it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a LEG?

“Dead stowaway found after leg lands in N.Y. yard
Last Updated Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:25:40 EDT
CBC News
Authorities found the body of a stowaway in the wheel well of a South African Airways jet on Tuesday after a leg fell into the backyard of a Long Island home.

The leg fell from the jet when it lowered its landing gear as it was approaching New York's JFK Airport, said police.

It landed on the roof of a Long Island garage and bounced into the backyard of a home. A woman living there discovered the leg, which had a sneaker on the foot.

Officials found more remains in the jet's wheel well after it landed.

The New York-bound flight had made one stop in Senegal after leaving Johannesburg.



http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/07/plane-stowaway050607.html”

“Well, you're a leg up on this bunch, Maple!”

“I scooped ya

Good thread title though.”

“It makes you wonder how many successful attempts to enter the US in the wheelwells of planes are made every year. This isn't the first story of this happening”

“Jet Lag. or Jet Leg. I suppose it's all in the pronunciation depending upon where you live.......”

“LOL bit

very true hyway. trying to survie -80* and altude(sp) change..
must have been very hard up.”

“the thought the lady hearing the THUMP and then found the leg made me laugh at first.”

“... and on the last leg of the flight!”

“This story has legs.”

“Maybe she can cook it like a leg of lamb!

Leg of man!”

“groan”

“Was his name Legolas?


Or legless?”

“ok people, legs not go overboard with this.”

“Ya think maybe he had help getting into the wheel well? A leg up maybe?”

“instead of moon over broadway
its legs of broadway?
get it, over the city on NYC

now thats funny”

“I think this story gives a new meaning to the Broadway term of......

Break a leg.....”

“Leg it go already.”

“Lego my Eggo !”

“border patrol was working hard that day”

“I wouldn't want to clean up the wheel well!!”

“???? New ZZ Top song?”

“He got tire'd and just fell apart”

“Hows about those Cubans that floated here in a make shift boat made out of an old taxi cab body? Some were legal immigrants and stayed and the others were sent back.

This "body part" guy could not have been too smart if he didn't realize you can't breathe at the altitudes the planes fly at.”

“Unfortunately alot of those people are from third world countries....and they don't have the knowledge that they can't breath up there...and that it's very very cold.

Every year, there's a few stories of stowaways getting crushed, freezing or falling out of a landing gear compartment.”

“stanlee, oh yeah, I forgot about the cold.

Every time I pass by huge WA yards filled with ship containers, I wonder if there are people closed up in there, dying.”

“LH, I know what you mean. Almost everyday I inline skate or bike pass a ship yard filled with those containers.....I can't help but wonder if there's people in one/some of them....”

“http://www.koat.com/news/13764753/detail.html?cnn=yes

Anyone lose a pair of legs with artificial knees?”