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Posted: 2018-06-05T23:54:18Z | Updated: 2018-06-05T23:54:18Z Liquid Poo Rains On Woman And Son Sitting In Car | HuffPost

Liquid Poo Rains On Woman And Son Sitting In Car

The Canadian woman claims the feces shower, believed to have come from a passing aircraft, left her with conjunctivitis in both eyes.

A woman in Kelowna, British Columbia, is haunted by an experience she had nearly a month ago when she was sprayed by “liquid poo.”

Susan Allan said that on May 9, she and her adult son were sitting in her car at a stoplight when the feces came pouring in through the sunroof.

“While we were sitting there, our car was inundated with liquid poo falling from the sky,” Allan told GlobalNews.ca.  “I had it on my face, down my shirt, my entire car, and the vehicle beside us were all covered in it.”

Allan said she and her son, Travis Sweet, watched the excrement fall as a large passenger plane flew overhead.

The actual sensation of crap hitting their skin was something Travis will never forget. First, he said, he felt a cold sensation hit the side of his face and shoulder.

“Then the smell hit my nose,” he said. “I almost vomited instantly. It was terrible.”

Allan contacted Kelowna Airport for answers.

An administrator for Transport Canada told her the government department would investigate the possibility of frozen lavatory waste, called “blue ice,” falling from an aircraft, according to The Globe and Mail newspaper.  

A spokesperson for the airport told Fox News that as of Monday, “there is no connection to an aircraft as Transport Canada’s investigation is still ongoing.”

Allan claims that, as a result of the feces rain, she now has conjunctivitis in both eyes.

“I feel they should compensate me for the injuries. What if it had let go in a big chunk? What if it went through my son’s head and killed him? What if it came through my head and killed me?” Allan told CBC. “This could be a much different circumstance than just poop in my eye, you know?” 

Transport Canada said aircraft with washroom facilities on board are equipped with an enclosed sewage holding tank that is designed to be emptied at special facilities at airports.

“It is possible that a valve malfunctions and allows some leakage of the tank’s content,” the agency told The Globe and Mail by email. “If this happens, the liquid seeping from valves freezes and adheres to the outside of the aircraft when the aircraft is flying at high altitudes.”

The department said it does not keep statistics of “blue ice” incidents, but the Kelowna International Airport told CTV News  that it believes the liquid poo came from one of three planes that were passing over that area at the time.

Allan said that her husband fixed her car’s air conditioning so she doesn’t have to drive with the sunroof open.

She wants whoever was responsible to pay for her car to be professionally cleaned, even though she and her granddaughters have already scrubbed it down.

“We used bleach and peroxide and cleaned the poop that was there. Then they just covered it with perfume — so now it smells like Calvin Klein One,” Allan quipped to CBC.

She might be joking now, but Allan is still shaken by her stinky situation.

“All we want people to know is that it was quite devastating to be covered in poop, and I hope it never happens to anybody else,” Allan said.

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Florida Poopers
Robert Predmore(01 of05)
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Robert Predmore was arrested in September, 2015, after he allegedly broke into a bar to steal alcohol and also pooped on the floor. (credit:Collier County Jail)
Katelyn Patricia Felegi(02 of05)
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Katelyn Patricia Felegi, 18, was arrested in April 2015 after allegedly breaking into and damaging her ex-boyfriend's home. A Pinellas County Sheriff's deputy who was driving Felegi to jail said she allegedly defecated in the back of the squad car. (credit:Pinellas County Sheriff's Department)
Patricia Ann Jamison(03 of05)
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Patricia Ann Jamison, 49, was arrested in April 2014 after deputies say she pooped in an elevator at the St. Lucie County Courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. (credit:St. Lucie County Sheriff's Dept.)
Gregory Matthew Bruni(04 of05)
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Gregory Matthew Bruni, 21, became a pooping legend of sorts in January 2013 when he allegedly climbed naked onto a family's home in North Fort Myers and jumped onto the homeowner. He then allegedly ran inside the house, knocking down a TV and spilling the contents of a vacuum on the floor -- which he later drank.Bruni is accused of pooping in two spots on the floor,but not before masturbating in the living room and rubbing clothes belonging to the residents on his face.
Brenda Schumann(05 of05)
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In January 2013, police in Vero Beach, arrested Brenda Schumann, 51, after she allegedly defecated and urinated on the floor of her home after after discovering her husband in bed with another woman.She later told a deputy: "I found him in bed with a naked chick, what was I supposed to do?"