Runaway Poodle Causes Flight Delays

[bishopx]

Loose Poodle Delays Fights at Boston Airport

 

Cramped after a Saturday night flight from Detroit, Choochy the poodle broke free after her plane landed at Boston's Logan Airport and for the next 17 hours, the tiny white fugitive managed to elude nearly a dozen Massport employees and State Police, holding up runway traffic as she cavorted on the tarmac.

 

Gideon Lester, a passenger on a delayed US Airways flight to LaGuardia in New York, saw the event unfold. "I'm sitting on a plane at Logan waiting to take off. The runway had been closed because a stray dog, looks like a poodle, is running around the tarmac."

 

Her romp ended yesterday afternoon when she was finally coaxed into custody, but not before she managed to delay at least eight flights for about 20 minutes each, according to Phil Orlandella, a Massport spokesman, who said the pup "did create a little havoc."

 

The poodle "seemed to be having a good time," said Lester, artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. "They looked like they were running cattle." His fellow passengers were mostly amused rather than annoyed by the runaway, he said, but were "a little incredulous that it would take so many men so many hours to catch this little dog."

 

"Obviously, she's hungry and she's afraid," Orlandella said earlier in the day as employees chased Choochy around the runways. A safe but tired Choochy was reunited with her family, who live in Revere. Orlandella would not release the name of her family.

Edited December 31, 2008 by bishopx

[garsk]

i like cats more, and well, how much money was wasted looking for the thing?

[Audio of Being]

runover the damn dog, they are useless and i hate them, getting to my destination comes 1st.

[RicardoObviouso]

i'm sure they would have, if not for the associated risk of a deceased dog's shredded body parts causing some sort of malfunction during your desperately desired on-time flight.

[Lauren]

not to mention how bad that looks on them. not that it matters because people will still fly, but a little humanity goes along way.

[bishopx]

Personally, I'm glad they caught the thing, but someone should have been held responsible for the pet getting free.

[Azalroth]

Nothing like a dog to go through your turbine as you go to take off...ruining fans and who knows what else inside the engine, sending the rushing passengers into the trees/ground after the runway.

 

Patience is a virtue.

[Doormat]

Dog, Turbine, Youtube, Profit.

[bishopx]

Sweet jesus, I just pissed myself. Shit Doormat, you're a funny fucker.

 

My cousin, who was one of those who had to circle the airport for 35 mins...said someone should have tazered the fucker.