SNAKES ON A PLANE.

[yorick]

I like where pranksters released a couple of rattle snakes in the theatre when the film opened in Phoenix AZ..... Did anybody hear about that?

Kids smuggled em inside using backpacks and didnt take long before panic broke out with rattlers making a racket. An excellent prank, good clean healthy fun.


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[rickshaw92]

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/05/iv ... ic-control

'I've got snakes on a plane,' pilot tells air traffic control 30


FIRST POSTED: THURSDAY, APRIL 05, 2012 07:49 AM EDT | UPDATED: THURSDAY, APRIL 05, 2012 08:13 AM EDT


An Australian pilot had to make an unplanned landing only 20 minutes after takeoff after a snake slithered out of the dashboard into the cockpit.

Pilot Braden Blennerhassett spotted the snake about 20 minutes after takeoff from the Darwin Airport on an Air Frontier cargo flight Tuesday afternoon, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

"Lo and behold, in between the instrument panel and the dashboard, a stowaway came on board and it took me a while to register that it was actually a snake," Blennerhassett told the broadcaster Thursday.

"I turned (the plane) around and got it headed back towards Darwin there and said, 'Look, you're not going to believe this. I've got snakes on a plane."

A character played by Samuel L. Jackson found himself in a similar situation in the widely parodied 2006 action-thriller Snakes on a Plane.

At first, air traffic control didn't believe him, Blennerhassett said, but they started to take him seriously when he asked for a snake handler to meet the plane.

Blennerhassett was alone on the plane, flying a solo cargo flight, when the unticketed passenger popped out.

Air Frontier director Geoffrey Hunt told ABC the plane will be grounded until staff find -- and remove -- the snake.