Gross act some cabin crew do to get revenge on rude passengers

It’s a code word flight attendants allegedly use when they want to get revenge on rude passengers, and the act is pretty gross.

Hope Brotherton – The Sun

2 min read

August 1, 2023 - 8:41AM

Several flight attendants have revealed how they get revenge on rude passengers – and it’s not very nice.

Passengers who annoy cabin crew members could end up regretting their decision.

Some flight attendants have been known to use a method called “crop dusting” to punish “vile” passengers, The Sun reports.

This is where flight attendants pass wind in the aisle next to customers who’ve annoyed them on a flight.

Flight attendants typically avoid farting in the galley where their colleagues are taking a break.

The cabin crew members will instead save up their nasty smells and let them out quietly as they walk through the cabin.

Some flight attendants have allegedly claimed to engage in the gross act.

To do this without passengers catching on, they walk slowly up and down the aisle and quietly let out a fart when they pretend to check the overhead cabin bins.

While this may not sound believable, last year several flight attendants took to Reddit to confirm it.

In a thread on Reddit, one person asked: “Is it that common for flight attendants to walk up the aisle and drop a few?”

One said: “It’s either fart near passengers or fart near crew.

“I find the passengers who inconvenienced me. Can’t hold it in.”

‘Crop dusting’ is where (some) flight attendants reportedly pass wind in the aisle next to customers who’ve annoyed them on a flight.

Another added: “Crop dusting belongs in the cabin, next to the most vile of all passengers.”

A third joked: “We don’t call it the good old aluminium fart tube for nothing.”

And according to Jacob Rosenberg, a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, flights actually make people fart more.

He told the BBC: “The pressure drops and the air must expand into more space.”

But this isn’t the only way flight attendants have got their revenge on passengers they hate.

An anonymous ex-cabin crew member dished out her revenge tactics in a post on Reddit.

Responding to a question about what “dirty little secrets” flight attendants keep, the unnamed woman said she often had a cheeky way of keeping rude passengers in line.

She wrote: “I used to be a flight attendant and when someone was really rude I’d just go to the computer we had to reset the in-flight TV screens and I’d keep resetting theirs sporadically so that they couldn’t watch their movie – very petty of me I know.”