This has got to be a Joke - SOAP for real?
This is beyond good timing, except for the pilot of course:
Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane
Friday, June 02, 2006
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane’s instrument panel — a 4 1/2-foot black snake....While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.
“They came back and asked what my problem was. I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared me in.”
“There was no way I was letting that thing go. It coiled all around my arm, and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and started pulling,” Coles said.
The next step was to radio for emergency landing clearance.
TOWER: Please confirm reason for emergency landing clearance
PILOT: Snakes on a Muthaf***ing plane!!!
