Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Totally Unrelated News

This has absolutely nothing to do with football or sports of any kind, but it’s too good to pass up. David Sullivan, a passenger aboard an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Vermont, was stung in the leg and shin by a Scorpion during the flight. I smell SEQUEL!!!

We got Motherfuckin’ Scorpions on the PLANE!

Sullivan awoke from a nap to find something wrong with his right leg.

"My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something."

Then while waiting for his luggage he got stung again. Sullivan rolled up his cuff to investigate, and the scorpion fell out. Strange right? Probably won’t ever happen again right? Wrong: an American Airlines flight was delayed for an hour in Toronto on Sunday after a passenger was stung by a scorpion that had made its way on board. "The airlines tell you can't bring water or shampoo on a plane," Helena Sullivan, David’s wife, said. But the scorpion did make it aboard.

Gratuitous joke in 3…2…1…

That’s just peachy, they probably didn’t even ask the scorpion for identification! Hell, he made it Toronto and I’ll bet he didn’t even have a passport. They won’t let Troy Smith’s Heisman on board but they’ll let poisonous animals on. What is this world coming to?

Comedy that writes itself: Sullivan said he hadn't seen the recent movie Snakes on a Plane but “maybe I have to see it now."


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great. Just what I need to hear as I get ready to fly tomorrow.

Galen said...

As long as you aren't traveling on American you should be ok Mike. I heard Scorpions prefer the in-flight meal over other airlines.