Posted on 03/02/2017 10:13:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
There is a common litany of why airline flights are delayed or canceled ranging from equipment issues to weather, but a flight from San Francisco to London suffered a four-hour delay Wednesday when a mouse was spotted aboard the plane.
The flight – British Airlines Flight 285 – finally departed at Heathrow 2:56 p.m. local time and was expected to finally arrive in San Francisco at 1:10 p.m. PST.
The passengers were forced to change planes after the elusive mouse was spotted and finally departed after a four-hour delay.
An airline official issued a tongue-in-cheek response in San Francisco when asked about the delay.
“With service and prices this good, we know almost everyone wants to fly with us to San Francisco… but on this occasion there was one very small customer who we had to send back to the gate,” said airline spokeswoman Liza Ravenscourt in an email sent to KPIX.
“Everyone holding their own passport is now on their way to California, and we are sorry for the delay.”
The delay has triggered an avalanche of responses on social media.
That mouse could have been a ‘mole’.
That was ‘Archie’, my Comfort Mouse. I bought a seat for him next to me. He’s housebroken and had to use to restroom. So what have you done with him?
a flight from San Francisco to London.................finally departed at Heathrow 2:56 p.m. local time and was expected to finally arrive in San Francisco at 1:10 p.m. PST.
This writer is confused.......................
Or a vole................
They should have just set a few traps near the food prep area.
Lunch escaped.
That’s right. Most people have never heard of Voles.
They look very different than Moles.
Moles, voles,
He didn’t pay his toll..................
The human female subconscious and the mouse must be somehow linked. All women react the same way when they see a mouse — jump up on a chair and scream (women that is). Poor mouse/rat is usually scared to death from all of the screaming. Almost feel sorry for the little critters.
Related topic: nasty little creatures — the mouse — they poop where they eat. And profusely too.
We had one take up residence in our home last year and she met a semi painless end (I hope) — a whack to the back of the head from a mouse trap.
Ya know, the ancient Romans used to raise dormice as a delicacy. However, "their" dormouse (central European?) is akin to an arboreal squirrel, and not the British/English dormouse "mouse" of say, Lewis Carroll, or Heathrow and British Airlines.
Yeah, tastes like raccoon.
“...’a flight from San Francisco to London.................finally departed at Heathrow 2:56 p.m. local time and was expected to finally arrive in San Francisco at 1:10 p.m. PST.’
“This writer is confused.......................”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this CBS editor needs help.
The mouse that roared...The jet that didn’t.
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