ATHENS – A passenger upset about the toilets in a ferry from Crete to Athens – an 8-hour ride – accosted and assaulted a crew member as another rider jumped in to help the seaman, state broadcaster ERT said.

Details weren’t given what was wrong – whether the toilet wasn’t working or had some other problem – but the man was upset enough to confront the crew member and complain about it as the tension grew.

The crew member tried to calm the passenger but the confrontation escalated and the two began battling, the report said, as a second rider jumped it to try to quell the disturbance and a video on TV showed men arguing, one with his shirt torn off.

The ship continued its route to Athens and the police weren’t called, the report added. Greece’s ferries are packed during tourist season and the height of summer despite soaring prices making them unaffordable to many families.

In another incident involving a Greek ferry, the Captain of a vessel was arrested and then fired after a video showed it was departing from the port on the island of Andros during gale-force winds as a car was trying to get on board.

In September, 2023 a prosecutor brought criminal charges against an island ferry captain and three of his crew over the death of a passenger trying to jump on board as it departed, pushed back into the sea. There’s been no report where that stands.