A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage.
Two cheetahs were being flown in the cargo area of a Boeing 757 passenger flight from Portland, Ore., to Atlanta on Thursday when one escaped from its cage, Delta spokeswoman Betsy Talton said Friday.
"They told us a large animal had gotten out of a container in the cargo hold and they were having to send someone to tranquilize it," said one passenger, Lee Sentell of Montgomery, Ala.
He said luggage was delayed, but baggage handlers promised to send his bags to him in Alabama. eventually
The good news for passengers: The escaped cheetah didn't lose damage any of their luggage.
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HUMAN rights activist Bianca Jagger has offered the finder of a 200,000 euros ($373,100) ring she lost in Salzburg earlier this year a compromise in the row over a reward, her lawyer said today.
Jagger has so far refused to pay the man, Reinhard Ringler, the 10,000 ($18,650) reward he is entitled to under Austrian law because of the "long delay" before handing the ring in to police.
In Austria, finders are entitled to five per cent of the value of the recovered object.
However, "in a gesture to settle the matter", the ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger had agreed to pay 9000 ($16,800) of the money to Amnesty International and the other 1000 ($1850) to Mr Ringler's daughter, Jagger's lawyer Gabriel Lansky said.
From Jagger's point of view, Mr Ringler "is not entitled to a reward at all because he only handed the ring in after a long delay" - eight days after the loss was reported in the media.
Mr Ringler claims he initially thought the ring was a key ring of little value and gave it to his 13-year-old daughter.
Only when he heard how valuable it was did he handed it in to the police.
Jagger had reported the platinum-and-aquamarine ring, which she had designed herself, was lost in the street on August 22 while she was attending the annual Salzburg music festival.
Mr Ringler's lawyer Paul Kreuzberger said he had not yet been informed of Jagger's offer.
"I assume, however, that Mr Ringler will not accept the offer," the lawyer said.
Last month, Mr Ringler argued it was up to him to decide what to do with the reward.
Another win for lawfare jihad
A Southern California county will allow jailed Muslim women to wear headscarves after settling a lawsuit with a woman who claims that deputies violated her religious freedom by making her remove her hijab.
The settlement agreement signed by the county last week and released Monday specifies that Muslim women must be provided a private area to remove their headscarves after arrest and must be provided with county-issued headscarves to cover themselves when they are in the presence of men.
The county, which did not admit wrongdoing, will also pay $45,000 in damages. Plaintiff Jameelah Medina will get $10,000 after subtracting attorney fees, said Hector Villagra, director of the Orange County office of the American Civil Liberties Union.
A spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department did not immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press.
Medina, 30, was arrested in December 2005 in Pomona for having an invalid train pass. She spent 12 hours in jail but was never prosecuted.
Medina, a business trainer who lives in Rialto, said that during processing she was forced to remove her headscarf in the presence of a male deputy even though she explained that to do so violated her religious beliefs.
"I felt exposed and vulnerable," she said. "I don't think I could have felt more naked even if I had no clothes on."
Medina and her attorneys said the settlement was important because it addressed the county's concerns about safety while respecting Muslims' religious beliefs.
"We had a concern about religious rights and they had a concern about safety. We met halfway to ensure that nothing like this will ever happen again," Villagra said.
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A 29 year old African American "Muslim-American" "Oprah magazine Leader of the Future, domestically hatched moonbat, arrested for slugging (free riding) on a train (breaking the law), settles out of court (thank you ACLU) and walks away with $45,000. in taxpayer's dollars.
What a road we are now traveling. I spent a few minutes scanning the Claremont University and Grad school website, then began to gag. If you'd like to send a donation HERE is the link. Stock transfers arranged through Saloman Smith Barney.
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The scarves are to cover the hair (thi sight of which makes Muslim males lose all self-control), so the solution is simple. Shave their heads. Also simplifies hygiene and wrecks the homes of head lice.
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I've seen the county-issued headscarves. They're in a dispenser in most restrooms
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What happens after the first muslim american woman prisoner is strangled with her own head scarf by another prisoner, a little upset about the special treatment? Come to think of it, who cares?
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I'm still waiting for the Rasta's to claim they need government supplied pot in order to satisfy their religious needs. The only reason I can figure for them not having made such a request is they are too stoned to notice all the crazy shit the Muslims in prison are asking for.
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Start paying out these "settlements" to these African American "Muslim-American" "Oprah magazine Leader of the Future, "muslims of convenience" in iranian piasters. Let 'em see how well they spend at the prison commissary...
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this is totally wrong, where are we ,England, Canada!
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