Oh Flight Attendant, There’s a Rat Crawling Up My Leg

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  04.06.06 | 5:19 PM ET

Gridskipper has the gory details on the rodent, the LA-NYC American Airlines flight, and the yelping.



1 Comment for Oh Flight Attendant, There’s a Rat Crawling Up My Leg

Jane B. 04.07.06 | 1:47 PM ET

About a dozen years ago, I got an angry call from my ex.  I’d put my pet-loving daughter on a plane to visit the inlaws.

Apparently, she’d smuggled her gerbil onboard in the sleeve of her snow jacket and it got loose on board.  My ex, who thought I was in on this escapade, got quite a lengthy dressing down when he met her at the airport.  There is a god:)

I asked my daughter - who knew pets weren’t allowed - what happened. She said she thought her gerbil would stay put in her sleeve, but then she got warm and took her jacket off, whereupon Henry scampered away. I gathered he caused quite a commotion.  Frankly, I would have been screaming, too, with a rodent on the loose and 3 hours to go to Seattle. Ah, well…

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