SAS flight makes emergency landing when a live mouse pops out of a passenger's meal
Carla Sinclair / 10:51 am PT Fri Sep 20, 2024
While no one expects much from airplane food, one dish caused a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flight to make an emergency landing when a live mouse scuttled out of the meal.
"Believe it or not. A lady next to me … opened her food and a mouse jumped out," wrote passenger Jarle Borrestad on Facebook, via The Guardian.
The flight, heading to Malaga from Oslo on Wednesday, made a pitstop in Copenhagen, where passengers switched planes.
"This is something that happens extremely rarely," said a spokesperson for SAS. "We have established procedures for such situations, which also include a review with our suppliers to ensure this does not happen again."
From Aviation Direct:
The crew informed passengers via loudspeaker that there was a safety risk and that the flight was being diverted. A spokesperson for SAS confirmed that this was standard procedure when a pest is discovered on board. The plane landed safely in Copenhagen and the passengers reached their destination in Malaga two and a half hours late.
Just another reason to pack a sack lunch before boarding any future flights.
Previously: Black mold on Delta Air Lines meal sickens passengers — and prompts emergency landing
Hidden USB hub turns ordinary keyboard into Doom console
Mark Frauenfelder / 9:17 am PT Fri Sep 20, 2024
DOOM Keeb/John Park/Adafruit
The Adafruit KB2040 – RP2040 Kee Boar Driver is a development board designed specifically for custom mechanical keyboard projects ("keeb" builds). It uses a Raspberry Pi microcontroller chip and can be programmed with CircuitPython, MicroPython, or C/C++. It's only $8.95.
Our friend John Park used one to create a keyboard that runs Doom when you press a special key. Watch the video here.
Here's the code, and here are the build notes.
Previously:
• I put some Doom in your Doom so you can Doom while you Doom
• How to power your calculator with potatoes so you can play DOOM
• Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159
Chinese zoo paints dogs to look like pandas (video)
Allan Rose Hill / 8:52 am PT Fri Sep 20, 2024
In what seems to be a trend, another zoo China is exhibiting dogs disguised as pandas. A visitor to the zoo in southern Guangdong province posted a video of the cute creatures on the Douyin social media platform and it went viral. See below.
Apparently there is a sign near their enclosure that reads (translated): "We are called Panda Dogs, a pet dog that looks like a panda, dyed and dressed up by Chow Chow. We are gentle, smart, friendly, cute and adorable!"
According to zoo management, they're not trying to fool guest, just delight them.
"You can see by our name, we are 'Strange Animals and Cute Pets Paradise,'" a spokesperson told Sichuan Observation. "These are Chow Chow dogs being painted (as pandas), as this is part of our specialties."
Previously:
• Chinese zoo dyed dogs to look like pandas
• The pandas in this Chinese animal cafe are actually dogs in disguise
It takes a village, but not a village idiot, warns the Lincoln Project (video)
Carla Sinclair / 8:50 am PT Fri Sep 20, 2024
The Lincoln Project keeps it real simple today in its call to get out and vote in November. "Once, every village had an idiot. It took MAGA to make one a leader," reads a caption on X along with a video of their latest ad.
And the title of the ad is even simpler: The Village Idiot.
You don't even need to see the ad to know what this is about. But in case you need a Friday chuckle, via a bit of gallows humor, keep going.
"There's an old saying: 'It takes a village… But in every village, there's the same risk: the village idiot," warns a narrator as we see Donald Trump in all of his buffoonery. "And the one thing you never do is let the village idiot call the shots."
"We did it once," the ad ominously reminds us. "We can't do it again." (See video below.)
As one commenter on X responded, "Republicans thought Trump would be their useful idiot, so they promoted him in the beginning and kept him propped up. To thank them, he burned the party to the ground. Good job GOP!"
Previously: • Donald Trump's deep-rooted mommy issues exposed in new Lincoln Project "Bad Blood" ad (video)
• Lincoln Project: "law and order" president is the "most corrupt president in US history"
• New Lincoln project ad says Trump is a "weak, shaky, unfit president"
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