Passenger Allegedly Beats Ferret to Death

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | February 8, 2003 | The Associated Press

[Willie Green]

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An airline passenger who was told he couldn't take his ferret on an airplane is accused of beating the animal to death in an airport restroom.

Police said the man had the ferret in a cooler on an American Airlines flight from New York.

Flight attendants realized he had the animal and told him he could not take it on his next flight.

He's accused of trying to flush the ferret down a toilet during a layover in St. Louis, then beating it to death.

An airline spokeswoman says some pets are allowed on flights, with advance approval.

[leadpenny]

Sick b*******.

[martin_fierro]

What a weasel.

[fella]

I've ever met a ferrret that I didn't like. This guy needs his butt kicked.

[Movemout]

How did you ferret out this article?

I think it would have been better if he just carried his cooler to the next gate and allowed the authorities to confiscate it. I don't see how you can get a ferret past TSA but they will nail you for a pen knife. Something is wrong with this picture.

[Paul Atreides]

accused of beating the animal to death in an airport restroom.

In the bathroom, beating the ferret. That sounds like what the Secret Service would have said about Bubba.

[FITZ]

Why did he kill it? It seems like it'd be easy enough to put a ferret in your shirt or up a sleeve and still get on the plane.

[Mr_Magoo]

Is that why ferret stopped posting???

[11th Earl of Mar]

I remember in college getting caught coming back from the Carribian with a Teranchula [sp?] spider.

I went into the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet.

It was very funny to watch. As soon as I flushed, he spread out his legs over the hole. I had to flush several times to get him to go down.

Every time I flushed his body would be sucked into the hole, but his legs would hold him and keep him from disappearing into the deep.

Eventually he gave out.

I always wondered what happened to the next person who used the toilet.

[martin_fierro]

In the bathroom, beating the ferret.

Ah, so that's what the kids are calling it these days. <|:)~

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[Hank Rearden]

Traficant always used to carry them on his head. He coulda tried that.

[skinkinthegrass]

Rikk-Tavi...Man, What a scum.

[ambrose]

ping

[skinkinthegrass]

ROFLPIMP :)

[Willie Green]

Is that why ferret stopped posting???

Good question.
I haven't seen ferret post in a long time.
And a search for his homepage comes up "No account on file."
I have absolutely no idea what happened to him.
But I do remember him posting quite frequently way, way back when.

[xJones]

Traficant always used to carry them on his head.

Yes, that had to have been the worst head rug ever. It was worse than the hair implants that Strom and others used to sport.

He's accused of trying to flush the ferret down a toilet during a layover in St. Louis, then beating it to death.

This moron tried to flush a living little weasel-type mammel down a toilet, probably got really scratched, and then beat the poor thing to death. Too bad he never took Daschle to the airport.

[Ecliptic]

That was a Mongoose.

[Diddle E. Squat]

LOL

[hchutch]

This is pretty bad. Animal cruelty charges are seriously warranted here, IMHO.

If he'll do that to a ferret what might he do to a human?