Squirrelled Away
TORN FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-briefs10.1feb10,1,6310080.story NATION IN BRIEF / HAWAII Squirrel on a plane diverts flight From Times Wire Reports February 10, 2007 American Airlines diverted a Tokyo-to-Dallas flight, landing the airplane in Honolulu because the pilots found a squirrel in the cockpit. "HEH-HEH-HEH! GIVE ME THE JOYSTICK, YOU FUCKERS!" Flight 176, a Boeing Co. 777 with 202 passengers aboard, arrived in Honolulu at 5:27 a.m. local time after the flight crew heard a noise in an overhead bin, LOUD MUSIC, OE40's ROLLING AROUND, AND POWERBARS IN THE SHAPE OF FUNNY LITTLE ANIMALS found the squirrel WHO TOLD THE CREW: "I GOT MINE, NOW FUCK OFF!... AND GET YOUR OWN! -HEH-HEH-HEH!" and decided to land at the nearest airport, a spokesman "CARL" for American said. It was standard procedure, he said, WHILE KNEADING A BLOCK OF SEMTEX INTO A RODENTESQUE SCULPTURE and based on concern that a sq...