Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire.
If there’s one thing we here at Odd News hate, it’s pigeons. Sure, those who have the patience to train them to carry messages might find them to be beautiful and intelligent creatures, but we’re talking about people who don’t know that a cell phone will do the same thing without all the droppings. On the other hand, pigeons might actually be getting smarter, since a pair in Minneapolis decided to fly to Madison, but instead of taking flight, they took a flight, and now Delta Airlines is a pigeon carrier.
The pigeons attempted a coo aboard the flight. (Public Domain)
This all started on Delta Flight 2348, a regularly scheduled flight from Minnesota to Wisconsin. The plane boarded, and then a pigeon started flying about the cabin before the seatbelt light was turned off, a big no-no. It returned to the gate, where the ground crew got rid of the winged menace. What a crazy story, right? As the plane taxied back out to the runway, however, it got even crazier, as a second pigeon decided to take off before it took off. Once again, the plane returned, and the crew removed it from the plane.
While the initial encounter wasn’t captured for posterity, a passenger, hysterically named Tom Caw, posted the flight of the second pigeon online. The footage shows a gentleman trying to catch the avian interloper with his jacket, which unsurprisingly didn’t work. “Pilot said when he radioed the control tower about us coming back due to a pigeon, the guy said that was a first for him,” Caw reported on Instagram. “Pilot told him it was the second time for him—the first being half an hour earlier.”
ABC News reported that Delta issued an apology, stating that the flight was delayed by 56 minutes and thanking the crew and those on board for dealing with the foul fowls. This whole thing actually begs several questions. First, how did multiple birds get on the plane in the first place? Did they have RealID, because those are a lot of points of identification for pigeons to have. And did they arrive together, or was the door just open for hours for any creature to board, leave, and bring a friend back?
Most importantly, if you were a passenger on the plane, would you have trusted Delta after the second pigeon? Who knows what could’ve been next? Probably a third pigeon! We’re not naming names, but there are plenty of other spirited airlines over all the frontiers of the country, especially in the southern and western parts, that we’d expect this from. But not Delta.
This article is based on fully factual news, but if we got it wrong, blame these guys, we’re just here to make it funny.
