Monday, November 9, 2015

2,186 Sheep Smell-up airplane

Well, this is one for the record books: flatulent sheep forced a cargo plane to make an emergency landing this week.
Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter plane traveling from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur had 2,186 sheep on board, and the combined stench of their “exhaust fumes” and manure set off the smoke alarm.
The crew, thinking the alarm was due to, you know, fire, quickly diverted to Bali and made an emergency landing. Of course, when emergency services boarded, they didn’t find any fire or smoke — but they did find the natural emissions of 2,000 sheep. Two and a half hours later, the herd and the crew were on their way again. 
This isn’t the first time animals have wreaked their own special brand of havoc on a Singapore Airlines plane. In August, another aircraft was carrying a flock of storks from Istanbul to Singapore, and soon after takeoff, the birds pecked a hole in the nose of the plane.
In the case of the sheep, the hoofers didn’t cause any damage. Apparently though, bloat and flatulence are common occurrences when animals like cattle, sheep, and sheep are under stress.
Now we’ve heard everything. Thank goodness we didn’t have to smell it.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Fish Attack

Girlfriend assaults man with mounted sailfish during spat
SF Gate Nov, 1, 2015

Girlfriend assaults man with mounted sailfish during spat Photo: Andy Newman, AP Updated 1:41 pm, Monday, November 2, 2015 WHITEHALL, Mich. (AP) — A 61-year-old western Michigan man has been injured after his girlfriend slugged and poked him with a mounted sailfish during an argument. WOOD-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1PeiiY7 ) that the man was sketching the fish early Sunday morning in his Whitehall home, northwest of Grand Rapids. Police say his 58-year-old girlfriend became angry and moved the Read the full story

Fish Attack

WHITEHALL, Mich. (AP) — A 61-year-old western Michigan man has been injured after his girlfriend slugged and poked him with a mounted sailfish during an argument.
WOOD-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1PeiiY7 ) that the man was sketching the fish early Sunday morning in his Whitehall home, northwest of Grand Rapids.
Police say his 58-year-old girlfriend became angry and moved the fish which fell and broke. She blamed the man for the damage and hit him on the head with the fish. His hand also was cut by the sailfish's sword-like bill.

The couple had been drinking and no arrests were made. Police say Muskegon County prosecutors will review the case.


Not the actual mounted sailfish; live sailfish substitution.