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<\/p>\nTHE daughter of All Blacks star Richie McCaw hilariously confronted a rude barefoot passenger on a recent flight, with an adorable hand-written message.<\/p>\n
The now retired rugby ace was on a flight to France for the Rugby World Cup, with his wife Gemma, who has represented her country at the Olympics in field hockey.<\/p>\n
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The pair were travelling with their three daughters, four-year-old Charlotte, two-year-old Grace and five-month-old Ella.<\/p>\n
The family were unimpressed when a passenger sitting behind them stuck their bare foot up on the armrest of one of their seats.<\/p>\n
Gemma shared footage of the offending body part on her Instagram stories, initially asking her followers: "Would everyone be okay with this situation? Or do I say something?"<\/p>\n
She then shared another update, adding: "Lovely pedi colour but I think I'll have to put my foot down for this one."<\/p>\n
However, Gemma claimed she didn't want to get involved in a confrontation, leading to daughter Charlotte coming up with her own method. <\/p>\n In a further update, the Olympian showed her young daughter's notepad, in which the child had written a note, saying: "Please put your foot down."<\/p>\n Gemma added: "I don't want to put my foot in it so Charlotte thought of trying this approach."<\/p>\n A lot of people left the family words of support on a photo of them that was shared to Gemma's Instagram before they took off.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n One said: "Have fun and get that person to move their feet arghhh."<\/p>\n Another wrote: "Was this before foot gate? Seriously you held it together so well, your little one should have pushed it off with her elbow."<\/p>\n A third added: "I hope you said something to the foot person, that is disgusting!"<\/p>\n Fortunately the situation on the plane was eventually resolved by a cabin crew member.<\/p>\n In a final video shared to Gemma's stories, she said: "Update on the foot gate.<\/p>\n "Hostess stepped in and asked her to kindly remove her foot from the seat. All is well."<\/p>\n People intruding other people's space with their bare feet is a common issue on planes.<\/p>\n Sun Online Travel's resident flight attendant told passengers that they should always tell cabin crew members if they find themselves in that situation.<\/p>\n They said: "Firstly, you should never have your feet out on planes, it's disgusting. The floors are gross, especially in the toilets.<\/p>\n "Secondly, your body parts shouldn't leave the small section of seat that you've paid for.<\/p>\n "There's absolutely no excuse for your feet to be in other people's space.<\/p>\n "If someone's putting their body parts in your space, please tell the flight attendants and we'll absolutely sort it out for you because there's really no excuse."<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newspress-collage-23159077-1690213916328.jpg\")
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