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Escaped Hamster Forces Plane to Land
Fox News ^
| 9/29/06
| AP Wire
Posted on 09/29/2006 11:09:26 AM PDT by rock_lobsta
INNSBRUCK, Austria — It wasn't "Snakes on a Plane," but an Austrian Airlines jet made an unscheduled stop as a precaution Friday after a passenger sneaked a hamster aboard and the rodent escaped.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gerbil; richardlandinggere
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To: rock_lobsta
Everything would have been fine if someone hadn't started playing that dam Hamster Dance song.
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:18:58 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
To: rock_lobsta
It forced the plane to land? Was it armed? How did it get into the cockpit? Where was the sky marshal?
To: Slainte
Yoiks. I'm going to have to fly back from Atlanta to Richmond in a couple of weeks, I don't need to imagine that I might be sharing that 717 with a bunch of mice. It sounds funny, but mice have enough of a taste for wiring insulation that it can actually cause problems.
True mouse war story--in 1942 during the Stalingrad campaign, the Germans ordered their 22nd Panzer Division to prepare to move out to block a Soviet attack north of the city along the Don River. When the crews started their tanks and tried to move, some of the tanks caught fire, others stalled. They found that in months where the division had been in reserve, immobile, that mice had nested in the engines and gnawed through fuel lines and wiring. They only had twenty out of two hundred tanks still mobile.
}:-)4
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:20:42 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(They caught me white and nerdy.)
To: rock_lobsta
Why was someone travelling with a hamster? hmmmmmm? Sounds to me like the poor little thing was running for its life.
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:20:53 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Treaty Fetishism: "[The] belief that a piece of paper will alter the behavior of thugs." R. Lowry.)
To: rock_lobsta
Well, now...isn't that just the silliest thing you ever heard? I suppose that hamster was going to jump up on someone and eat their pretzels...the little pest!
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:21:58 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: verum ago
As the hamster was surrounded, he had this to say prior to launching his final counterattack...
Seriesly... that hamster is FIERCE!!!
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:21:59 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Offending liberals since 1993)
To: rock_lobsta
Where do you think he wanted to hijack it to?
"AWRIGHT...PUT DOWN THE PEANUTS AND NOBODY GETS HURT!!!"
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:22:47 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: verum ago
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:22:48 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
To: rock_lobsta
Rats are serious business. They gnaw through the wires and hydraulics and can bring down a plane.
A rat is more serious than a person suffering from a heart attack onboard the plane.
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:22:48 AM PDT
by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: rock_lobsta
All you have to do is put my cat on board and wait twenty minutes. One minute to catch the rodent, 19 minutes to spend tossing the twitching little body into the air...
I used to own a dachshund that took out about 12 hamsters, mice, 4 guinie pigs and a sluggish chameleon in one evening of unbridled slaughter...
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:22:51 AM PDT
by
jonascord
("Let 'em burn!...")
To: verum ago
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:26:15 AM PDT
by
BookaT
(My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
To: verum ago
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:26:34 AM PDT
by
Danae
(Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
To: rock_lobsta
Didn't Kerry have a hampster story?
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:30:58 AM PDT
by
DejaJude
(Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
To: rock_lobsta
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:32:09 AM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
To: tiredoflaundry
If they can smuggle a hamster, what else are our airline screeners missing?
Carolyn
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:33:25 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: rock_lobsta
Ever notice how the news media never uses the word "gerbil" anymore?
-Eric
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:34:39 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
(Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
To: NonValueAdded
I think there's a gay joke in here somewhere, but I afraid to look for it! :-O
Trying to imagine how many places one can "hide" a hamster...ewwww.
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:37:49 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
To: tiredoflaundry
Are there no hamster slayers among you...or only cowards?
To: rock_lobsta
Maybe it was a Syrian hamster..
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:55:30 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: rock_lobsta
I looked all the way through this thread ... and deduce you are all way too insecure ...
Ahem ... !
"Escaped? .. My ass !"
There!
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posted on
09/29/2006 11:55:52 AM PDT
by
knarf
(Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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