THIS is the moment two arrogant cruise ship passengers demand a ship turns around after it showed up late for departure.
Footage shows two late arriving passengers begging a captain to let them come on board as they stood stranded on a fenced platform.
The man and woman can be heard shouting: "Sir Captain, please."
But with the gangway already hauled in, the latecomers were denied access, local media reports.
The incident took place at the port of Bari in the Puglia Region of southern Italy on Tuesday.
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The ship they wanted to get on, despite running late, is understood to be the MSC Splendida, a £430million, 3,900-passenger luxury cruise ship operated by MSC Cruises.
Ugo Patroni Griffi, president of the Southern Adriatic Port System Authority, apologised to the holidaymakers, saying: "I am very sorry about this episode."
He explained: "Obviously, it is impossible for cruise ships. They have precise schedules and are very expensive operations."
But viewers are divided over the footage, with some saying it was right for the ship to depart.
One said: "If you're late, the ships leave, the planes leave, the trains leave.
"Do we really always want to wait for someone who is late?"
A second added: "How can it be assumed that a ship with thousands of passengers and a need to respect maritime traffic schedules has to adapt to the rudeness of some latecomers?"
But conversely, a third wrote: "They could have picked them up with a lifeboat."
MSC Cruises, a Swiss enterprise, did not comment on the incident.
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