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New adventures in checked baggage

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Because things in commercial air travel aren't strange enough:

 


Alan Ampolsk

"Ah, Paula, they are firing at me!"
-- Saint-Exupery

Alright, how is quarantine going to work with these frisky travelers?

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5 hours ago, paddler said:

Alright, how is quarantine going to work with these frisky travelers?

Well, first you round them up... 😎

Edited by Alan_A


Alan Ampolsk

"Ah, Paula, they are firing at me!"
-- Saint-Exupery

We had a kitten once smuggled onboard a Gmmx to Egkk flight at easyjet once.  Ironically it was a 80 something year old pensioner who saw the stray cat at the airport as she got out the taxi and stuffed it up her jumper. 

Half way through the flight it got out and started running around the aircraft. 

We had an acars asking us should they divert to lfpg or carry on to Egkk. 

We told them Egkk due lfpg curfew and once it arrived it was met by the police and  port health, best bit was the cops had to arrest 6 people including the old lady as they started kicking off about the kitten being taken away (to be put down) 

 
 
 
 
 
  913456

Over the (many) years I've flown a little over 3 million miles. I've seen some crazy stuff but this beats them all. Thanks for the laugh........Doug

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16 minutes ago, W2DR said:

Over the (many) years I've flown a little over 3 million miles. I've seen some crazy stuff but this beats them all. Thanks for the laugh........Doug

I could give you 10 examples like the one above In my 20 years in the game. 

I remember once when I was cabin crew, on a Nairobi we had shoe Box of baby terrapins was smuggled on board once by some nasty illegal trader, as the a/C was taxiing out we where doing the demo and as I was pointing out the exits I saw one them, this tiny little thing scurry across the carpet,   we had been out partying the night before and truthfully a few of us where quite hungover, including myself, so I didn't know it was was imagined it. 

A minute later I saw it again scurry back the other way,  oh god  I thought, so I quickly got the purser to stop the demo, called the skipper and told him to stop at the holding point. 

Long story cut short, we went onto stand, cops came onboard and we arrested a guy with a shoe box full of the little things. 

Edited by fluffyflops

 
 
 
 
 
  913456

Is it just me, or was anyone else going "Ey, Ey, Ey" in an Australian accent as per the crabs in Finding Nemo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DLxR2fOdM

No?   ...I guess it's just me then! :blush::laugh:

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