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Passengers fly into a panic over stowaway mice
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:44 am
by Apoptosis
Source:
MSNBC
The screams were louder than the roar of the engines when more than 100 passengers on board a Saudi plane fought off an invasion by 80 stowaways: mice.
Al-Hayat newspaper reported on Friday that the mice escaped from the bag of a traveler on the internal Saudi Arabian Airlines flight and started falling on the heads and scurrying between the feet of panic-stricken passengers.
"An hour after it took off from Riyadh, the aircraft was at an altitude of 28,000 feet when passengers were surprised by the mice..." the paper quoted Omar al-Jarrah, an airline official as saying.
The authorities detained the owner of the bag after the aircraft landed in Tabuk, in the north west of the country, on Wednesday to investigate how he had managed to board the aircraft carrying live mice, it said.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:53 am
by Illuminati
LOL... they shouldn't detain the owner of the mice, they should be questioning their security staff at the departed airport.
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:53 am
by Dragon_Cooler
oh great, terrorists, now mice, what next?!?!?!
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:10 am
by Sporg
What??? Exploding terrorist mice!?!
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:16 am
by Sporg
Actually, thinking about mice and what they can do to electrical wiring... they could potentially wreak havoc on an aircraft. Granted it wouldn't be immediate...
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:21 am
by kenc51
Dragon_Cooler wrote:oh great, terrorists, now mice, what next?!?!?!
Watch out..........The're coming to an airport near you...
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:28 pm
by Sporg
Oh, that is truly priceless!
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:40 pm
by DMB2000uk
Where did you get that from, I've seen it before but cant think where!
Dan
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:43 pm
by kenc51
DMB2000uk wrote:Where did you get that from, I've seen it before but cant think where!
Dan
I posted it here over a year ago.
I though it was apt for this thread hehe