What's the most WTF thing you've experienced or seen during a flight?

I travel quite a bit and have seen a few weird things, but on a recent trip from Vienna to Venice,

things were taken to a whole new level. So we're about 20 minutes into the flight when I noticed

that a woman sitting across from me had a Persian cat in one of those cat carrier bags.

The plane was really warm and the cat was sitting in the bag panting.

Well, the lady decided to let the cat out of the bag to let it cool off a bit.

After trying to shove the cat's face up into the air vents for a minute, the cat literally

freaked out. It was clawing at everything, attaching itself to

the seats in front, jumping around, hissing, well, you name it. This thing went crazy. Anyway,

after about five minutes of more of the same, the cat completely lost it. Trying to climb the seat

in front and wait for it, fell over dead. We couldn't

believe what had just happened. The owner was trying to shake the cat around a bit to wake it up,

but it was a goner. For the duration of the flight, she was sat there holding her dead cat,

sobbing quite profusely. That's just awful. I would be completely paranoid bringing a pet on a

plane, and not because of anything like this happening, just in general. On a red-eye flight,

just as I fell asleep, a woman passed out in the middle of the aisle and hit my leg. I was so

doped up on dramamine, I didn't even realize it and

fell back asleep. The flight attendants put an oxygen tank on the floor and put the tank

masks over her mouth. Apparently, they used my hand to hold it in place. So when I woke up a few

minutes later, I was like, why am I holding an oxygen mask over someone's face? Hey, you're literally out

there helping save lives in your sleep. I was on a Gulf air as in Persian Gulf flight as a kid

in the late 80s, and a Pakistani family, a few rows behind me and coach lit up a barbecue. It was one of

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