A grandmother on holiday was left stunned after she was almost arrested after refusing to pay for a tuna sandwich she returned on an international flight earlier this month.
Lily Ifield described the mum as “soggy”, “cold” and inedible when she ordered the $11 snack on a Jet2 flight from London to Turkey in November. 3, she told Sun. She said when it came time to pay, she refused.
After the low-cost airline landed in Bodrum – a city in southwestern Turkey – four officers armed with guns and batons stood by the plane to escort the 79-year-old grandmother off the plane.
The cabin crew were reportedly fed up with her refusal to pay for the sandwich even though she claimed she had already paid about $63 for four mini bottles of wine that she drank with her daughter to tide over their anxiety in the sky.
“We had no idea what we had done. “I was turning away from people, saying ‘I think I got arrested for a sandwich,'” Ifield said.
According to Ifield, the flight attendant told the British resident to “shut up” and shut up, but she came back saying “sorry, I can talk as much as I want”. We were being treated like convicts for a bap [sandwich].
When women are met by armed police in a foreign country, they are “trembled” and initially had no idea that the police response was over a fish sandwich.
Ifield’s daughter suggested that maybe she was being arrested because someone put drugs in their luggage, she told the Sun.
To add to the confusion, airport police reportedly made Ifield walk “miles” around the airport. The journey was distressing for the elderly woman, who claimed she needed a new knee and used a walking stick. When she tried to ask for an update on where they were going, the officers reportedly said “I don’t speak English, you don’t speak English.”
Even her daughter was shocked at how the incident seemed to have escalated.
“My daughter said, ‘look, my mom just sent a sandwich — what’s that for?'” Ifield said.
Eventually, when the officers realized the drama was over an unpaid sandwich, they decided to walk away from the whole ordeal.
“It only ended when they suddenly realized how silly the argument they’d been called was and told us ‘just go.’ They were clearly embarrassed,” Ifield said.
The New York Post has reached out to Jet2 for comment.
Ifield said the experience ruined her vacation.
“We were so upset that we stayed in our room for four days. We felt sick with worry. It ruined our party. All over a tuna flip sandwich. No one would have eaten it,” Ifield said.
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