corporate lawyer, this has to be embarrassing.