Tabloid Travel Headline of the Day: ‘A Flying Monkey: Simian Smuggled Aboard Plane’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.08.07 | 10:31 AM ET
The headline comes from the New York Post. The monkey flew to the Big Apple from Lima, Peru via Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a passenger on Spirit Airlines. “Spirit,” as the airline opportunistically called the baby marmoset, was apparently the size of a person’s fist and hid under the man’s hat. “Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him,” said Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell. If the man didn’t know, then that’s a different story.
The monkey is apparently being held by animal control at LaGuardia Airport, and the Centers for Disease Control has expressed concern about possible health repercussions. The man claims to have bought the monkey on the streets of Lima, according to wcbstv.com, and says he didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to fly with the animal. It’s not clear if it was a pet or if he had other plans for, uh, Spirit.
Related on World Hum:
* Tabloid Travel Headline of the Day: ‘My 5-Star, High-Tech Hotel Hell’
* British Tabloid Travel Headline of the Day: ‘Riot at 30,000 Feet…Over Reclining Seat’
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
