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Pussy Attacks Pilot in Cockpit! Eject! Eject! Abort Flight!
2004-08-10
via BBC - EFL
Gin, the kitty, is a bad pussy! No, not that kind, this kind!
Tuesday, 10 August, 2004, 13:33 GMT 14:33 UK
Cat pounces on pilot mid-flight
A pet cat said to be usually very nice created a scare on a Belgian airliner in mid-air, forcing the crew to high-tail it back to the safety of Brussels.
Yeah, it's always the "nice" ones that draw blood.
A "lot of coincidences", as the airline told BBC News Online, ended with the escaped creature running wild in the cockpit and attacking the co-pilot.
Scared adrenaline-pumped cat, small confined space, razor sharp claws....
The captain ordered the Vienna-bound plane back after about 20 minutes. SN Brussels Airlines stressed the incident had been a fluke and the crew had observed all safety regulations. "We 100% support the decision made by the captain," Geert Sciot, the airline's communication vice-president, told the BBC. Nobody, he said, could tell what an agitated cat what might do in the circumstances, scrabbling around amid the sensitive equipment in the cockpit of the Avro RJ.
Oh, how about reducing the flight crew to hamburger
"It took a long time to catch it," he noted, describing the offending beast - said by Brussels newspaper La Derniere Heure to be a tom by the name of Gin - as "very aggressive".
"tom named Gin", bet he's a big ginger colored tomcat. Had one like that named Sam, topped out at 25lbs fighting weight. Hated dogs, attacked them on sight, no fear at all, god I miss him.
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This speaks volumes. Lol! I'll leave the rest to your fertile imaginations, heh.
Posted by:.com

#18  


Interpol arrests Islamic Fundamentalist Feline

Al Qatta is now allied with Al Qaeda
Posted by: BigEd   2004-08-10 20:00  

#17  LOL .com. I just don't like even the thought of a drunken cat. Most of 'em barely tolerate us anyway, a litter hootch and you find yourself going mano a sylveterus with 12 lbs of crazed kitten. And trust me on this one, most cats come equipped with 10 razoring blades on the front and a chainsaw on the back. I make a point of making 'em back down every morning, so they don't get uppity.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-10 18:53  

#16  Cute, cute... Henry VIII looks very much like that cat... only grey. I worry more about him flooding out the cat-box, if he overindulges. After all, you only rent beer....
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2004-08-10 17:49  

#15  Sounds like a good idea - you wouldn't want to end up with a couch potato, heh.
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 17:12  

#14  Well, he is not allowed access very often--- only when my daughter, AKA Cpl. Blondie is home. This is probably a good thing, since I don't think beer can be very good for him.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2004-08-10 17:08  

#13  SgtMom - A beer-drinking cat? Wow! Since I don't drink, I guess I've missed some opportunities there, lol! I guess it's always a matter of access, eh?
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 16:59  

#12  LOL, Angie! Good one.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-08-10 16:57  

#11  Even the small ones can be a handful, if they have all their claws... OTO, speaking of cats with dissolute lifestyles, I have a large grey long-haired ex-tomcat who adores drinking beer...
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2004-08-10 16:50  

#10  Raptor - Yeah, I've had some hunter types - yowling in the middle of the night until I'd get up and turn on the light - there'd be some victim awaiting execution. They were so phreakin' proud and wanted to "share" the moment, I guess, lol! It just phreaked my wife out - she only got up once to come look and when she saw this good-sized snake on the kitchen floor she screamed and almost fainted dead away, heh. After that, she wouldn't come look and wouldn't get out of bed to go pee til morning, lol! Ah, cats... what a trip!
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 16:48  

#9  Had a grey Persian that was hell on dogs.Know I have a 15 year-old tabby,with no teeth she still brings home dinner,rabbits,rats,mice,birds.She has even braught in a bat and a snake.
Posted by: Raptor   2004-08-10 16:42  

#8  2% - Catfight? Lol! I can easily imagine what it dredged up! Change the google preferences on that work machine - fast! - and filter results! I do appreciate the thought, however!
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 16:35  

#7  Thought I'd play .com and come up with a pic. Typed in Tom Cat Fight Pic in google and it asked if I meant "Catfight". I said ok. Now I have to clean my temp folder at work. (super-strict about that stuff here)
Posted by: 2%   2004-08-10 16:28  

#6  Ship - Lol! That description sounds like one or two I've shared accommodations with, lol! The life of a tomcat is some serious shit - at least for the "domesticated animal" world! It's a tough row to hoe and the ones that get to roam their territory pay a heavy price to hold it, heh. The "indoor" cats, well, they're another matter entirely. I don't have any pix of cats who've fought the good fight, unfortunately!
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 16:20  

#5  Had a orange one like that too .com. By the time he was 12 he was missing most of one ear, part of the other and was blind in one eye. It took him 8 hours of prowling just to cover his perimeter each night. Loved people. Hated cats, dogs, squirells, raccoons (that's what damaged him the most, but he'd kill their cubs) and rats.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-10 15:17  

#4  Steve - I knew I had something, just takes time to find it, heh. In honor of Sam, meet Sam Spayed (heh), the coolest cat in my collection...
Posted by: .com   2004-08-10 13:47  

#3  you forgot the *rimshot* angie...
Posted by: Frank G   2004-08-10 12:57  

#2  You suppose it could have been an Al Catta operation?
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2004-08-10 12:55  

#1  Cats. Why do they hate us?
Posted by: BH   2004-08-10 11:58  

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