Jet’s falling slide gets ‘whodathunkit’ follow-up [News of the Weird] – Reading Eagle
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The latest plane failure story — about the emergency slide that fell off a Boeing 767 leaving JFK Airport last week — gets a “whodathunkit” follow-up, the New York Post reported. On April 28, the slide washed up right in front of the beachside home in Belle Harbor, Queens, of Jake Bissell-Linsk, who happens to be the attorney who filed a federal lawsuit against Boeing after the Alaska Airlines door blowout in January. Belle Harbor is about 6 miles southeast of JFK.
“I didn’t want to touch it, but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” Bissell-Linsk said.
He said a Delta Airlines crew arrived a few hours later and threw the slide into the back of a truck.
“We haven’t decided if the slide is relevant to our case,” he noted.
The large animals are restless lately. On April 28, four zebras made a break for it from a trailer at a highway exit in Washington State, The New York Times reported. Kristine Keltgen was hauling them to her petting zoo in Anaconda, Mont., when the latch on the trailer became loose and the zebras “bolted out.” Police officers and volunteers headed up the effort to corral them, but David Danton of Mount Vernon, Wash., was a ringer: Danton is a former rodeo clown and bullfighter. He and his wife happened to be driving by and stopped to help.
“It was kind of divine intervention,” Danton’s wife said.
Danton built a makeshift chute leading to a horse pen on a nearby farm.
“It’s just about being quiet, working them gentle and not getting excited,” he said.
As of May 2, one of the zebras was still on the lam, but Keltgen was sure it would be found.
Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Phoenix on April 25 were delayed by about 90 minutes after their flight had to make an unplanned stop in Oklahoma City, Simple Flying reported. While AA’s official statement called the problem a “mechanical issue,” social media reports indicated that the toilets became clogged, and the plane had to land for maintenance.
One traveler posted: “I was on this flight. Apparently, the lavatory tanks were not emptied from the previous LAX to DCA flight the night before.”
Fujikawaguchiko, Japan, “is a town built on tourism,” said Michie Motomochi, the owner of a cafe in the city. So it says a lot that the town began constructing a large black screen on a stretch of sidewalk that is a favorite spot for viewing and photographing Mount Fuji in the distance. The Associated Press reported that construction began on April 30; the screen will be 8 feet high and 65 feet long.
“I welcome many visitors,” Motomochi said, “… but there are many things about their manners that are worrying,” such as littering, crossing the road in traffic, ignoring traffic lights and trespassing.
The town has reportedly tried other tactics — signs in multiple languages and security guards — to no avail.
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