Hey...it *could* have been a hijacker or a terrorist!

[MorganGrayson]

MANILA (Reuters) - A mouse upset the best-laid plans of an airline and nearly 250 passengers in the Philippines, grounding a plane for 13 hours while engineers tried to smoke out the rodent.

The Qatar Airways plane was preparing for take-off from Manila airport earlier this week when a crew member spotted the mouse scampering across an aisle in the economy class section, the Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted airport officials as saying.

The captain ordered the passengers to disembark while maintenance staff fumigated the aircraft and laid traps, but the mouse was nowhere to be found.

The Doha-bound aircraft eventually took off 13 hours late, presumably with the mouse still on board, dead or alive.

"There was an incident before with a cockroach, but it's the first time that we had to deal with a mouse," the Inquirer quoted airport operations chief Octavio Lina as saying.

[ReighlynnRaine]

Well we can't have them smuggling cheese now can we?

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by ReighlynnRaine

Well we can't have them smuggling cheese now can we?

Oooh! I didn't even think of that!

Those dreaded and dangerous cheese smugglers. They shoot first and ask...well, they don't ask any questions whatsoever. Scary little fuckers.

[SykkBoy]

Well mice are the smartest species on the planet, right?

[Nickatilynx]

I thought Marcos had all the rats shot..

you obviously cant have a rodent loose on a $50,000,000.00 plane with 250 lives at risk, which relies almost solely on its electrical systems to fly.


i refuse to log in anymore

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by SykkBoy

Well mice are the smartest species on the planet, right?

The answer is still 42.

[SykkBoy]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

The answer is still 42.

I was wondering who'd be the first to get that reference ;-)

[PornoDoggy]

My cats are convinced that mice are terrorists. They are quite efficent little killing machines, too.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

My cats are convinced that mice are terrorists.

Definitely! Look at all the "meeces" down through the ages who have hit cats on the head with giant mallets, pianos and anvils! If I were a cat, I'd call them terrorists too.




WMDs = Weapons of Meece Destruction!