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snuggledick@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

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Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

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Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
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    deleted by creator

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      Alright mister

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    The penguin is okay, that’s the only thing important here.

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      First thing I checked the article for.

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      And that’s why I came here before potentially seeing something that would make me sad in the article.

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    Should have tariffed him better

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Apparently the penguin wanted a say in whether or not it was being deported

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      The birds are fighting back

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    gif

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    – FOR THE GREENLAND, MOTHERFUCKERS!
    – We’re not Americans. It’s Africa…
    – AGAINST THE APARTHEID, MOTHERFUCKERS!
    – We don’t have apartheid anymore…
    – JUST FUCK YOU, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

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    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      – TAKE ELON BACK RIGHT NOW, MOTHERFUCKERS

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    See, penguins were never meant to fly

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      And he was drunk!

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    1000052166

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    The penguin, which had been placed in the box and on the lap of a passenger, slid off and knocked the pilot’s controls just after take-off from **Bird Island **

    take-off from **Bird Island **

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    The authority said that “the lack of secure containment for the penguin” was responsible for creating the “dangerous situation”.Hahaha

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    I’m going to be a pedant, and point out it was an unsecured box, with a penguin in it, which knocked the controls.

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      Weird way to say the on-board computer is Linux based, but ok. Link to the CVE?

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        It was just shitty drivers.

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        (CVE-2016-5195)

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      Yeah but would the box have slipped without the penguin in it? We need more penguin box experiments I think.

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        Could this be a Schroedinger’s penguin situation?

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      Yeah but unsecured box doesn’t generate clicks

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    So was it Kowalski, Rico, Skipper, or Private?

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    Is it bad that my immediate thought was “Is the penguin okay?”

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      If it is bad, I don’t wanna be good. Poor penguin

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    “Ooh, look, a button!”

    “Huh? Private, don’t!!!”

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    And Grounded Linux was born on this day

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    they were probably trying to steal the penguin… so they got what they deserve

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      in a box for pets, rather than proper cage conservationist use, definitely stealing it.

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