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For the second time in a week, an airline passenger decided to urinate on a plane without bothering to go into the toilet.

On Tuesday, French actor Gerard Depardieu, relieved himself on the floor a his upcoming flight from Paris to Dublin. According to witnesses, the inebriated actor got up as the plane was taxiing for take-off, announced he had to relieve himself—he used other words—but was told by the flight attendant that he’d have to sit down and wait. Instead, he got up and urinated on the carpet. He then quietly sat down.

The “dumbfounded” crew turned the plane around and went back to the gate. The flight was delayed two hours while the carpet was cleaned. No reports of arrest or even if Depardieu was taken off the plane. In fact, the airline, Cityflyer, posted the following two tweets:

“As you may have seen on the news, we are busy mopping the floor of one of our planes this morning…” and “We’d also like to remind all passengers that our planes are fully equipped with toilet facilities.”

Last week, an 18 year old potential future member of the U.S. Olympic Team, also inebriated, urinated on the floor of an airborne Jet Blue flight right near a sleeping 11 year old girl. He was arrested and kicked out of the development program for the Olympics.

What do you think? Overreaction? Underreaction? Specail treatment?

(Frank II)

Update on August 19, 2011 by

Frank@OBOW

French actor Edouard Baer, who was flying with Depardieu on the day of the incident, said Depardieu wanted to apologize for the incident and explain that he was not drunk but actually suffers from a prostate problem. He said the incident was humiliating for Depardieu.

Baer also said that Deaprdieu offered to clean it up.

We also learned that Depardieu was removed from that flight and caught a later one to Dublin.

A note to Mr Depardieu….here in America we have a product you may be interested in. It’s called “Depends.”

(Frank II)