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Crazy things can happen at airports as we all know from experience, and in the last couple of days these two quickly caught my attention.
Apparently a British man who was traveling to Spain for a vacation had just a wee bit too much to drink on his flight from Manchester to Palma de Mallorca. The man according to police was quite disheveled and “looked like a tramp”. He also, and only the British can say this correctly, “had a disagreeable smell”.
Upon arriving on the scene the police determined that the rather inebriated man was giving away thousands of euros (1 Euro = $1.40) and had no idea what he was doing. In fact, he was laughing while handing out the cash. The British tourist-to-be had recently received an inheritance and was passing out the $72,285 in CASH that he had with him.
After being taken into custody it didn’t take the Spanish authorities long to convince the man to put his wallet away and board a flight back home.
Then there’s the case of the mating turtles at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The airport is located on the south shore of the New York City Borough of Queens, adjacent to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. This morning air traveler’s patience was tested because scores of turtles decided to meander across one of the airport’s runways. The initial three turtles spotted eventually grew to a total of 78.
The FAA spokesman said that “apparently, this is something the tower has experienced before. I guess it’s the season for spawning.” The spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which operates JFK, La Guardia and Newark airports, said “presumably, all these turtles were feeling amorous.”
The FAA ceased flight operations at JFK for 12 minutes just before 9 a.m. this morning and actually shut down the runway after pilots reported massive numbers of turtles, according to the Associated Press. It took about 35 minutes for the turtles, each of which weighs two to three pounds and measures about eight inches in length, to be gathered up.
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