Heh,

I sometimes have to commute by small regional airline in a twin engine Cessna 9 seater. Always entertaining to be sitting next to the pilot and I learn something new every time. Like when we flew on Monday into a sleeting dawn and he sees another plane  taxiing to the runway. Turning to this young copilot trainee he remarks, " I can't believe they are going to fly that thing! Remember, never take the Caravan out in icing weather. That is how all the fatalities occur. Good plane but can't fly with ice."

Ok, Got it. Check. Never fly the Caravan. Thanks for that captain.

Anyways, where was I. Oh yes, back to the goats. So on the same trip the pilot tells us a story from last week. Seems a woman contracted the airline to fly her and her 9 dogs for the short haul to our airport. Not that unusual a request as there are some nutty women with too much of everything in our town. And the airline allows uncaged animals in their cabins. In fact there was a well behaved if nervous golden retriever on our flight. So when the women arrives at the airport for her charter, the dogs turn out to be 9 very skittish goats. On leashes with handlers. All bleating and hooves a sunder, they parade into the terminal and up to the ticket counter. Like they wouldn't notice that these were not dogs. Whereupon the airline agent begins a very comical discussion of how while the airlines allow pets, these must really be classified as livestock. And they had never before had to fly livestock and was not sure it would be allowed. Nevertheless management and the pilots had to come down and gently explain to the woman that they just could not fly uncaged goats and would have to cancel her charter. Which was a big disappointment all around.

I nodded in sympathy to the pilot, Saying he probably made a wise decision  pointing out that it would be hard to keep the goats in the seat belts. Drawing a parallel to the High Street story from the other week about the gator getting loose on the plane in Africa and causing the other passengers to rush forward and destabilize the plane.

So I guess America service sectors have not quite fallen to third world levels after all. But given another year of this down economy I bet that pilot and his airline will be glad to fly some rich bitches herd of goats to keep the lights on and food on the table.

"In case a goat dies, then it is either replaced from the market or from the bank depending upon the availability," Prema said.

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Scotty wrote:

"In case a goat dies, then it is either replaced from the market or from the bank depending upon the availability," Prema said.

Member FGIC.

Bravo!

financialgoatinsurancecompany.com and federalgoatinsurancecorporation are both available.  I'm torn.