Stardate 20010723.1304 (On Screen): In the movie "Patton", there's a scene in Sicily where a column is held up by a man with a cart on a bridge, because a couple of donkeys refused to move, The column is found by the Luftwaffe and strafed, and Patton discovers this and says "You let a column be stopped and strafed on account of a couple of jackasses?" Then he pulls out his .45 and shoots them both, orders them dumped over the side of the bridge, and gets the column moving again. I'm not sure if that actually happened, but it does put things into perspective: some things are more important than animals.
This story reports how a cat broke loose from its cage at the airport and climbed up into the wheel-well of a jet there, where it refused to budge for 8 hours despite being enticed with salmon, At the end of that time they actually removed some plates from the jet to force it out. They're working too hard; why didn't they just send someone to the nearest sporting goods store and buy a BB-pistol? BBs won't penetrate skin/fur but they will sting a lot, and if you hit a cat with one it's going to be out of there in an instant. (Boy, am I going to get hate mail about this!) (discuss)
