In the wake of the recent incident where a flock of geese caused an airliner to go down in the Hudson River, I just read that a vulture smashed through the windshield of another plane. The pilot managed to land safely after all.
It seems like nature is running wild! Last year I read a story about a squirrel causing havoc on a plane. It appears that the pilots on an American Airlines flight from Tokyo to Dallas heard something scurrying around in the wiring above the cockpit. This alarmed them so much that they made an emergency landing in Honolulu, where a stowaway squirrel was found to be the culprit. Fearing the squirrel would chomp its way through wires, the squirrel was removed and promptly killed.
I know, I know...right about now all you animal lovers are saying, “Why did they have to kill that poor little squirrel. It was only doing its squirrel thing, trapped in some wires and trying to get out. They didn’t have to kill it”.
Ah, but perhaps they did. Look around at what’s happening right now. You have a renegade flock of kamikaze geese taking down an entire plane. A groundhog attacked the mayor of New York. Ok, maybe he deserved it more than a little bit, but still. And now a vulture took on yet another plane. Frankly, even more so than flying into a flock of birds, I dislike the idea of some little critter running through the wiring while I’m on a plane; chewing through said wires chills me to the bone.
I’m surprised some other small critters haven’t taken down planes sooner. Small enough to infiltrate planes undetected, chewing through vital instrument panels willy-nilly, any one of various species could have caused massive death and destruction before now.
So perhaps killing the squirrel was an example, and should be a lesson to other animals out there, who appear to be banding together against planes. We’re watching you, and we have exterminators on speed dial, waiting for the next attack.
And we thought we only had to worry about terrorists!
It seems like nature is running wild! Last year I read a story about a squirrel causing havoc on a plane. It appears that the pilots on an American Airlines flight from Tokyo to Dallas heard something scurrying around in the wiring above the cockpit. This alarmed them so much that they made an emergency landing in Honolulu, where a stowaway squirrel was found to be the culprit. Fearing the squirrel would chomp its way through wires, the squirrel was removed and promptly killed.
I know, I know...right about now all you animal lovers are saying, “Why did they have to kill that poor little squirrel. It was only doing its squirrel thing, trapped in some wires and trying to get out. They didn’t have to kill it”.
Ah, but perhaps they did. Look around at what’s happening right now. You have a renegade flock of kamikaze geese taking down an entire plane. A groundhog attacked the mayor of New York. Ok, maybe he deserved it more than a little bit, but still. And now a vulture took on yet another plane. Frankly, even more so than flying into a flock of birds, I dislike the idea of some little critter running through the wiring while I’m on a plane; chewing through said wires chills me to the bone.
I’m surprised some other small critters haven’t taken down planes sooner. Small enough to infiltrate planes undetected, chewing through vital instrument panels willy-nilly, any one of various species could have caused massive death and destruction before now.
So perhaps killing the squirrel was an example, and should be a lesson to other animals out there, who appear to be banding together against planes. We’re watching you, and we have exterminators on speed dial, waiting for the next attack.
And we thought we only had to worry about terrorists!
let's talk about invasive ANTS! Or how about that chimp that was owned by some perfert woman who slept with it and the chimp ripped of the face of her close friend. animals what is going on with anmals today. why can't they be like we were perfect in every way, what 's the matter with animals TOOOOODAYYYY????????????
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