Maybe they took the name too literally
Talk about a mix-up. United Airlines accidentally shipped two German sheperds to Germany instead of Fort
Lauderdale. The pets were accompanying a couple who had just moved to South Florida, reports Local 10 TV
of Miami. When the couple checked their claim check for their pets, they notice the destination was listed as
FRA -- or Frankfurt -- instead of FLL for Fort Lauderdale. "We got our luggage -- no dogs," said owner Ramiro
Diaz, who flew United from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale via the airline's Washington Dulles hub. "That's the
most pathetic mistake that can happen. It's OK when you lose luggage, but life, like a pet, that's beyond comprehension." United apologized for the incident and the dogs were to be flown back to Miami the following
day.
Weird goes the extra mile
The cat's out of the bag
A flight between Brussels and Vienna was scratched in midair Aug. 9 because of an angry cat. The feline,
traveling on the SN Brussels Airlines flight, apparently was released from its cage by a child and slinked into
the cockpit when crew meals were served. After the cat resisted being shooed out and scratched a co-pilot
on the arm, the pilot turned the plane back to Brussels and made an emergency landing.
The kitty was grounded.
Full monty screening
Most folks slip off their jackets and shoes at airport security checkpoints. A passenger at the Minneapolis
airport took the dressing-down a step further. Police said a screener was waving a metal-detecting wand
over the man's pants in July when he dropped his trousers to reveal he wasn't wearing underwear.
"There, how do you like your job?" he said, according to a police report. He later pleaded guilty to indecent
exposure and paid a $163 fine. "We needed to take some action on that," airport police Lt. Matt Christenson
told the Associated Press. "Otherwise, everybody would be dropping their pants."
Punching out
Seeing a passenger apparently deep in slumber as a train rolled toward York, England, a conductor discreetly
stamped and returned the man's ticket. When the train arrived at the station, the rider couldn't be budged,
and paramedics were summoned. "It turned out that the passenger had expired long before his ticket ever did,"
said a report in the British Transport Police's magazine.
The buzzing trash bin
An airport in Brisbane, Australia, was evacuated Oct. 3 after a security officer heard a humming noise in a
trash can and called the bomb squad. After 45 minutes, passengers and staffers were allowed back into
Mackay Airport. The buzzing device turned out to be a vibrating sex toy.
TSA accused of spilling cremated remains in fliers' luggage
A passenger is suing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), alleging that a federal screener
forced open a sealed box in her backpack that contained that cremated remains of a relative. "I could
feel and I could see like sand all through the backpack," Lisa Miller told NBC TV affiliate King 5 of Seattle.
"The TSA broke open the container with the remains and spilled it." The TSA did not comment on the case,
but did make public a set of guidelines to funeral homes on how to transport cremated remains on
commercial flights. In the suit, Miller is asking for $175,000 in damages, in addition to compensation for
emotional distress, reports TV station NBC 7/39 of San Diego. In a story written before the incident, The
News & Observer of Raleigh wrote "urns may baffle screeners," adding that "cremation (and) travel (are)
an uneasy mix." That certainly appears to be proven true by this incident.
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