Man alleges Delta employee urinated on luggage
Social media is a weapon in the hands of the disgruntled.
The yellow menace?
Take the case of Sy Haze, who, in a YouTube video, claims a Delta employee vindictively urinated on his luggage.
Is it true? Did a Mr. Haze actually fly on Delta? It seems so.
Delta answered Wednesday via an email that got caught in my spam filter. I found it Thursday; here’s what it says:
“We are talking with the customer to apologize for the misdirected bag and secure information on the condition in which his bag was returned to identify a cause and offer resolution.”
Haze alleges, in text accompanying the video, that he was flying from London to Minneapolis when an airline employee almost immediately divested him of his luggage, which traveled from London to Boston, back to London, back to Boston and then — four days later — to Minnesota.
Somewhere along the way, someone urinated on it, says Haze, though I didn’t spot any yellow-tinged garments among his camouflage fashion collection.
Haze laments the lack of scratch-and-sniff video technology: ”[The video] doesn’t do it justice as you cannot smell the stench of urine thru the lens.”
It may smell, but that doesn’t prove a Delta employee actually soiled it. If it is human waste, Haze’s bigger problem may be that he has a fondness for fondling urine-soaked garments on camera.
In other airline-related chicanery:
- Customers are asking for refunds after the crew of a Virgin Atlantic flight mistakenly sent a “wake up you [bleep]” message to passengers.
- A man wearing panties and high heels was allowed to fly aboard a U.S. Airways flight but a football player was arrested over a saggy pants dispute.
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41 comments Add your comment
Neet Gibbs
June 23rd, 2011
6:38 am
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bigpopapump69
June 23rd, 2011
6:38 am
i work there and i can attest that there are alota monkeyshines goin on out there on the tarmack ! it is literly a 3 ring circus . if your bag even makes it to its final destination its an f’n miracle .carry 1 carry on thats it .
moto
June 23rd, 2011
7:49 am
That probably explains why Haze was wearing his wife’s panties and high heels in the second story
John Lawrence
June 23rd, 2011
8:38 am
My bag was left on the tarmack in Atlanta. Soaked when it arrived at my house.
Sally
June 23rd, 2011
9:13 am
Never flying Delta ever again! Never traveling through Atlanta ever again! Spending a night in the Atlanta airport was an absolute nightmare. If Delta flight had taken off on time this wouldn’t have happened. Gate attendants and Delta service desk people were abhorrent. There is no need for me to ever pay for their services again. And, FYI, their CEO makes about 252% more than their employees (Check the CEO database yourself!) This is what happens when you run a greed based enterprise.
Albert Lansing
June 23rd, 2011
12:14 pm
Would the urinator be considered FBI’s No. 1 most wanted?
Bama Dawg
June 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
I’ll bet most of you folks defending Delta haven’t flown them lately – they absolutely suck and could care less about the customer – even though I’ve flown over 800,000 miles with them. Anw why should they get a pass on providing lousey service just because the are based in Atlanta?
carly
June 23rd, 2011
3:33 pm
I guess Delta has an employee moral problem. Found a great site to post about travel adventures like this one at airlineslodgingetc.com
MECQ
June 30th, 2011
9:33 pm
The employees of DL feel so entitled. That attitude carries over to the way they treat their customers. I was recently on a DL flght in economy class. I needed to take some medication, and TSA had taken my bottled water, so I rang the bell for service. One hour later I arrived at my destination and no one had come to assist me.When I brought it to the flight Attendant’s attention she balked at me; mean mugged me and continued to thank us for flying DL. I have not and will not fly DL again. I can’t wait for SouthWest to get into the ATL market. They’re going to run DL into the ground. Karma is a never ending Beotch.!!!!!!
sparkey 34
July 1st, 2011
12:24 pm
how do u actually know that they did what u say? i feel like if u didnt see it with ur own eyes, how can u say someone did it,if u not seen?