The squirrels have returned.
Just when the squirrel menace looked like it might have faded away, an American Airlines flight from Tokyo has been forced to make an emergency landing in Honolulu because a rogue squirrel had managed to sneak on board.
The squirrel emergency was discovered when, on the flight from Tokyo to Dallas, the pilots heard what has been described as a ‘skittering’noise in the space above the cockpit.
Subsequent investigations revealed that the noise was caused by an insurgent squirrel that had somehow managed to board the flight.
The plane was forced to make a quick landing in Honolulu, Hawaii, as the pilots were worried that the squirrel could severely damage the plane by chewing through wiring.
The passengers were taken off the plane when it landed, and were forced to spend the night in hotels while wildlife officials hunted down the squirrel. Eventually, they caught it, and – fearing it might have rabies – killed it.
Nobody knows how the squirrel got on the plane.
Seriously have reporters gone squirrel crazy? Have people gone nuts? That same site has a ton of articles about squirrels and that hasn’t been all of them. Lately we’ve seen stories about squirrels having to be hunted down after packs of them in England got together and killed a dog. And there where stories about attacks elsewhere.
Now in this article they say they killed the squirrel because they thought it may of had rabies. Rodents are resistant to rabies and are end vectors anyway. You can check for yourself at the CDC.
