Otters Cause Flight Delay In Houston

By Jill Harness in Animals & Pets, Everything Else on Dec 24, 2009 at 2:45 pm

savagecatWhen passengers on a Continental flight out of Houston were told their flight would be delayed because of otters, a lot of them laughed, thinking it was a joke. It wasn’t.

There were a number of otters set to travel in the cargo area, but one somehow managed to escape its cage. “We watched them take them off the plane in a box, and the next thing we know one of the otters got loose and took off across the tarmac,” said passenger Harvey Bullock.

The flight ended up being delayed a full 80 minutes, but at least the passengers were able to make cheesy ‘otters on a plane’ jokes for the rest of their lives.

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  1. ted
    Dec 25th, 2009 at 12:11 am

    They “made cheesy otters on a plane jokes for the rest of their lives”.

    So the passengers are all dead now?

  2. Edward
    Dec 26th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    Don’t you love news stories with “somehow”?

    If the reporter had not used that word, the story would be the same. By using it, he implies that key details are being left out intentionally.

  3. Jill Harness
    Dec 28th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Or it implies that those details are unknown.


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