Ah, airports! These are modern-day fight clubs where travellers are most of the time dueling with either visa issues, immigrations, jet lag, long queues, and, of course, hitting the ultimate level baggage weight limits.
Let’s not shy away from admitting that we all have faced the issue of overweight luggage at some point of time in our travel career. It’s an upsetting scene especially if we have to pay a hefty sum for that while travelling. However, in such cases all we do is request the airline staff to waive off or reduce the extra cost unlike this Chinese woman who started throwing a tantrum at the Milan Airport in Italy over the luggage being overweight!
The Chinese tourist, when told that her suitcase was overweight and she'd need to shed some load or cough some extra euros, she chose a third option: rolling on the floor in protest. Like Literally.
The video went viral and garnered all kinds of responses online.
According to a video that went viral on social media in June, a Chinese woman can be seen at the Milan Airport in Italy rolling on the floor like a toddler and shouting all because she was stopped at the boarding gate for her baggage exceeding the permitted weight limit. The airport staff gave her the option to either remove some clothes from her bags or pay an extra amount but it seemed like she did not want to either.
Typically, in such cases a person would choose one of these options and move ahead, but shockingly, the woman is seen in the clip rolling on the floor like a kid throwing a tantrum. She can be seen knocking her hands on the floor, kicking her legs, and shouting. Even the staff of the airport look surprised and confused wondering what to do. In the background we can also see other passengers making a video of her. They look half-concerned and half-amused, as airline staff tried to reason with her.
But reason had clearly gone on a vacation of its own in the video it seems!
This video sparked a debate on social media soon being shared. While some people had hilarious reactions, calling the woman ‘cockroach lady’ because of her drama, others were sympathising with her or even doing psychological diagnosis on her tantrum. Seems like the woman was already having a tough day and the overweight luggage acted as a cherry on the top! Who knows.
Reportedly, the airport staff managed to calm her down and booked her on another flight.