Squirrel Grounds Plane

[Trinadad]

Haha. Did you guys hear about this? Lawl. :frypan:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/15/stowaway.squirrel.ap/index.html

[Angelyne]

I smell a sequel to Snakes on a Plane.

[Roxie]

Oooh, and then you could do FLYING Squirrels...How clever!

[Decade]

They killed it as soon as they landed in Honolulu.

That's just great, you take the thing to where it'll probably be happiest in the world (granted there may or may not be that many common nuts for him to eat on the beautiful beach paradises) and you kill it on sight for fear of rabies.

I bet security confiscated and inspected his nuts for terrorist activity too (interpret that ANY way you want).

[c-rex]

They killed it as soon as they landed in Honolulu.

That's just great, you take the thing to where it'll probably be happiest in the world (granted there may or may not be that many common nuts for him to eat on the beautiful beach paradises) and you kill it on sight for fear of rabies.

I bet security confiscated and inspected his nuts for terrorist activity too (interpret that ANY way you want).
Because you don't let random invasive species loose on tropical islands. For example many bird species on tropical islands are threatened by non native snakes who slither up into trees and eat the eggs out of the nest. The birds went thousands of years without seeing snakes until some moron's snake got loose and da birds have no defenses against it.

[Decade]

I just wanna see a Simpsons like situation happen. You know, when Bart brings Bullfrogs to Australia.

Or squirrels to an island. I just think it's funny :D

And by the way Trina I woulda named this thread "Squirrels on a plane!"

[TygressVirgo]

Because you don't let random invasive species loose on tropical islands. For example many bird species on tropical islands are threatened by non native snakes who slither up into trees and eat the eggs out of the nest. The birds went thousands of years without seeing snakes until some moron's snake got loose and da birds have no defenses against it.

This bastard snake :bang: (>.<) killed almost all the local birds on the island of Guam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_tree_snake

They could of flown the poor creature back to its natural habitat instead of killing it though. :duh:

[Mittens]

OMG THEY KILLED IT!
Im totally not joking when I say im saddened.
Taking away an innocent animal's life just because it got lost.
Fucking humans, I swear Im gonna rid the planet of all of you.

[Trump]

I don't think the squirrel could afford the plane ticket home.

[Trinadad]

And by the way Trina I woulda named this thread "Squirrels on a plane!"
Lawl, I should have. :P

But yeah, poor squirrelly.... :( RIP my love.

[Dresh]

Poor squirrel, they should have put in the local zoo.

Because you don't let random invasive species loose on tropical islands. For example many bird species on tropical islands are threatened by non native snakes who slither up into trees and eat the eggs out of the nest. The birds went thousands of years without seeing snakes until some moron's snake got loose and da birds have no defenses against it.

That's where the mongoose come in, 'cept I think they started eating birds too...

[羽之助]

Funnily enough, Decade predicted this the other day.

http://www.outpostnine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=321772&postcount=6

a flying flaming squirrel

[Shamu]

Other than the chewing wires, I dunno why they bothered to stop...
The squirrel would have been met by a bunch of trigger happy people anyways...:watson:

[Comazon]

Isn't chewing the wires enough of a reason to land?

I wouldn't want some chewed-through wires on the plane I was flying on. >_>;;

[Firefly]

I just wanna see a Simpsons like situation happen. You know, when Bart brings Bullfrogs to Australia.

Or squirrels to an island. I just think it's funny :D

And by the way Trina I woulda named this thread "Squirrels on a plane!"


I'm sure natives to islands that rely on certain ecosystems would feel differently. :knockout:


Why kill it though? Why couldn't they just put it in a cage and take it back to where it belonged? >_>

[Myrsilus]

And give in so easily? They've already won with that mentality, Lin.

[Shamu]

Isn't chewing the wires enough of a reason to land?

I wouldn't want some chewed-through wires on the plane I was flying on. >_>;;
I was kidding...except for the trigger happy people at the Dallas airport part...I wouldn't want a squirrel chewing through wires on a jet either.


But really, it's too bad they killed the little thing, but I guess they have to be extra safe?

[Decade]

That's where the mongoose come in, 'cept I think they started eating birds too...
NEW IDEA: Put a moose in Hawaii and just watch the fun.

Or a polar bear, I dont give a fuck, lets just have some fun with it.


Funnily enough, Decade predicted this the other day.

http://www.outpostnine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=321772&postcount=6


:eek: OH-MY-GAWD :eek:

I'll win powerball this week.


NO ONE RUIN THIS FOR ME

[Nebosuke]

Mongooses are already all over most of the Hawaiian islands. The largest exception being my home island of Kauai (phew!). They were brought in to combat the rats that used to plague the sugar plantations... but then it turned out that they are diurnal and the rats were mainly nocturnal, so the mongooses were totally ineffective at eating anything but local birds :P.