Posted on 09/17/2007 1:02:17 PM PDT by Daffynition
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through a security turnstile at an Ohio airport. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out.
Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo. Three other people were with them.
The entourage arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight Sunday to find the terminal closed. The only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars — not the easiest exit to squeeze through when you are traveling with boxed-up animals, Hanna said.
"I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round," he said.
Hanna, 60, pushed the flamingo's 2-foot-by-3-foot compartment into the turnstile, then continued pushing while straddling the crate.
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“Hanna joked that the next time he flies through the airport, the biggest animal he will bring is a gerbil.”
That is just too much information for me...LOL
Richard Gere will be jealous. ;-D
Never take a flamingo to the airport and never go on the Merv Griffin set with a hawk.
Never get stuck in a revolving door with a hawk and a squirrel.
In my best Maxwell Smart voice,” Ahh the old,’... trying to put the square box in the revolving door,’ trick again.”
That was no flamingo, that was my wife!
''No, honestly dear, I'm late because I got stuck in a turnstile with a flamingo.''
Did you hear the one where Jack Hana, a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo walk into a bar...
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