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Alligator gets loose in airliner baggage compartment
The Dallas Morning News ^
| 10/27/2003
Posted on 10/27/2003 12:58:42 PM PST by Texican72
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. - An alligator was captured inside the baggage hold of an airliner on Monday after escaping from its crate.
The young alligator, just 4 to 5 feet long and weighing as little as 10 pounds, remained inside a burlap bag with its mouth bound shut, American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner said.
Officers captured it with a looped device and put it back in its crate with three other gators shipped from Miami, officials said.
Authorities were looking into how the reptile got out.
The gator was found outside its box when the cargo hold of the Boeing 767 was opened, Wagner said.
Officials said they did not know why the alligators were being shipped. But their paperwork was in order, Wagner said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: alligator
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Its a good day to NOT be a baggage handler.
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posted on
10/27/2003 12:58:42 PM PST
by
Texican72
To: Texican72
Probably on it's way to an apartment in Harlem or Brooklyn.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:01:08 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Mears
As dinner.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:02:40 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Texican72
"Authorities were looking into how the reptile got out."
Simple, the alligator had gone to a seminar "to think outside the box"
To: Texican72
It's probably calmer being in a burlap bag than in an alligator bag.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:03:10 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: Texican72
Most folks would be surprised at the numbers and kinds of live critters shipped this way.
To: Thud
Yep.
To: Texican72
The gator was found outside [the]
box...Yes, but was the alligator thinking?
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:11:23 PM PST
by
70times7
(An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
To: John Beresford Tipton
The tax payer subsidized airline couldn't afford in flight meals, so the gator had try and find a tasty bulldog on his own...Go Gators
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:15:02 PM PST
by
bobjam
To: Mears; Thud
I think Taiwan or Hong Kong might be a more likely destination,as Thud said,for dinner.
Asia pays good prices for all kinds of wild critters.
To: Free Trapper
It's true. My son is a zoo keeper and he has to meet his guests at the airport as they arrive.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:20:05 PM PST
by
twigs
To: 70times7
"You're Luggage" (Arnold in Eraser)
To: Free Trapper
A cousin of mine was a baggage handler for a few summers at a major airport years ago. He acquired a two-year old black Newfoundland because someone shipped the dog and no one claimed him. After the end of the second day he took the dog home to care for it until the owner's showed up. The owner's never showed and he kept the dog.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:24:41 PM PST
by
Hatteras
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
To: Free Trapper
Doesn't it get really cold in the cargo area at high altitudes? The poor aligator was probably just trying to get to a warmer spot. You don't see a lot of aligators in cold climates.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:29:14 PM PST
by
giotto
To: Hatteras; twigs
I'm more familiar with wild critters being shipped out,instead of in.
H ,I love your tag.:o)
Aligator=alligator. Too bad I typed it twice, or I could have blamed it on my bad typing skills, rather than the fact that I'm a lousy speller.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:35:16 PM PST
by
giotto
To: Texican72
Someone forgot to process that luggage?
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:37:03 PM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Texican72
just 4 to 5 feet long and weighing as little as 10 pounds
??? No wonder Steve Irwin wrestles them so easily...Crikey!
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:39:11 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Credito Facil !)
To: giotto
A lot of reptiles are shipped air freight.Some with dry bags and others with wet burlap.
Keeping them cool is best because it slows their metabolism for a less stressful journey.
To: giotto
Boeing 767's have heated cargo bins, as do most jet airliners. Ten pounds and five feet long, can't be both.
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posted on
10/27/2003 1:49:39 PM PST
by
6AL-4V
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