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When You Gotta Go, You Don't Gotta Go Crazy
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This has happened to you. You're flying, you're sitting in coach, you gotta go to the restroom, and there's a queue at the back of the plane. And you look forward and see the first class lavatory empty. You ask the flight attendant if you could use it, and sometimes it's yes, sometimes it's no. In the case of this passenger, who was told no, it was such a problem that he began making threats to kill the pilot and beat people up, which led to an emergency landing. That's quite a meltdown. And he was wrong to threaten people and deserved to be taken into custody, but that doesn't mean that planes should have only one or two lavatories for everyone in coach and have a lav or two reserved for the privileged few; when your bladder's bursting and you're going to have to wait a long time while there are facilities available and off-limits to you, you're going to at least be annoyed. (WCBS-TV/New York)
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