It was a member of al-Ca’eta. Racial profiling may be too controversial too touch but just wait until somebody suggests species profiling: An escaped pet cat created a scare on a Belgian airliner, forcing the crew to turn back to Brussels 20 minutes into its journey. “We 100% support the decision made by the captain,” Geert Sciot, the airline’s communication vice-president, told the BBC. Nobody, he said, could tell what an agitated cat what might do in the circumstances, scrabbling around… [Samizdata.net]
No doubt the Terrorist Safety Administration will now ban cats from the passenger compartment, lest some future would-be terrorist be foiled by an assault kitty. (I’ve never yet met a cat that wasn’t more courageous than the average American.)
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