You've heard of snakes on a plane?

[Particle Man]

http://detnews.com/article/20100630/...to-gate-in-ATL

Maggots force plane back to gate in ATL
Kate Brumback / Associated Press
Atlanta -- Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate so the bin could be cleaned.

Passenger Donna Adamo said she noticed a couple of flies on the Monday flight when she got to her seat but didn't think much of it. Then, as the plane was taxiing, she heard a passenger behind her causing a commotion and refusing to take her seat.

"Then I heard the word 'maggot' and that kind of got everybody creeped out," she said. "All of a sudden, I felt somebody flick the back of my hair and on the front of me came a maggot, which I flicked off me."

A passenger had the container in a carry-on bag and brought it on Monday's flight heading from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., said US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher. The pilot announced that they were returning to the gate because of a "minor emergency on board" and the flight attendants told everyone to sit down and be calm, Adamo said.

"I felt like they were crawling all over me because it only takes one maggot to upset your world," she said. "And as they're telling us to stay calm and seated, I see a maggot looking back at me and I'm thinking, 'These are anaerobic, flesh-eating larvae that the flight attendants don't have to sit with.' "

A shaky cell phone video shot by Adamo as passengers deplaned shows a small white maggot wriggling across a seat.

Once the plane returned to the gate, the passengers were asked to get off, and a crew boarded to clean up the mess, Lehmacher said. The flight then continued on to Charlotte, where the plane was taken out of service and fumigated "out of an abundance of caution."

The passenger who brought the spoiled meat on board did not get back on the plane and was put on another flight, Lehmacher said. Other passengers were told their connecting flights in Charlotte would be held for them, said Adamo, who was traveling home to Syracuse, N.Y., and made her connection.

It's unclear why the spoiled meat was brought on the plane, and Adamo said she didn't notice a foul smell at any point.

"You can buy meat anywhere," Adamo said. "I don't know what special piece of meat was in Atlanta that needed to get to Charlotte, but it affected hundreds, if not thousands ... of passengers, and is a health risk."

Associated Press Online Video Producer Myra Lopez contributed to this report.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100630/...#ixzz0sOJkdLOK

It's all over the news here since Donna Adamo is a local news anchor out of Syracuse.

[z06boy]

Glad they kept that chit in Atlanta and didn't bring it to Charlotte. We've got enough already.

[Dave]

Who the heck thinks anerobic flesh eating larvae? the anerobic part doesn't even make sense. Fly larvae have spiracles

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Dave

Who the heck thinks anerobic flesh eating larvae? the anerobic part doesn't even make sense. Fly larvae have spiracles

that's funny because that's exactly what my wife and I were discussing last night when we saw the story

[the chi]

While they are rather disturbing looking, it seems blown way out of proportion here. And what moron would carry around spoiled meat, thats what I really want to know!

[sherri_chickie]

Originally Posted by the chi

While they are rather disturbing looking, it seems blown way out of proportion here. And what moron would carry around spoiled meat, thats what I really want to know!

This!

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by the chi

While they are rather disturbing looking, it seems blown way out of proportion here. And what moron would carry around spoiled meat, thats what I really want to know!

Better question: I can't even get through security without someone freaking out over my Sony eReader, GPS, and such but this person got through security with a container of spoiled freakin' MEAT?? WTF TSA?

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Better question: I can't even get through security without someone freaking out over my Sony eReader, GPS, and such but this person got through security with a container of spoiled freakin' MEAT?? WTF TSA?

If you have a hot chick in front of you or behind you, you can do what you want. I went through O'hare and saw my suitcase on the screen. It for real looked like a bomb was in there because of my various cables having wires going everywhere. Some hot spanish chick behind me gets searched like she had small pox in a bag when it was just a tape measure.

Atlanta TSAs seem to suck. I could go through that with a bugs bunny style fuze bomb that is lit and those sorry ass fuckers wouldn't notice.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Atlanta TSAs seem to suck. I could go through that with a bugs bunny style fuze bomb that is lit and those sorry ass fuckers wouldn't notice.

that seems to be the case with ALL ATL people - there was an emergency exit alarm set off by a kid pushing a door open and nobody reacted for almost 40 minutes the last time I was there.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

that seems to be the case with ALL ATL people - there was an emergency exit alarm set off by a kid pushing a door open and nobody reacted for almost 40 minutes the last time I was there.

Atlanta (the city itself) is a welfare basket case. If you are a sorry ass who can't get a job in the private sector as fry cook then they set you up with a nice cushy government job. The only thing that keeps Atlanta going is North Fulton and northern Atlanta. But those communities have gotten smart and are splitting from Atlanta.