9/10/2007 at 9:15 AM
Tags: Snakes, Snakes On A Plane, Smuggling (all tags)
You know, we've never even considered packing snakes in our luggage, but it's one of the hottest trends in travel right now. The most recent trendsetter was a passenger arriving at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport who checked the snakes on his Korean Air flight. Customs officers found the reptiles when he touched down.
The icky part about these snakes on a plane is that they were already dead and packed with a dead bird and pieces of other birds. He faces a fine but the final punishment isn't clear because officials are still trying to work out what he planned to use the snakes for:
Right now our agents are a little leery about speculating on that, a federal spokesman said.
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[Photo: Pathfinder_Linden]
by amandak
8/03/2006 at 9:50 AM
Tags: JetBlue, Snakes on a Plane, Airfare Sale (all tags)
Ok, we totally made that up, however we needed some reason to post the action photo we just took.
So let this post serve as a double reminder:
First, Snakes on a Plane opens two weeks from tomorrow, August 18th.
Second, Jet Blue's three day Fall Fare sale ends today.
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by markj
6/05/2006 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Snakes on a Plane, Adventure Travel, Movies (all tags)
There's a sliding scale when it comes to unpleasant seatmates on an airplane. On the "wish-it'd happen-to-me" side of things is the lonely model who recently suffered a bad breakup, needs a shoulder to cry on, and possibly a make-out partner. Moving up the scale, you'll find the contagious cougher, the idle chatterer, the morbidly obese person who steals your armrest and your sandwich, all the way up to Simon Cowell, who wouldn't be impressed with us in any way, shape or form, we can say that much. We used to think that was he would be the worst possible in-flight companion, but we were wrong.
No, the worst in-flight companion, a fact to which Samuel L. Jackson will almost certainly attest, is a snake. And pilot Monty Coles, flying his Piper Cherokee over West Virginia last weekend,
would agree. A former flight-instructor, Monty found himself facing off with a four-and-a-half foot snake in the cockpit while he was preparing to land the plane. Thinking quickly, he grabbed it behind the head, radioed for an emergency landing, and flew the plane with his free hand.
"They came back and asked what my problem was," he said. "I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared me in."
Move over, Simon Cowell. There's a new snake in town.
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