Crocodiles On A Plane

[BishopMVP]

From the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a.k.a. the Florida of Africa. Crocodile on plane kills 19 passengers | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/crocodile-on-a-plane-kills-19/story-e6frfq80-1225942045322) A STOWAWAY crocodile on a flight escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stampede that caused the flight to crash, killing 19 passengers and crew.
Croc caused plane crash, says survivor (http://player.video.news.com.au/news/?1622451714)


A plane crash in the Congo that killed 20 people could have been caused by an escaped crocodile.



The croc had been hidden in a passenger's sports bag - allegedly with plans to sell it - but it tore loose and ran amok, sparking panic.A stampede of terrified passengers caused the small aircraft to lose balance and tip over in mid-air during an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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"The crocodile survived the crash before being cut up with a machete."

[stevew]

DRC is more like the Alabama of africa IMO.

[EagleFan]

Thought there was a new movie coming out...

[Lathum]

Truth is stranger than fiction

[Greyroofoo]

Enough is enough! I have had it with this motherf***ing croc on this motherf***ing plane!

[Greyroofoo]

But yeah, not only does having the croc survive the crash but the death by machete would be a great ending to an action movie. Especially if it was killed by a survivor of the crash.

[BishopMVP]

DRC is more like the Alabama of africa IMO.I'll make fun of Alabama too (sorry Greyroofoo - nothing personal), but it doesn't seem to produce the amount of WTF? stories that Florida does (maybe just due to population, I haven't seen any scientific studies done). Even for Africa, it seems the particularly disturbing and insane stories come from the Congo, even stretching back to the King Leopold/Heart of Darkness days. Witch doctors killing albinos and grinding them up as a sexual stimulant? DRC. Adult men having sex with infants because they think having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS? the Congo. The leader of a country with few paved roads and 2 airports starting a space program, 7 different countries fighting or publicly funding troops fighting in a country? Yup, the Congo. etc, etc - I know there have been more where I'll start reading, go wtf? and sure enough the byline is Kinshasa.

[stevew]

Climbin in your window. Snatchin your people up?

[stevew]

regardless, I agree with you on the Congo being fucked up part.

[EagleFan]

Climbin in your window. Snatchin your people up?

great, I had gotten that song out of my head...

[whomario]

so was it a big sports bag or a small crocodile ? :confused:

[Logan]

I'm more amazed that the Congo has a plane than the crocodile causing a crash.

[RomaGoth]

Where is S. Jackson when you need him.

[Marc Vaughan]

So lets get this right - flying from America to England I'm not allowed to bring on a small bottle containing my contact lense solution as its a 'risk' ... but in the Congo you're allowed to bring your crocodile on board so long as its kept sensibly within its bag? .... what did he do at customs, explain it was a seeing eye crocodile and he needed to keep it with him? ....

PS - Is it bad that I felt sorry for the crocodile when I read it'd been killed at the end of the story ... ;)

[Greyroofoo]

Where is S. Jackson when you need him.

Probably hiding, according to Wikipedia (and it's never wrong) S. Jackson had a clause in his contract for SoaP that prevented him from being near any snake while filming.

[RomaGoth]

Probably hiding, according to Wikipedia (and it's never wrong) S. Jackson had a clause in his contract for SoaP that prevented him from being near any snake while filming.

I was going to call you a liar until I saw that Wikipedia was your source. Carry on sir.

[molson]

Probably hiding, according to Wikipedia (and it's never wrong) S. Jackson had a clause in his contract for SoaP that prevented him from being near any snake while filming.

LOL - 25 feet in fact.

But what happens if a snake breaks a contract?

[molson]

Oh ya, and did you know that there's the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Congo (two totally different countries). The former used to be Zaire, that's the big one. The other one might actually have more crocodiles though.

[Ksyrup]

LOL - 25 feet in fact.

But what happens if a snake breaks a contract?

They have to pay him damagesssssssss.

[stevew]

When Billy Joel refers to the "Belgians in the Congo" in his magnum opus "We Didn't Start the Fire", is he referring to The DRC or to The Congo

[molson]

When Billy Joel refers to the "Belgians in the Congo" in his magnum opus "We Didn't Start the Fire", is he referring to The DRC or to The Congo

That would be the big one, Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, and the "Belgian Congo".

What I want to know is what kind of asshole upstart country names itself the same thing as another, already existing country?

[stevew]

I just wanted to say "magnum opus". Africa has some fucked up geography. You have the gold coast near the Ivory Coast. Equatorial Guinea and regular guinea.

[BishopMVP]

When Billy Joel refers to the "Belgians in the Congo" in his magnum opus "We Didn't Start the Fire", is he referring to The DRC or to The CongoDRC is the big one (12th in size, 18th in population in the world), RoC is the small one. I use The Congo to refer to the DRC but I suppose it could refer to both, or even the entire Congo river basin area including Uganda, northern Angola and Gabon.

[Izulde]

I just wanted to say "magnum opus". Africa has some fucked up geography. You have the gold coast near the Ivory Coast. Equatorial Guinea and regular guinea.

That's not even counting the stupidity of Europeans in drawing country borders in Africa.

[stevew]

Word izulde

We know you two tribes fuckin hate each other but surely you can put these multigenerational differences aside and form a nation.

Oh, and fuck your infrastructure.