A disgusted and irate New Zealander believes her Auckland home has been hit by "huge clumps" of human feces dumped by a passenger plane flying overhead, The Daily Mirror reported on Monday.
Karen Bass told a local paper on Sunday that her home and silver car were covered in trails of excrement pushed out from a plane. Her home sits directly under the flight path for planes flying into Auckland International Airport.
"When I walked out of my door this morning and I saw it, I thought 'an airplane s*** on us," Bass said. "You open the door and it smells like s***. I'm absolutely disgusted at the moment. The amount of c*** everywhere is horrendous."
Bass said she absolutely believes that the brown stains, which also covered her walkway, were human feces.
She has collected a sample and intends to get it independently tested.
A spokeswoman from Airways New Zealand said that "it's not something we would know about" and suggested Bass call the airline to complain, The Herald On Sunday reported.
Because it happened overnight, Bass did not know which airline had flown over her home as she slept and her call to complain to Airways NZ was "fobbed off", she said.
But a resident who lives in rural Auckland says waste dumping is not uncommon.
The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said planes had dumped waste on his Karaka home at least three times, as recently as a month ago.
He had complained to the Civil Aviation Authority, but gave up after years of fighting the agency.
Peter Clarke, an aviation expert, said that the feces - like debris dotting Bass' home and car could be several number of things, including bird droppings, but admitted that "nothing is impossible".
"The tanks on the aircraft can leak, they've been known to leak but it's a very uncommon occurrence," he said.
