Crickets
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BrettInLJ
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About 10 minutes prior to push, your ground crew notifies you that one of the inbound boxes, full of crickets, has burst and there's an infestation of several hundred in your cargo bin.
You're about 40 minutes prior to scheduled pushback.
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As far as I'm concerned, the airplane is grounded until they can remove all the crickets and/or exterminate them. Bugs can get into very tight openings and they could get into wiring/circuitry and cause shorts or even a fire in the wrong place.
About 10 minutes prior to push, your ground crew notifies you that one of the inbound boxes, full of crickets, has burst and there's an infestation of several hundred in your cargo bin.
You're about 40 minutes prior to scheduled pushback.
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As far as I'm concerned, the airplane is grounded until they can remove all the crickets and/or exterminate them. Bugs can get into very tight openings and they could get into wiring/circuitry and cause shorts or even a fire in the wrong place.
Maximilian_Jenius
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Hmmmm something tells me that this may have actually occured on your most recent trip....
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ComplexHiAv8r
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I was starting to wonder if Doug has had a bad day or two with the "Your the Captain" posts
Screaming_Emu
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Continue the flight and tell the passengers to smash 'em as you see 'em J/K!!!!!!!!!
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I had something sorta related in flight. I was flying from MSP-NRT on a Northwest 747 and I had used a bunch of my freaky flier miles to upgrade and I got put in the bubble. So there was a bit of a mosquito problem up there, the whole flight out there, every 5 minutes you'd here somebody smack one with a magazine and after a while every time somebody did it they'd go "got one!".
Continue the flight and tell the passengers to smash 'em as you see 'em J/K!!!!!!!!!
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I had something sorta related in flight. I was flying from MSP-NRT on a Northwest 747 and I had used a bunch of my freaky flier miles to upgrade and I got put in the bubble. So there was a bit of a mosquito problem up there, the whole flight out there, every 5 minutes you'd here somebody smack one with a magazine and after a while every time somebody did it they'd go "got one!".
moxiepilot
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hey, if you climb high enought they'll freeze, right?
j/k
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please tell me your being sarcastic! could you imagine some lady screaming on board a flying jet because she just saw a snake pass by in the crevice of the overhead bin?! hahaha
snakes & lizards can get into anywhere as long as they've got a small opening to go thru. might as well put some spiders and/or scorpions in there while your at it.
snakes & lizards can get into anywhere as long as they've got a small opening to go thru. might as well put some spiders and/or scorpions in there while your at it.
BrettInLJ
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Then relase a mongoose to take care of the snakes. Follow that with a special breed of monkey that eats mongoose, what's special about this breed is that they die off after the mongoose supply is exhasted.
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Don't be silly. If there is a large predatory cat being freighted in the cargo hold, you could just release it and that would take care of the loose monkeys. Cricket problem solved! Chief pilot position, here I come.
And Kristie, yes I was being sarcastic.
Then relase a mongoose to take care of the snakes. Follow that with a special breed of monkey that eats mongoose, what's special about this breed is that they die off after the mongoose supply is exhasted.
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Don't be silly. If there is a large predatory cat being freighted in the cargo hold, you could just release it and that would take care of the loose monkeys. Cricket problem solved! Chief pilot position, here I come.
And Kristie, yes I was being sarcastic.
Tim
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First of all speaking for a ground crew guy, you would be lucky if they told you about. Second if they did tell anyone it would be the Supv and he might call mtc guys out. But more then likely you are going on a flight with crickets moving around. If you on your beloved -88 or -90 they will be in bin 1 right under you. The noise will make you think you are in the woods camping and if catch them use them for fishing
Theotokos
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BrettInLJ said:[ QUOTE ]
Then relase a mongoose to take care of the snakes. Follow that with a special breed of monkey that eats mongoose, what's special about this breed is that they die off after the mongoose supply is exhasted.
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Don't be silly. If there is a large predatory cat being freighted in the cargo hold, you could just release it and that would take care of the loose monkeys. Cricket problem solved! Chief pilot position, here I come.
And Kristie, yes I was being sarcastic.
Wouldn't it have been more witty if you had said, "And Kristie, no, I was not being sarcastic."
bob loblaw
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I would just tell the passengers that the crickets are part of homeland security and all other information is classified. That should keep the passengers quiet while they silently try to figure out how crickets have anything to do with homeland security.
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