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Whatever the political context in your country, know that at least one politician is fighting the good fight. Rangwe MP Dr. Lilian Gogo addressed the Kenyan Parliament to ask for a ban on farting on all airplanes.
The MPs were in session to discuss the National Assembly Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing report, which aims to amend the convention on offensive and criminal acts committed on board an airplane. Dr. Gogo highlighted that there is one factor that hadn’t even been brought up, despite having the potential to cause plane crashes or violent incidents in the air, Nairobi News reports.
And that factor is flatulence, or farting, as we’re prone to call it on an everyday basis. According to Dr. Gogo, farting is a common occurrence on long-distance flights, but it also happens more times than it’s necessary on shorter flights. It causes irritability and discomfort, and is ultimately a security matter because it can lead to fights which, in turn, can lead to a plane crash. See how that escalated?
“There is one irritant that is often ignored and this is the level of farting within the aircraft,” the MP told her colleagues. “There are passengers, who literary irritate fellow passengers by passing bad smell and uncomfortable fart. If there is anyone given irritant that makes people fight on board, it is the fart, it is terrible within the plane.”
The MP believes farting is “done progressively” so it can be prevented by someone else other than the person doing it. Before you laugh, know that the MP has a plan – and it involves special training for the airline staff, a bigger supply of medicine and what could only be described best as total invasion of privacy.
“We need special training on aircraft crew so that they provide medicines like bicarbonate of soda to passengers after meals and drinks have been served. We should also have paramedics, who are trained in basic first aid included in the international and local flights,” Dr. Gogo says. “If I am the only one who has experienced this, then I think the rest of us are very lucky. We should have basic provisions of medicines such as Eno other than paracetamols on the flight.”
In addition to cabin crew training and buying more medicine, Dr. Gogo says airlines should have access to all passengers’ medical history, in order to know which foods and drinks to serve. Speaking of drinks, she also told her colleagues something ought to be done about the amount of liquor served on a plane, because fliers tend to booze it up more in the air than on the ground.
Add booze to farting, and you see how things could really blow up in the cabin.
Despite Dr. Gogo’s efforts, she was informed she should have presented her amendments to the committee before the report was concluded.
And that factor is flatulence, or farting, as we’re prone to call it on an everyday basis. According to Dr. Gogo, farting is a common occurrence on long-distance flights, but it also happens more times than it’s necessary on shorter flights. It causes irritability and discomfort, and is ultimately a security matter because it can lead to fights which, in turn, can lead to a plane crash. See how that escalated?
“There is one irritant that is often ignored and this is the level of farting within the aircraft,” the MP told her colleagues. “There are passengers, who literary irritate fellow passengers by passing bad smell and uncomfortable fart. If there is anyone given irritant that makes people fight on board, it is the fart, it is terrible within the plane.”
The MP believes farting is “done progressively” so it can be prevented by someone else other than the person doing it. Before you laugh, know that the MP has a plan – and it involves special training for the airline staff, a bigger supply of medicine and what could only be described best as total invasion of privacy.
“We need special training on aircraft crew so that they provide medicines like bicarbonate of soda to passengers after meals and drinks have been served. We should also have paramedics, who are trained in basic first aid included in the international and local flights,” Dr. Gogo says. “If I am the only one who has experienced this, then I think the rest of us are very lucky. We should have basic provisions of medicines such as Eno other than paracetamols on the flight.”
In addition to cabin crew training and buying more medicine, Dr. Gogo says airlines should have access to all passengers’ medical history, in order to know which foods and drinks to serve. Speaking of drinks, she also told her colleagues something ought to be done about the amount of liquor served on a plane, because fliers tend to booze it up more in the air than on the ground.
Add booze to farting, and you see how things could really blow up in the cabin.
Despite Dr. Gogo’s efforts, she was informed she should have presented her amendments to the committee before the report was concluded.
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