Keeping up with our series connecting animals and air travel, we offer:
Security officers found 30 dead snakes in the luggage of an airline passenger at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. TSA officials said the passenger had just arrived on a flight from Seoul, South Korea.
TSA officers Christopher Hendericks and Dennis Madaris made the startling discovery while searching the passenger’s checked packages at the airport. In addition to the snakes they found a dead bird and pieces of several other birds packed inside several jars and bottles.
Security Manager Sharnette Everson praised how Hendericks and Madaris handled the discovery.
“They knew right away to call attention to what they found,” she said.
Well, gollee! Give those suckers another lollipop.
Thanks, KB – I think.
Now there’s a quality television news story. It provides no news value at all, very little information and no attempt at explanation whatsoever.
They could have summed up the entire story with the cartoon caption: “Duh! Snakes!”
I wonder how much these reporters, camera-persons, editors and producers get paid to do this sort of ‘work’?
I think they just can’t pay them enough to provide me with this sort of valuable information about the world around me and what it all means!
Cranky? Nah, I’m not cranky.
I always keep a mongoose in the cockpit, just in case! 🙂
It’s worth watching local tv news once in a (very long) while just to remind oneself how awful it is. Where else can you watch four people take 30 minutes to tell you what tomorrow’s weather is going to be?