Cicadas Took On Biden's Press Plane. They Won.

Yahoo! ^ | 9/6/21 | Michael D. Shear

[Eleutheria5]

WASHINGTON — The plane set to carry dozens of journalists to Europe to cover President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad was on the runway, ready to take off.

The cicadas had other ideas.

Somehow, the flying insects had filled the plane’s engines, grounding it and forcing Biden’s aides to scramble for another way to ferry the reporters overseas. What was supposed to be a 9 p.m. departure was delayed until 11. And then until 2:15 a.m.

Perhaps it was inevitable, with billions of cicadas flying around much of the eastern United States in recent weeks. In the nation’s capital, where a brood that emerges every 17 years is near its beastly peak, they have crawled up the necks of TV journalists, splattered across car windshields and gotten tangled in the hair of anyone braving the swampy, 90-degree heat.

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[Eleutheria5]

Nature rebels.

[dware]

The Bugaloo Apocalypse

[null and void]

They shoulda let the press plane attempt an Atlantic crossing...

[Eleutheria5]

James Brown, thou shouldst be living in this day!

[cnsmom]

The media needs to mask their planes lol.

[Eleutheria5]

Charles Lindbergh wouldn’t have hesitated. Where’s their sense of adventure?

[mass55th]

I see a SyFy Channel movie coming.

[TexasGator]

“Somehow, the flying insects had filled the plane’s engines, “

I am guessing they flew in?

[Eleutheria5]

They’ll be hours behind the POTUS’ itinerary. If they aren’t there to fawn and suck up, will anyone notice that he’s off his gourd?

[Red Badger]

Hope there were 80 Million of them!.....................

[Eleutheria5]

Let me guess: Mutant Killer Cicadas on a Plane?

[blackdog]

Nature speaks.

[Eleutheria5]

Were they wearing little red hats;D

[Red Badger]

They have little RED EYES!...................

[blackdog]

Nothing Biden does bugs the press.

[Red Badger]

[Army Air Corps]

MAGA Bugs! :)

[JennysCool]

No surprise. Useless, irritating organisms are attracted to other useless, irritating organisms.

[frank ballenger]

Instead of waiting on the runway the plane engines could have sputtered, gasped, been shut down and restarted and then shot backfires of black smoke and jagged lines of flames following which the plane would have gone down.

Why Planes Crash and Mayday (air crash investigations) are two tv series that show cgi versions and reenactments of such things.

[null and void]

Sadly, unlike them, missing.