A passenger was filmed seated in economy, seat belted into his middle seat, just urinating while aiming at the safety briefing card in the seat pocket in front of him. It appears that the window seat beside him is empty. The man can be seen looking around somewhat furtively.

There are plenty of stories of passengers – usually drunk – urinating at their seats. There’s not usually video of it actually happening. I won’t actually embed the video here, because reasons. However if you actually want to watch a passenger urinate at their seat, you can have at it.

This appears to have been filmed on board a Turkish Airlines Airbus A321 (not a 321neo).

• The red headrests match.
  
• The seat belts and the seat back entertainment screens that have a controller beneath them do as well.
  
• The tray tables and seat back pockets match, too.

Last year, an American Airlines first class passenger was caught urinating and ‘flicking the bean’ after downing 9 jack and cokes. A man urinated on a seatmate during an American Airlines flight to Delhi back in March. And in one of my favorite cases, an American Airlines passenger had to be told that there was a lavatory on board and not to just use the seat and that man claimed not to be drunk ‘just chewing gum’. Meanwhile, British Airways had to tell staff to stop urinating in their cargo holds.

At Frontier Airlines – the ultra-low cost carrier, attracting passengers who are attracted to ultra-low cost carriers – there’s a clear compensation value. If you are urinated on by another passenger during a flight, that’s worth a $75 voucher towards future travel.

When noting these incidents, I like to draw lessons – either for how to behave as a passenger, how to manage the behavior of others, or what airlines might do to improve the overall experience.

In the 1994 film Speechless Michael Keaton tells Geena Davis about the importance of a “You see, Timmy.”

At the end of every Lassie, Timmy’s mom would say to him, “You see, Timmy…”

– She’d teach him a lesson.

It was always hopeful, always had heart. That’s what his voters are waiting for.

At the end of each episode of Son of the Beach, Timothy Stack’s Notch Johnson would repeat the formula, only winding up with non-sequiturs (“Oh, hi teens. Notch Johnson here. Tonight’s show
was about..”).

Here the best I’ve got is… maybe, don’t do this as a passenger? You see, Timmy…