SCARABS ON A PLANE

An army of bugs fell out of the overhead compartments on an Air Transat plane that was about to take off Wednesday from London’s Gatwick airport to Vancouver. The cockroach-type insects up to an inch long fell into screaming passengers’ laps. One passenger said the critters scattered down the aisle of the Boeing A300. Flight attendants at first asked the passengers to squash them. But then everybody was taken off the plane so that pest control could come in and fumigate the aircraft. Then, after a seven-hour delay, the flight was canceled, apparently because of time limits on the crew’s work shift. British bug expert Alison Blackwell said the creatures were actually a type of scarab beetle.
* “Here they are… The Beetles!!”
* You’d think all the snakes on the plane would eat the bugs.
* I wouldn’t fly with scarabs. I saw “The Mummy”.
* In some countries, these could be in-flight snacks.
* The nightmares should stop by Labor Day.